Temple (8-4) got left out...

[soonercastor]

of the bowls. And they beat Uconn too :eek:

[CatfishSooner]

bummerr....

[CrimsonRez]

How in the hell did Temple get left out and UCONN make it to a BCS bowl???

[soonercastor]

After appearing in a bowl game last year for the first time in 30 years, the Temple football team was left on the outside looking in when this postseason's invites were announced on Sunday.

The Owls, a Mid-American Conference team that finished 8-4, were one of only two bowl-eligible teams that did not get picked. The other was Western Michigan, a MAC team that went 6-6 in the first year in which a .500 record was good enough to be considered.

According to a source with knowledge of the process, Temple was in the running for the New Orleans Bowl. But that spot went to Ohio, another MAC team, which was selected over the Owls by virtue of the Bobcats' win this season in head-to-head competition.

Both teams finished 8-4 overall. Ohio went 6-2 in the MAC to Temple's 5-3.

That's pretty ****ED UP!

[cyclonesooner]

I'm sure Bill Cosby will be quite upset !

[Okie35]

Very ****ed up. They should do something about it.

[Ground_Attack]

create another crappy bowl!

[BigRed47]

What gets me is that a bunch of 6-6 teams are in bowl games and Temple is 8-4. I mean come on people. And they beat a BCS team. Doesn't make sense. I guess the bowls that passed on them felt they wouldn't bring enough fans.

[usaosooner]

that sucks

[Soonerman82]

That sucks for Temple. But they probably don't have the name regonition a lot of those 6-6 teams have.

[WA. Sooner]

Why couldn't they take Washington's spot? I mean uw was 6-6 and they are going to play nebraska who already hung 50+ on them

[bigfatjerk]

8-4 shouldn't be good enough to make a bowl.

[Soonerfan88]

They used the head-to-head reasoning for their conference affiliated bowl but other there are several other bowls that basically had open bids since at least Pac-10 didn't have enough qualified teams. Their lack of fan support probably hurt them the most. Lack of attendance got them thrown out of the Big East and I think they only average somewhere around 15,000 per game.

[stoops the eternal pimp]

after that school was so close to shutting football down, wish they would have got a chance at a bowl game..

but they don't travel but about 10 fans...not a lucrative team

[Fraggle145]

It probably saves their athletic department money in the long term. All they are missing out on is the bowl practice.

sucks for the players though.

[XingTheRubicon]

go watch your basketball team

[TUSooner]

What gets me is that a bunch of 6-6 teams are in bowl games and Temple is 8-4. I mean come on people. And they beat a BCS team. Doesn't make sense. I guess the bowls that passed on them felt they wouldn't bring enough fans.

This ^

The Bowls are a disgusting racket.

[TUSooner]

It probably saves their athletic department money in the long term....

At least there's that.

[TheHumanAlphabet]

and Uconn is touting that Temple was a quality opponent.

[badger]

How the bowl system works:

1- Prioritize any commitments and rules. Can't have Congress declaring us a cartel or monopoly, can we?

2- Butts in seats takes priority over everything else, except the rules. Only invite schools that promise to buy a certain number of tickets to ensure that we don't lose money... and more importantly, make money.

The Rose Bowl will invite TCU if it has to, and the Fiesta Bowl will take UConn if it must, but Temple just isn't a good ticket draw, is it?

[texaspokieokie]

temple still deserved a bowl.

[kelloggOUballa]

They could play Texas in the Sterling Toilet Bowl. Temple would probably win, too.

[badger]

temple still deserved a bowl.

Deserved, heh. The MAC is arguably one of the worst football conferences (perhaps the Sun Belt? Or the WAC, even with Boise?).

Mid-majors with 20 win seasons are excluded from the NCAA tourney all of the time, and the reason? They didn't win their conference. If they won their conference, they'd be in a bowl. They didn't. They didn't win the MAC. Sorry, Temple. You just didn't win the game you needed to.

[bigfatjerk]

I don't see how anyone thinks 8-4 is good enough to be in a bowl. 7-5 and 6-6 teams shouldn't be in bowls either.