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[QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 312728, member: 27"]
I don't understand this. You can count 1 win against an FCS opponent when determining bowl eligibility.
 
[URL='http://www.ncaa.org/wps/wcm/connect/public/NCAA/Championships/Postseason+Football/Overview']NCAA Postseason Rules for College Football[/URL]
 
[I]Currently, there are 30 other bowl games that contractually tied to the FBS conferences. [B]To become bowl eligible a team must have a winning record, which may include one win against a FCS opponent[/B], or win their conference and the team must not be on postseason probation. The NCAA allows one victory per season over a FCS team to count toward an FBS team's bowl eligibility, so long as the FCS team has supplied financial aid for football averaging out to at at least at 90 percent of the 63 scholarships allowed over "a rolling two-year period" that can include the current season.[/I]
 
Just about every BCS team takes advantage of this and plays an FCS opponent.
 
We aren't doing this in 2012, either because the AD offices think no one will come to watch an FCS opponent or we were completely out flanked trying to book one. Probably a bit of both.
 
I bet we end up playing one each season in the future, especially in years when we have sold out the local fans to get a paycheck playing at MetLife Stadium. It might not happen in 2013, since the slot we were going to use for an FCS opponent will be taken up with a 9th ACC conference game, but I think it happens from that point forward.
 
If we have to play an FCS opponent (and given our need to schedule winnable OOC home games, we do), I would rather play Colgate than someone like Rhode Island or Maine.  Not sure if they want to play Syracuse.
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