Bowl Subdivision
While the College Football Playoff is dominating most postseason NCAAF betting conversations, there is another battle going on: how to find enough 6-6 teams to fill the 80 bowl spots. There are only 62 bowl-eligible teams in FBS right now. The NCAA agreement with bowls mean that the games will go on, even if there aren’t 80 teams with six victories, but the issue becomes how to hand out those slots to the 5-7 teams. According to the NCAA bylaws, the APR is the tiebreaker when 5-7 teams come into play. However, if a bowl game is supposed to have the Pac-12 and the Big Ten, can they choose a team from, say, the Big 12 with a higher APR than a 5-7 Pac-12 team, or do they have to remain true to their conference affiliation? The top two teams who are likely going to end up 5-7 in terms of APR are Utah State and Nebraska, but it could also devolve into a situation where bowls give out bids to schools that have the potential of delivering the most fans traveling to the host city.Holy War!
This week Boston College takes on Notre Dame in a home game away from home, as the tilt is set to take place at Boston’s Fenway Park, the home of the Boston Red Sox. Fenway also hosts high school playoff games, so this won’t be the first time that the field has seen football teams on the field. However, if ou take a look at the stadium, you’ll see that there are some tight points, such as the corner of one end zone and the third-base dugout:
#RedSox grounds crew finishing up the end zones and #ShamrockSeries logo today at #FenwayPark. pic.twitter.com/utAuhlDoga
— Fenway Park (@fenwaypark) November 14, 2015
Notre Dame and BC will both be wearing special uniforms for this latest installment in the Shamrock Series. The Irish togs are a bright green, while BC will be wearing throwback uniforms to the days of Doug Flutie. Who modeled the look? Flutie himself, of course.