Biggest "beat 'em up" CFB cupcake payouts?

Maybe he'll just quote us.

Then the desk could mug out the Silver Surfer and that creepy Bert in AQB's avatar.

 

In basketball it's more about trying different things in your rotation in a game you know doesn't count for anything. I know of no D-1 hoops teams who consider their wins over D-II teams (or Athletes in Action or the French National 'B' team) part of their official record.
But in basketball you get 30 games, so putting Bumblefuck Teachers College on the schedule means you still have plenty of room if you want to play Duke or Michigan State. In football you get 12 games so every FCS patsy you face, that's one less real game you can play.
They could nip this in the bud by saying no win over an FCS team counts for bowl eligibility, but, you know $$$$$$$$

 

Don't they say you can only use an FCS win to count for bowl eligibility once every four years?

 

No, it's every year. With two FCS wins, you need to finish 7-5.

 

That's a change, then. At one point in the not-too-distant past, it was one ever four years.

 

Purdue wouldn't be in a bowl this year if that were the case. win over SE Missouri St last year was one of their six. Win over E. Kentucky this year was one of their six.

 

Iowa State, Michigan State and Minnesota also would be sidelined. The bowls don't want that.

 

Usually those are glorified scrimmages at the very start of the season against the small college up the road, aren't they? It's hardly the same as playing some shit school in week 11 of the football season.

 

In addition to the season-opening exhibitions, schools can and do play non-D-I teams in games that count, a trend that seems like it has mushroomed this year. Look no further than tomorrow night when Michigan State hosts Tuskegee, and on ESPNU no less.

 

It's part of a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the 1963 "Game of Change" between Loyola of Chicago and Miss. State. Still seems like a weird way to link to that game.

http://www.freep.com/article/20121209/SPORTS07/312090261/Michigan-State-Tuskegee-game-likely-to-be-Jenison-s-last-for-basketball

And some of these D-I vs. D-II squashes usually seem like they happen because of geography. Old traditional rivals from the early days keep it up, even though one school is a major school and the other one is in the different division.

 

DI vs. DII games started becoming more common when NCAA rules were changed to outlaw exhibition games against international & AAU teams a few years ago.

 

DI vs. DII is no biggie. It's a controlled scrimmage on a Wednesday night. You get slightly more intensity than a practice, and you get to run your sets against live competition but in a way that if you do them right they're going to work. Positive reinforcement and all that. Who cares?