Bowl?

[vapspwi]

Any idea if we’ll try for a bowl waiver and hope to back into one, or just let the season mercifully end? When might we know one way or the other? (I wish there was one more “accountability” CPJ show after the U[sic]GA game for questions like this.)

Personally, while I’m usually all in favor of more football, I’m just ready for this season to be over.

UPDATE: Per an article in the AJC Monday morning, there will be no bowl. There are enough 6-win teams to fill all the available bowl slots, with Duke and Temple being the last two in, so no 5-win waiver. Seemed pretty official - we ded.

This season can DIAF - at least when we were 3-9, we had the injury thing to fall back on. This year was just a dumpster fire of blown opportunities, bad luck, bad weather, and a bit of give-up toward the end. Could have been really good (looking back, 9-3 or even 10-2 was well within reach), should have been decent (7-4 worst case), and ended up lousy.

JRjr

 

[savbandjacket]

 

[jts1207]

Toilet Bowl

 

[cyptomcat]

 

[MCRP09]

 

[MtownJacket]

The extra practice is too valuable to pass up. I don't care if the game is in Yemen, lets get a head start on 2018.

 

[ThisIsAtlanta]

I hope we try for one. Never pass up money.

 

[MtownJacket]

But there are more bowl eligible teams than bowl slots, so it isn't going to happen.

 

[Diseqc]

I hope we try for one. Never pass up the opportunity to get embarrassed on national TV.

 

[gtsmckdwn222]

There will be no waivers approved because there are enough bowl eligible teams and we were unable to schedule a 12th game. An ineligible team cannot get a waiver over a bowl elgible team.

 

[BrentwoodJacket]

Are there more ACC bowl eligible teams than ACC bowl slots?

 

[Tempest]

I hope we try for one. Never pass up money.

Doesn't it usually cost the program more to go to the bowl game then the bowl game is worth?

 

[aeromech]

There will be no waivers approved because there are enough bowl eligible teams and we were unable to schedule a 12th game. An ineligible team cannot get a waiver over a bowl elgible team.

I think that really depends on how hard the ACC wants to press the issue, especially since we had to cancel a game because of a politically sensitive hurricane. That said, given that lower tier bowls are reportedly money losers, and our fan base has a reputation for terrible bowl attendance, I doubt we get a waiver. If the people who matter really wanted us in bowl we would have a 12th game lined up already (or UCF would have been forced to forfeit) and we wouldn't be talking about a waiver.

 

[TampaBayJacket]

since we had to cancel a game because of a politically sensitive hurricane.

I was without power for two weeks down here in Tampa area. You're trying to hard to make this political.

 

[smokey_wasp]

There will be no waivers approved because there are enough bowl eligible teams and we were unable to schedule a 12th game. An ineligible team cannot get a waiver over a bowl elgible team.

This is correct. Sucks, too. Hard to miss out on a bowl with a 4-4 record in the ACC. Texas Tech, for example, will go to a bowl with a 3-6 big 12 record. This season...just brutal. It mocks us at every turn.

 

[DressCheeseSideSeaboard]

If we had a better fan tournout for COFH, a bowl committee would likely have considered us.

 

[aeromech]

I was without power for two weeks down here in Tampa area. You're trying to hard to make this political.

Quit being a little girl. What I'm saying is that we get political pull for the game being cancelled due to the hurricane. Whether or not UCF should have manned up and played the game in Atlanta, or UCF, or been amenable to a makeup date is a completely different argument.

By the way, was that the same Tampa area that played a game that week?

 

[ThomsonJacket]

 

[gtg970g]

I was without power for two weeks down here in Tampa area. You're trying to hard to make this political.

I didn't know UCF was in Tampa. Learn something new every day!

 

[JoeCakeEater]

UCF ... forced to forfeit

Now you have my attention.