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jmowreader

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20. Nowadays, any team above 6-5 HAS to go to a bowl

Reply to Hoyt (Reply #14)

Sun Dec 2, 2018, 10:30 PM

Dec 2018

There are 41 bowls, so you need 82 teams. There are 130 schools in the Football Bowl Subdivision. We're past the point where you HAVE to win more than half your games to go to a bowl.

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Nothing dates you like NCAA bowl names [View all] Recursion Dec 2018 OP

You are not alone genxlib Dec 2018 #1

Everything is named after a corporation now. Ohiogal Dec 2018 #2

I still liked the old days better when New years Day was the football highlight brewens Dec 2018 #3

Thank you TEB Dec 2018 #4

The "Outback Bowl"? What, is this Australia? hlthe2b Dec 2018 #5

Like the Tangerine Bowl kydo Dec 2018 #6

It's now the "VRBO Bowl", after a timeshare company Recursion Dec 2018 #7

We were both wrong kydo Dec 2018 #10

Remember the Blue-Gray Game? Sneederbunk Dec 2018 #8

Particularly the year when the "grays" were entirely African American? Recursion Dec 2018 #9

YES! When my dad was in the Air Force kydo Dec 2018 #11

OMG: Gunter, Columbus, and Meridian: the Pork Triangle Recursion Dec 2018 #12

And Maxwell AFB kydo Dec 2018 #13

Remember when it was a big deal to go to the Bluebonnet Bowl. Hoyt Dec 2018 #14

Nowadays, any team above 6-5 HAS to go to a bowl jmowreader Dec 2018 #20

The Hall of Fame Bowl isn't played at Legion Field anymore either. House of Roberts Dec 2018 #15

If they've changed the field, the name, the sponsor, and the seeding Recursion Dec 2018 #16

Depends on what changed first, I reckon. House of Roberts Dec 2018 #18

What there is no more whistler162 Dec 2018 #17

I saw today that one of my schools will be in the Cheez-it Bowl petronius Dec 2018 #19