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So the NCAA has put on hold adding any new games until at least the 2019 season at the earliest. Or the coach of a lousy, FBS college football team.
The NCAA’s football oversight committee last week recommended a three-year moratorium on sanctioning new postseason games and it was approved by the Division I Council.
Sources say the council is going to “study the postseason issue” and analyze what’s needed for a team to become eligible for a bowl. This is what the organization is seeking to address with the three-year halt on bowl games. The council also plans to determine whether the minimum requirement of a “deserving” bowl team is a winning record or finishing.500, a source said.
Charleston, Myrtle Beach, and Austin were all preparing to add games this year on top of the current ones.
And that last part might be the most important.
Nebraska, Minnesota and San Jose were allowed to play in bowls last season because they had the highest Academic Progress Report scores among teams with 5-7 records. One would think that numerous lesser bowls would disappear if the NCAA ruled that teams need to have winning records – not merely. “The result is teams with sub-.500 records participating in bowl games”. “For that reason, just as an individual, I feel the NCAA has done a commendable job of trying to move this forward to something that makes much more sense for their commissioners and their conferences”.
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Once upon a time, bowl games were rewards for teams with outstanding seasons, not a holiday chamber of commerce cash cows for states like Florida and Texas, which host 9 and 6 bowls respectively.
