Bowl Eligibility

[MDZip]

OK, I know we're not in discussion having been the first team eliminated from post season play this year. The MAC, however, is looking a little better. With all of the teams in other conferences struggling, the MAC has 5 teams bowl eligible and the winner of Can't State-WMU (go Broncos!) game will also be eligible. As long as the the MAC wins at least a couple of those games, at least there might be the start of the perception of pulling out of the tailspin. Interestingly, the AP stats have the MAC as the 8th best conference in the country right now, ahead of the Big East, Conference USA and Sun Belt. The computers still have the MAC at #10.

[johnnyzip84]

OK, I know we're not in discussion having been the first team eliminated from post season play this year. The MAC, however, is looking a little better. With all of the teams in other conferences struggling, the MAC has 5 teams bowl eligible and the winner of Can't State-WMU (go Broncos!) game will also be eligible. As long as the the MAC wins at least a couple of those games, at least there might be the start of the perception of pulling out of the tailspin. Interestingly, the AP stats have the MAC as the 8th best conference in the country right now, ahead of the Big East, Conference USA and Sun Belt. The computers still have the MAC at #10.

That caught my eye too, MDZip! We can thank NIU and Temple for leading the way. I'm sort of hoping they both win out (should be a breeze for NIU facing Ball St and EMU in the last 2 games) to set up a nice, relatively high-profile MAC championship game.

[MDZip]

I also didn't want to mention this but sometimes you have to discuss tough topics head on. Our commissioners name begins with S. All of the MAC teams that are bowl eligible (assuming Western beats Can't as expected) have school names beginning with letters in the second half of the Conference (M-Z). All non-eligible teams are in the first half of the alphabet. I smell conspiracy. Our commissioner may well be an alphabeticist.