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Topic: BOWL GAMES??? BOWL GAMES??? (11/6 update)
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Pataskala
11/6/2016 11:00 AM
This week 11 more teams became bowl eligible, so there are now 48 total: USF, Houston, Tulsa, Temps, Navy, Memphis, Clemson, L'ville, UNC, VaTech, Wake, FSU, Baylor, WVU, Okla St, Okla, Mich, O$U, Neb, PSU, Minn, Wis, MTSU, WKU, LaTech, ODU, WMU, Toledo, OHIO, Boise, SDSU, Wyoming, AFA, NM, Wash, Utah, Colo, Wash St, Stanford, USC, TxAM, Bama, FL, Auburn, Tenn, Ark, Troy, App St

23 teams need only one win for eligibility: UCF, Pitt, GaTech, MiamiF, KState, TCU, Tex, Iowa, MD, Ind, SMiss, UTSA, BYU, Akron, CMU, EMU, Colo St, AZSt, LSU, Kentucky, Georgia, SoCar, Idaho

Two teams that are at or above .500 need two wins: Army*, Ark St

(* ̵ Needs seven wins to be eligible)

So 73 teams are either eligible or need to win half or fewer of their remaining games to be eligible for one of the 80 bowl slots. That's down 12 from last week.

Here's the bowl picture by conference (does not include the six at large bids):

AAC (7 bowls): 6 in, 1 other, 7 total
ACC/ND (12 bowls): 6 in, 3 others, 9 total
Big 12 (7 bowls): 4 in, 3 others, 7 total
Big 10 (8 bowls): 6 in, 3 others, 9 total
CUSA (6 bowls): 4 in, 2 others, 6 total
Indies (1 bowl): 0 in, 2 others, 2 total
MAC (5 bowls): 3 in, 3 others, 6 total
MWC (7 bowls): 4 in, 2 others, 6 total
Pac 12 (7 bowls): 6 in, 1 other, 7 total
SEC (10 bowls): 6 in, 4 others, 10 total
Sun Belt (4 bowls): 2 in, 2 others, 4 total

In addition, 16 teams are 4-5 and could sneak in by winning two of their last three games: Cincy, SMU, NCSt, Syracuse, BC, TxTech, Nwern, NTex, Charlotte, BSU, Cal, Vandy, Miss, Miss St, GaSouth, SBama
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Victory
11/6/2016 11:13 AM
Teamrankings still sums to 77. It has stayed in the range of about 77.3 to 78.1 since week 2. It isn't that relevant to us. One more win and missing a bowl would be impossible. But even in the unlikely events of Ohio failing to win the division and we end up 7-5 and more than 80 teams qualifying it would probably be 6-6 G5 teams than stay home and not Ohio.

Bowl Eligible Undef
1 Clemson 100.0% 87.1%
2 Alabama 100.0% 85.9%
3 W Michigan 100.0% 74.1%
4 Washington 100.0% 54.1%
5 Michigan 100.0% 46.2%
6 Temple 100.0% 0.0%
7 S Florida 100.0% 0.0%
8 Navy 100.0% 0.0%
9 Tulsa 100.0% 0.0%
10 Houston 100.0% 0.0%
11 Memphis 100.0% 0.0%
12 Louisville 100.0% 0.0%
13 Florida St 100.0% 0.0%
14 Wake Forest 100.0% 0.0%
15 VA Tech 100.0% 0.0%
16 N Carolina 100.0% 0.0%
17 Oklahoma 100.0% 0.0%
18 Oklahoma St 100.0% 0.0%
19 W Virginia 100.0% 0.0%
20 Baylor 100.0% 0.0%
21 Penn State 100.0% 0.0%
22 Ohio State 100.0% 0.0%
23 Wisconsin 100.0% 0.0%
24 Nebraska 100.0% 0.0%
25 Minnesota 100.0% 0.0%
26 W Kentucky 100.0% 0.0%
27 Old Dominion 100.0% 0.0%
28 Middle Tenn 100.0% 0.0%
29 LA Tech 100.0% 0.0%
30 BYU 100.0% 0.0%
31 Ohio 100.0% 0.0%
32 Toledo 100.0% 0.0%
33 Wyoming 100.0% 0.0%
34 Boise State 100.0% 0.0%
35 New Mexico 100.0% 0.0%
36 Air Force 100.0% 0.0%
37 San Diego St 100.0% 0.0%
38 Wash State 100.0% 0.0%
39 Stanford 100.0% 0.0%
40 Colorado 100.0% 0.0%
41 USC 100.0% 0.0%
42 Utah 100.0% 0.0%
43 Florida 100.0% 0.0%
44 Tennessee 100.0% 0.0%
45 Auburn 100.0% 0.0%
46 Texas A&M 100.0% 0.0%
47 Arkansas 100.0% 0.0%
48 App State 100.0% 0.0%
49 Troy 100.0% 0.0%
50 Army 99.7% 0.0%
51 S Carolina 99.1% 0.0%
52 Kansas St 98.9% 0.0%
53 Miami (FL) 98.7% 0.0%
54 Georgia 98.4% 0.0%
55 Texas 98.2% 0.0%
56 Kentucky 98.2% 0.0%
57 LSU 95.1% 0.0%
58 Pittsburgh 93.8% 0.0%
59 Central FL 93.6% 0.0%
60 Indiana 91.5% 0.0%
61 Arkansas St 91.3% 0.0%
62 Idaho 91.2% 0.0%
63 Maryland 89.1% 0.0%
64 TX Christian 88.8% 0.0%
65 GA Tech 87.1% 0.0%
66 Akron 84.4% 0.0%
67 TX-San Ant 84.1% 0.0%
68 Northwestern 83.3% 0.0%
69 S Mississippi 83.0% 0.0%
70 Iowa 82.9% 0.0%
71 Central Mich 82.3% 0.0%
72 Colorado St 80.8% 0.0%
73 Arizona St 79.6% 0.0%
74 E Michigan 79.2% 0.0%
75 GA Southern 71.2% 0.0%
76 Mississippi 66.5% 0.0%
77 S Alabama 42.9% 0.0%
78 Texas Tech 41.7% 0.0%
79 Miami (OH) 39.8% 0.0%
80 Hawaii 36.4% 0.0%
81 NC State 35.9% 0.0%
82 Ball State 31.2% 0.0%
83 Vanderbilt 29.7% 0.0%
84 North Texas 28.7% 0.0%
85 UCLA 23.5% 0.0%
86 Boston Col 22.7% 0.0%
87 Charlotte 22.3% 0.0%
88 California 19.1% 0.0%
89 S Methodist 17.5% 0.0%
90 Syracuse 13.1% 0.0%
91 Miss State 11.2% 0.0%
92 Cincinnati 10.4% 0.0%
93 N Illinois 8.9% 0.0%
94 Oregon 7.6% 0.0%
95 Notre Dame 7.5% 0.0%
96 E Carolina 6.2% 0.0%
97 TX El Paso 6.0% 0.0%
98 Utah State 4.7% 0.0%
99 LA Lafayette 4.4% 0.0%
100 Kent State 2.5% 0.0%
101 Duke 2.4% 0.0%
102 Nevada 1.5% 0.0%
103 UNLV 1.3% 0.0%
104 Tulane 0.4% 0.0%
105 Illinois 0.3% 0.0%
106 LA Monroe 0.2% 0.0%
107 Texas State 0.2% 0.0%
108 Purdue 0.1% 0.0%
109 N Mex State 0.1% 0.0%
110 Connecticut 0.0% 0.0%
111 Virginia 0.0% 0.0%
112 Iowa State 0.0% 0.0%
113 Kansas 0.0% 0.0%
114 Michigan St 0.0% 0.0%
115 Rutgers 0.0% 0.0%
116 Florida Intl 0.0% 0.0%
117 Marshall 0.0% 0.0%
118 Fla Atlantic 0.0% 0.0%
119 Rice 0.0% 0.0%
120 U Mass 0.0% 0.0%
121 Buffalo 0.0% 0.0%
122 Bowling Grn 0.0% 0.0%
123 San Jose St 0.0% 0.0%
124 Fresno St 0.0% 0.0%
125 Oregon St 0.0% 0.0%
126 Arizona 0.0% 0.0%
127 Missouri 0.0% 0.0%
128 Georgia State 0.0% 0.0%
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OUcats82
11/7/2016 8:33 AM
Kind of crazy to see the names of programs who have won championships recently towards the bottom of this list. Just goes to show how hard it can be to sustain success and the price that can be paid for it in terms of coaches being hired away, becoming a bigger target on opponent schedules etc.

Will be interested in seeing how WMU fares in the near future as I most certainly anticipate Fleck being hired away. Just hope he sees the season through as I would love to say Ohio beat them at full strength to win the MAC and also to give them the best chance of repping the conference well in a bowl game.
Last Edited: 11/7/2016 8:34:49 AM by OUcats82
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GoCats105
11/8/2016 10:56 AM
Speaking of bowl games, I wonder if ESPN's recent rapid decline in subscribers will mean anything in the amount of bowl games they and other channels like them can produce. Hopefully a decline in the number of them is on the horizon.

http://deadspin.com/espn-is-hemorrhaging-subscribers-and-...
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OhioCatFan
11/8/2016 11:26 AM
GoCats105 wrote:expand_more
Speaking of bowl games, I wonder if ESPN's recent rapid decline in subscribers will mean anything in the amount of bowl games they and other channels like them can produce. Hopefully a decline in the number of them is on the horizon.

http://deadspin.com/espn-is-hemorrhaging-subscribers-and-...
In a strange way the future of ESPN may be the much maligned ESPN3 and devices like AppleTV and other types of "internet TV." As this article mentions, ESPN is investing heavily in the "streaming world."
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GoCats105
11/8/2016 11:44 AM
OhioCatFan wrote:expand_more
Speaking of bowl games, I wonder if ESPN's recent rapid decline in subscribers will mean anything in the amount of bowl games they and other channels like them can produce. Hopefully a decline in the number of them is on the horizon.

http://deadspin.com/espn-is-hemorrhaging-subscribers-and-...
In a strange way the future of ESPN may be the much maligned ESPN3 and devices like AppleTV and other types of "internet TV." As this article mentions, ESPN is investing heavily in the "streaming world."
Yeah the problem is though the ratio of money the are currently making from cable/satellite subscribers isn't going to be made up for through streaming services. ESPN's current subscriber fee is $7.21, which is a huge number for one channel.
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OhioCatFan
11/8/2016 11:49 AM
GoCats105 wrote:expand_more
Yeah the problem is though the ratio of money the are currently making from cable/satellite subscribers isn't going to be made up for through streaming services. ESPN's current subscriber fee is $7.21, which is a huge number for one channel.


In the future, what do you think they could charge as a monthly ESPN3 subscriber fee to those who "cut the cord"? I realize that this would require a renegotiation of their contracts with various cable companies, but I see that coming. Cable has fewer and fewer bargaining chips each year.
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GoCats105
11/8/2016 12:00 PM
OhioCatFan wrote:expand_more
Yeah the problem is though the ratio of money the are currently making from cable/satellite subscribers isn't going to be made up for through streaming services. ESPN's current subscriber fee is $7.21, which is a huge number for one channel.


In the future, what do you think they could charge as a monthly ESPN3 subscriber fee to those who "cut the cord"? I realize that this would require a renegotiation of their contracts with various cable companies, but I see that coming. Cable has fewer and fewer bargaining chips each year.
Good question. It seems to me like the streaming services have the power over ESPN and other channels, not the other way around at the moment. It's going to be interesting to see what happens in the next few years that's for sure. Also, who knows what's going to happen with this looming DirecTv/AT&T and Time Warner merger.
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OhioCatFan
11/8/2016 12:07 PM
GoCats105 wrote:expand_more
Good question. It seems to me like the streaming services have the power over ESPN and other channels, not the other way around at the moment. It's going to be interesting to see what happens in the next few years that's for sure. Also, who knows what's going to happen with this looming DirecTv/AT&T and Time Warner merger.
ESPN, it seems to me, will slowly transition from a primary cable model to a primary streaming model. This will probably take a decade or more to accomplish, but it seems to me to be the direction the company is going. The MAC is part of the beta test for this model, with the money ESPN has invested in the on-campus facilities for streaming sportscasting.
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