{"id":526674,"date":"2010-04-13T20:53:36","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T00:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fanblogs.com\/ncaa\/008337.php"},"modified":"2010-04-13T20:53:36","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T00:53:36","slug":"new-bowl-rules-to-open-more-doors-to-6-6-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/526674","title":{"rendered":"New bowl rules to open more doors to 6-6 teams"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NCAA committee that oversees rules changes has approved a measure brought forward by Big 12 Commissioner Dan Beebe allowing bowl committees to give equal consideration to teams with 6-6 records<\/a> when evaluating at-large bids. <\/p>\n

At first glance, it would seem to reward teams that played a tougher schedule rather than padding their record with cupcakes. The change would also give bowls more flexibility to create the most interesting matchup, potentially boosting revenues for struggling bowl committees.<\/p>\n

Matt Sanderson, co-founder of Playoff PAC, told the San Diego Union Times<\/em> that the rule could allow bowls with open slots for at-large teams to select power-conference teams with 6-6 records over smaller-conference teams with winning records. <\/p>\n

Sanderson points to this season’s GMAC Bowl, which took 9-3 Troy as an at-large team. Under the revised rules, the GMAC Bowl could have offered the at-large slot to 6-6 Notre Dame. <\/p>\n

While the new provision still needs an OK by the greater NCAA, most rule revisions that make it out of committee are approved. <\/p>\n

Suffice to say… no one wants to see a bad 6-6 team stink it up in a marquee bowl game. The reality is that – with new bowls coming on in Yankee Stadium and the Cotton Bowl – there are going to be 70 teams in bowl games this year. If a bowl needs to dig deep and get an at-large team, I would prefer them to create the most interesting game they can. <\/p>\n

No disrespect intended, but I would *much* rather see a hypothetical 6-6 Southern Cal as an at-large against Alabama, for example, over a 7-5 Louisiana Monroe. <\/p>\n

Just sayin.<\/p>\n

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The NCAA committee that oversees rules changes has approved a measure brought forward by Big 12 Commissioner Dan Beebe allowing bowl committees to give equal consideration to teams with 6-6 records when evaluating at-large bids. At first glance, it would seem to reward teams that played a tougher schedule rather than padding their record with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}