MDZip Posted November 6, 2008 Report Share Posted November 6, 2008 This actually could be a year in which the MAC could pick up a few extra bowl bids. I did a little fun analysis on the conference tie-ins and likely bowl participants. I counted all of the conference tie-ins to both the BCS games and others. I came up with the following totals (there are a few things that throw it off like a Big 12/Big East/ND all in one bowl in a few places, a non-BCS school (or two) making a BCS bowl, Notre Dame and Navy by themselves), but in general looking at the current standings here is what I see (also remember that 6-6 teams are not automatically in, 7-5 teams have to go first):I took conferences that have a few 4-4 and 4-5 teams and gave them one extra place but not more than that.Conference Bowls Eligibile_teams (projected solely by me )ACC - 9 - I think they get all ninePAC-10 - 7 - I think they get only 6SEC - 9 - I think 8Big 12 - 9 - I think 8Big Ten - 9 - Only 7 and this is pretty real, the 8th and 9th (Indiana and Purdue) are 3-6 and so will be at the bottom of the heap even if one wins 3 straight games and they both can't because they play each otherBig East - 6, I think they get them allMAC - 3 - already have three eligible and can get to five easily and probably 6 (the winner of us and Buffalo is bowl eligible - pretty amazing)WAC - 3 - probably will have 4 eligible, maybe 5MWC - 4 - probably just get the 4C-USA - 6 - may only get 4Sun Belt - 1 - probably have 2A few teams will sneak in at 6-6 that I haven't accounted for but at the moment, it looks like there could be up to five openings, so there is a chance for a lot of MAC teams if we can just pull it off (c'mon lower MAC teams do it for the good of the conference ).Of course you also have to worry about not playing your own conference and its likely the three bowls we have against the Big 10, C-USA and Big East, two of them will be a problem because the B-10 and C-USA will have trouble filling them so we can't get those.Other random observations:The Zips own the only two victories over the MAC West by the MAC East at this point. Thanks goodness for the scheduling gods there. Buffalo drew Central and Western.We scored 47 points against a team that held Michigan to 10.How great is it that we finish off the Rubber Bowl with a game that really means something and lucky we got this game at home!Do you think Andre Jones will go to class this week? :)Here's to bowl eligibility, a MAC championship and a really cool bowl game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZachTheZip Posted November 6, 2008 Report Share Posted November 6, 2008 Navy has already accepted an invite to play in the Eaglebank bowl in D.C. If the ACC gets 9 teams eligible, that's one less bowl for the MAC (we had the back-up agreement). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovezips Posted November 6, 2008 Report Share Posted November 6, 2008 And Notre Dame is going to take a bowl as well.The only way we go bowling I think is if we win the MAC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flipthezip Posted November 6, 2008 Report Share Posted November 6, 2008 Don't we need to win 2 more games to be bowl eligible. A win next week makes us 6-4 and up on Buffalo to win the east. We could lose the last 2 weeks and with Buffalo and BG losses in any of their last 2 games we would be the east champ @ 6-6. A loss in Detroit would make us 6-7 and staying home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akronad Posted November 7, 2008 Report Share Posted November 7, 2008 You are correct. the same thing happened to the "Sweaters" last year.So we need to win 2 of the last 3 to truly be bowl eligible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Adams Posted November 7, 2008 Report Share Posted November 7, 2008 Don't we need to win 2 more games to be bowl eligible. A win next week makes us 6-4 and up on Buffalo to win the east. We could lose the last 2 weeks and with Buffalo and BG losses in any of their last 2 games we would be the east champ @ 6-6. A loss in Detroit would make us 6-7 and staying home. first team in the east to 5 wins in the mac will win the division...cuz whoever wins thursday still only has 2 losses and the tiebreaker on head to head...the best anyone else will do is 5 wins...AND Brookhart probably keeps the job with 6 wins so this gets huge...to beat buffalo will take the zips playing their best game of the year..see ya there... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ksu sucks Posted November 7, 2008 Report Share Posted November 7, 2008 Don't we need to win 2 more games to be bowl eligible. A win next week makes us 6-4 and up on Buffalo to win the east. We could lose the last 2 weeks and with Buffalo and BG losses in any of their last 2 games we would be the east champ @ 6-6. A loss in Detroit would make us 6-7 and staying home. first team in the east to 5 wins in the mac will win the division...cuz whoever wins thursday still only has 2 losses and the tiebreaker on head to head...the best anyone else will do is 5 wins...AND Brookhart probably keeps the job with 6 wins so this gets huge...to beat buffalo will take the zips playing their best game of the year..see ya there...How could you question Brookhart's job security at all? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PB1719 Posted November 8, 2008 Report Share Posted November 8, 2008 Not only that, but we need to keep winning, BG is only one game behind. Hopefully if we beat Buffalo, Buffalo will beat BG and take them out of contention. BG does have the tiebreaker on us.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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