Last week, the NCAA's Division I Board of Directors agreed to sponsor legislation that would treat football teams with .500 records the same as teams with winning records for bowl participation. If the legislation passes, it would allow a bowl, that has to go outside its conference affiliation to fill a spot, to select a more attractive 6-6 BCS school over a 7- or 8-win non-BCS school.
Which is exactly why the Big 12 proposed the legislation. Sources told FanHouse that the Big East and ACC support the legislation, while the other BCS leagues (Big Ten, Pac-10 and SEC) also are expected to support it.
"Our feeling is that a 6-6 team from the Big 12 that has played five teams in the Top 25 should not be in a different position from a 7-5 team from another conference that may have only played one or no teams in the Top 25," Big 12 commissioner Don Beebe told the NCAA News. "The six-win team is probably more marketable in some cases than the others, so it should be treated the same."
More marketable as in, will sell more tickets.
For this season, the non-BCS winning teams cannot be bypassed by a 6-6 BCS team. For example: if the Big Ten does not have enough bowl-eligible teams to send to the Little Caesar's Bowl or the SEC doesn't have a team to send to the Papajohns.com Bowl, those bowls must select a team with at least seven wins.
If there were not any BCS seven-win teams available, the bowl would have to select a non-BCS league (Mountain West, WAC, Mid-American, C-USA or Sun Belt). Next year, however, in that scenario, the bowl could bypass a seven-win non-BCS team for a 6-6 BCS team.
So basically, after a BCS team opens with a win against a FCS team, it only needs to go 5-6 against FBS teams to secure a bowl bid.
This year there are 34 bowl games. With the addition of the Yankee Bowl and Dallas Football Classic next season, there could be as many 36 bowls, meaning 60 percent of the 120 FBS teams would play in a bowl game.
No wonder the FBS doesn't want a playoff.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
11-05-2009 @ 6:36PM
keithfan4 said...
this is absolutely terrible....i guess TCU Boise St. and these other teams that are good and are willing to play big teams will get screwed....Boise St is trying to get bigger name teams to play them and people keep saying no....They dont want what happened to Mich when they lost to App St. They have to do something with college football where every1 has a chance to compete against the major teams
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11-06-2009 @ 12:30PM
boardr247 said...
Boise doesn't want to play the bigger teams. Don't be deceived. Boise wants 1 and 1. Bigger teams want to play at home. It's Boise that's saying no in most cases.
11-05-2009 @ 7:39PM
Butch said...
Make it a 7 win requirement to go to a bowl and I`m an SEC guy. The only exception if it happens is if they win their conference. Too many 6-6 teams that get blowed out two or three times and beat two Sub division teams doesn`t do anything for me when it comes to a bowl bid.
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11-05-2009 @ 8:28PM
TEX said...
The 6 win requirement is severely outdated. This was set back when teams played 10 and 11 game seasons, meaning that the team had to have a winning record to make it to a bowl. Now that there are 12 games in the season, the requirement should clearly be changed to 7 wins for bowl eligibility, and eliminate 1/3 of the bowls.
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11-06-2009 @ 12:01PM
michael said...
This is simply atrocious. The Bcs schools are just playing a power up grab. They want all the money and leave these non BCS schools out of the picture. I say it is time for a new type of rules or conference calling, unlike the NCAA. These schools are not getting a fair shake at all.
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11-06-2009 @ 1:19PM
hello asca said...
bad idea and i still say they need a tournament not that i think it will happen it would take a horrendous mess in which 4 or more teams could legitimately claim they deserved a berth in the national championship game the BCS is crap
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