How did lou tech get a bowl bid with a 5-7 record?

Question

Did they change the way teams get bowl bids?  I thought a team had to get 6 wins?

cd329 · Answer

Did they change the way teams get bowl bids?  I thought a team had to get 6 wins?

TheLorenaKid · Answer

Marshall dropped out of the bowl game

cd329 · Answer

&#xA; &#xA;Thanks for the answer.  Thats another thing that rarely ever happened during bowl season in the past

umgmu · Answer

@cd329&#xA; Marshall coach went to southern miss, a ton of guys went in the portal.

cd329 · Answer

&#xA;Portal crap has ruined bowl season. Players used to wanna win their bowl game, now they could careless.

Im_Chasing · Answer

@cd329&#xA; Bowl Season was ruined before then. But agreed. This is awful now

1969USC · Answer

They have a HUGE fan base.

AJ86 · Answer

Bowls should only be offered to teams that have won 7 games. You shouldn't be rewarded with going just .500.

But that won't happen because there is too much commercial sponsorship nowadays

Sporttiger · Answer

Saban for NCAAF commissioner would fix this crap!!

mak104 · Answer

If it gets down to 5 win teams to fill the plethora of bowls, they go to the 5 win team with the best acedemic records.

bookieassassin · Answer

None of the better, and much more highly ranked APR teams wanted to go - eg. Wisconsin