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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 3202950, member: 289"]
By my count there are 39 bowl games and there are 81 teams at 6-6 or better so any thoughts that maybe something could come out of the blue and we'd get a bowl with a 5-7 record are gone.

I'm of three minds.

The Old Man on the porch in me wishes there would be about a dozen bowls with an 8 FBS win or Top 25 minimum so the bowls could reward excellence as they once did.

The practical me looks at the Syracuse program and realizes that there are many others like it who can use a bowl game as a stepping stone to better things so maybe getting a bowl if you can get to 6-6 would be a good thing.

The dreamer, (prankster?) in me notes that they are adding two more bowl games next year and there are proposals of 10 more and wonders: why not just give everyone a bowl game and those 15 extra practices, ranking everyone in the division from 1 to 130, putting the top 4 or 8 teams in the playoff and pairing everyone else by their ranking. I'll bet the game between the #129 and #130 teams would get good ratings just to see who winds up being the worst team in the country, (with both teams trying desperately not to be that team). They could call it the Ty-D-Bowl. ;)

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