The Big 5, the Mountain West, and NDSU

[RonMexico]

you see the crowd? I bet there were all of 6K there, so all of Western Wyoming made it

6,000 people...Wow...bet that was an incredible environment....much better than 17,000 and a natty on the line. I mean they were playing for the Idaho Potato Harvest Bowl championship in front of 6,000 people. That's something to tell the grand-kids about.

[RonMexico]

The are FBS

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And their teams have about as good a chance of playing in the FBS title game as NDSU currently does.

[westnodak93bison]

And their teams have about as good a chance of playing in the FBS title game as NDSU currently does.

But they are fbs

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[Bisonator98]

UCF goes 13-0 and wins the Chic-Fil-A Peach Bowl, beating a team that beat both Georgia and Alabama and gets to put this in their trophy case:

Meanwhile 2 teams from the SEC with those losses to Auburn get to play for the Championship again. The CFP is a sham.

[CalBison97]

UCF goes 13-0 and wins the Chic-Fil-A Peach Bowl, beating a team that beat both Georgia and Alabama and gets to put this in their trophy case:

Meanwhile 2 teams from the SEC with those losses to Auburn get to play for the Championship again. The CFP is a sham.

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[IndyBison]

Talked to a friend of mine who lives in Atlanta and is involved with game operations. He was around the teams all week and at the game. He said UCF was all in for the game while Auburn was going through the motions. They were less than enthused about returning to the site where they lost the conference championship a couple weeks earlier. The UCF section was full and the Auburn section had several open sections of seats. The school/conference bought up several seats so it would remain a sellout. Even with that, Auburn was close to tying the game at the end. He's a very knowledgeable football coach and he guessed UCF would maybe be in the middle of the SEC at best. In his opinion they had no business being in the playoff.

This doesn't say a lot about the current bowl system either. That was a NYE6 bowl and a top SEC team wasn't overly excited playing in it. The more players who bow out of playing in major bowl games also lessens their value. I only heard of a couple this year, but I'm sure there were more.

[ZHerd]

Talked to a friend of mine who lives in Atlanta and is involved with game operations. He was around the teams all week and at the game. He said UCF was all in for the game while Auburn was going through the motions. They were less than enthused about returning to the site where they lost the conference championship a couple weeks earlier. The UCF section was full and the Auburn section had several open sections of seats. The school/conference bought up several seats so it would remain a sellout. Even with that, Auburn was close to tying the game at the end. He's a very knowledgeable football coach and he guessed UCF would maybe be in the middle of the SEC at best. In his opinion they had no business being in the playoff.

This doesn't say a lot about the current bowl system either. That was a NYE6 bowl and a top SEC team wasn't overly excited playing in it. The more players who bow out of playing in major bowl games also lessens their value. I only heard of a couple this year, but I'm sure there were more.

That kind of conjecture, accurate or not, is, or at least should be completely worthless. Even an 8 team playoff would make a huge difference. These things need to be proven in playoffs, not by conjecture and/or computers

[El_Chapo]

Mountain West is BACK!!
Mountain West “aggressively exploring” options to play 8-game fall season, culminating w/Dec. 19 MW title game, sources told

@Stadium

. This would allow league to be eligible for NY6 bowls. Not all schools might play w/Hawaii, Fresno & Air Force biggest unknowns for full season

[El_Chapo]

Could MWC replace NDSU for 1 year waiver to fill in for (hawaii, fresno or air force?)

[kab1one]

Could MWC replace NDSU for 1 year waiver to fill in for (hawaii, fresno or air force?)

I will give you credit.

You aren't a quitter.