So how long until Florida sets up a Dec 2 game vs an FCS to get bowl eligibility?

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10 minutes after losing to UGA

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Hey frickers don't start hyping us up now.


Everyone has been saying UGA is gonna shite the bed every week for the past month, so please keep that lucky habit up

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minutes after losing to UGA

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Rat poison

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Says the fan of the team who plays New Mexico, Nichols and Louisiana.

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Bruh.... why are you lashing out at the idea of replacing your cancelled FCS game vs Northern Colorado with another FCS game on a date Florida will be free?

Remaining games for 3-3 Florida

vs UGA
@ Mizzou
@SCAR
UAB
Florida State

2-3 vs that slate wouldn't be a shock. The loss of their FCS game could keep them at home for bowl season which in turn would cause every single SEC school to lose bowl money.

I'm just thinking of what needs to be done for the good of the conference.

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2-3 vs that slate wouldn't be a shock. The loss of their FCS game could keep them at home for bowl season which in turn would cause every single SEC school to lose bowl money.

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If that's your concern, I don't think it's a problem. Seems like for the past few years we have had a number of teams with losing records being slotted for bowls. Not sure of the mechanics of it all, but it has been happening.

You guys are gonna love Shreveport. Or Memphis. Or Birmingham.

God I hope you get Birmingham and you get a crazy cold snap in that place like we had a few years ago when we played there.

I bet you wear jorts with thermal underwear.

if Florida goes 5-6, they WILL get a bowl

it will be Shreveport of Bham; but they would fill an SEC slot

Probably after they lose to UAB.

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If that's your concern, I don't think it's a problem. Seems like for the past few years we have had a number of teams with losing records being slotted for bowls. Not sure of the mechanics of it all, but it has been happening.

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To be eligible, a team must have at least as many wins against FBS opponents as it has total losses in the regular season (excluding the conference championship game), except that a team may count one win against an FCS team that has given out at least 90% of its allowed scholarships over the past two years (as some FCS teams have defeated FBS teams, most notably in the major FCS conferences that typically are in the NCAA championship final). There is one exception to this, as is the case with other sports that use a conference tournament; a conference champion is always eligible to play in a bowl game where the conference has a contract that requires its champion to play in that game. The exclusion of conference championship games was added after UCLA, which was the Pac-12 South representative in 2011, was 6-6 and lost the conference championship game that they participated only because of USC, which won the division that year, was on NCAA probation. The NCAA granted UCLA a waiver, and the exception appeared the following year, where the rule was used by Georgia Tech, the only eligible team among the three tied teams in the Coastal Division that was eligible for postseason because of NCAA probation, was also 6-6 and lost the conference championship game .[1])

If, as happened in 2015, there are more bowl game openings than eligible teams, then additional teams can become eligible. They are divided up into four groups; all of the teams from a group must be chosen (or decline a bowl bid) before teams from the next group can be chosen. The groups are:

A team that does not have a "counted" win against an FCS team, but beat an FCS team that did not meet the 90% scholarship requirement, and would have been bowl eligible had that game counted.
A team that plays 13 games in its regular season (excluding conference championship games, as that was previously referenced; a 13th game is possible if a team plays at Hawaii) and has a 6-7 record, since six wins is normally bowl eligible.
A team in the second year of an FCS to FBS transfer "probationary period" that would have been eligible had it been a full FBS member.
If there are still bowl openings remaining, they are given to teams with a 5-7 record in order of their four-year football Academic Progress Rate (APR).

Note that, in groups 1-3, the teams can be chosen in any order, and the bowl games choose the teams; however, in group 4, they must be chosen in APR order, and each team chooses the bowl game in which it will play

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2017 APR rankings teams ahead of Florida.

teams that could potentially to go 5-7 bolded


T1. Air Force 995 / 2-4
T1. Northwestern 995 / 3-3
3. Michigan 993
T4. Duke 992 / 4-3
T4. Minnesota 992 / 3-3
T4. Vanderbilt 992 / 3-4
7. Navy 991
8. Wisconsin 990
9. Louisville 988 / 4-3
10. Stanford 985
T11. Illinois 984 / 2-4
T11. Maryland 984 / 3-3
T11. Rice 984
T11. UCF 984
T11. Washington 984
T16. Georgia Tech 983 / 3-2 (only 5 games left)
T16. Middle Tennessee 983 / 3-4
T16. Utah 983
T19. Army 982 / 5-2
T19. Indiana 982 / 3-3
21. Toledo 981
T22. Alabama 980
T22. Auburn 980
T22. Clemson 980
T22. Florida 980

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This is a very strange troll.

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Not after last year

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9. Louisville 988 / 4-3

If Louisville goes 5-7 with that schedule they don't deserve a bowl.

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It's actually not an easy remaining schedule for them.

@ FSU 2-3
@ Wake 4-2
Virginia 5-1
Syracuse 4-3
@ Kentucky 5-1

Remember, they just lost to a (now) 3-4 Boston College. They aren't exactly world beaters this year. Their defense is weak and it seems like Lamar Jackson is being forced to do everything by himself on offense.