Bowl-eligible, yet should stay home

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FSU's now eligible with 6 wins, but they have no shot of drawing flies to any bowl game. Their fans don't even travel well to BCS but non national title games when they're winning big, imagine trying to get them to spend holiday time in Boise. If they beat UF, that'll feel like the bowl game to their fans anyway.

 

In their opener with their superstar nowhere near ready to go - very different team right now and their fans will travel well, which is always hugely important. The Orange Bowl is looking at trying to sell tickets to see someone play Wake Forest or Georgia Tech. If you don't think they'd kill to have a two loss SEC title game loser, you're nuts.

 

McFadden was injured outside a bar at 4 a.m. ... not exactly a sympathetic situation.

 

And this is germane to Arkansas's chances of getting a BCS invite as an at large team how?

 

They lost one already. If they lose two, they shouldn't go over other similarly credentialed one-loss teams.

 

I would vote Kent State. They beat Miami of Ohio, Bowling Green, Akron, Temple, Toledo and Eastern Michigan.

 

Which would be who exactly? An SEC title game loser (assuming a UF win, which is far from a sure thing) whose only other loss is to a team in the BCS title game with fans who will travel is the perfect bowl credential. It's about sellling tickets if it's not a spot in the title game. What other at large team will do that for the Orange Bowl?

 

To answer your question. I really don't think Notre Dame or Texas would last long enough for the OB to pick them. If you remove to the "whose only other loss is to a team in the BCS title game" Other than Texas, Nebraska, Notre Dame, Louisville, WVU, Wisconsin, Michigan, I really don't think there is anyone would do that for the OB...but then again, those are the only seven teams that come to the top of my head.

Perhaps it would need some actual thought by one of us before we sit down at the keyboard and ramble something off?

 

Agreed.

 

One of us is thinking, and it's not you. Know the rules of the game before you decide to talk about it next time.

Texas will either have two losses and be champion of the Big 12, in which case they go to the Fiesta Bowl automatically, or three losses and be out of the BCS picture altogether. For Nebraska, the same scenario applies except they already have three losses making them even more irrelevant to this discussion. Michigan is either going to the BCS title game or to the Rose Bowl as Big Ten rep. Wisconsin therefore is ineligible for the BCS, because you aren't allowed to have three teams from one conference qualify. That leaves two loss ND, who the Sugar would take before they get to the OB, Louisville and WVU. No bowl in the world would take Louisville's fanbase over Arkansas to travel for a football game. So the only relevant question out of all you threw out there boils down to WVU (should they beat Rutgers) with one loss versus a two loss Arkansas. Personally, I think the Orange Bowl would opt for the Razorbacks if they didn't get killed, but that one's debatable.

 

Kentucky.

Likely to be 7-5 after next week's butt-kicking at UT, but the seven wins have been against totally lackluster competition.

And few of the wins have been convincing -- yesterday they almost squandered a 28-10 lead at home to 2-8 Louisiana-Monroe. The Warhawks, who lost 42-40 thanks to a failed 2-point try in the final minute -- also gained 351 yards on the ground.

That's as embarassing a win as you can have for a bowl eligible school in a BCS conference.