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Bowl payouts are net of ticket sales requirements. If the payout is $10 and the team sells only $1 of its $2 allotment, then the payout to the team is $9. And if it's going to cost the school $10 to get the team, including support staff, cheerleaders, etc to & from the bowl and put them up in a hotel and feed them, then the school is losing $1. Schools often (perhaps usually) lose money on bowl games. It's not about how many FCS teams you play, it's about how many wins over FCS can count towards bowl eligibility. That number is 1. You can play more than one FCS school, but you're essentially making it more difficult for your team to be bowl-eligible because only one of the (expected) two wins matter in the quest for a bowl. I think the "pass" (waiver) you're thinking about for Army was for the 2015 game against Yale to count towards bowl eligibility. The game against Yale - a non-scholarship FCS school - was played at the Yale Bowl as part of the 100th anniversary of the stadium, so the waiver request was grounded in the historical nature of the game. Note that the waiver wasn't even used because we lost to Yale (and didn't come close to bowl eligibility).

I don't think either of these guys actually watches college football. First guy: "q - sa" Second guy: Team A outgained opponents by X last year, and by Y this year. They are ( Y - X ) better/worse than they were last year. These guys make their living giving betting advice and possibly betting themselves. Neither of those things mean that they actually watch games. In fact, watching games probably takes too much time. They can't watch even 50% of all FBS games in a given week, especially if they're also watching NFL (and possibly other sports).

Peter Loshak's hair & mustache are great.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2017/11/14/mountain-west-weighs-tv-money-versus-controlling-game-times/107671558/ If the MWC hadn't crapped on every other member's tv revenues to get Boise back, maybe they wouldn't mind mid-week games quite so much. Also, don't miss this gem from Wyoming's AD: "I don't want to say Boise's brand is different ... Boise still has a brand that's different"

Body control, for starters.

That's the cadet parachute team, the ones that jump into Michie for home games. They're not the experts the Golden Knights are, but they do quite well against their peers.

There might be multiple small ones, but the official one sponsored on by the Association of Graduates / hosted by the West Point Society of North Texas goes through halftime I wouldn't expect a great number of the attendees to stay at the tailgate until it closes though. Unless, of course, they REALLY like the open bar.

When we do pass, it's not because our WRs have blown by anyone with their speed. In fact, WRs account for only about 1/3 of our receptions (6 of 17).

It's no secret that we don't pass. We've thrown exactly 1 pass this month. Still managed to average 5.3 yards per carry this month against two opponents who have seen LOTS of triple option over the past several years (Air Force and Duke). On the season, we've thrown 57 passes and run the ball 582 times. So we run 91% of the time. Still managed to average 6.0 yards per carry. (10 of those 57 passes [more than 17% of the season total] came on one drive - the game-tying drive against Temple.) Not saying loading the box this week won't work, just that you won't be the first to do that this season.

His preseason ratings have no impact on his ratings at this point in the season.

Hey, us too!

Why? (Not that it matters, Army is headed to Fort Worth.)

Well, given that ND doesn't visit the home stadiums of either Army (38K capacity) or Navy (34K), I think it's safe to say that they aren't coming to Apogee. If you guys were to host them, it would have to be AT&T Stadium. Obviously that short "re-location" would be worth it for the publicity.

I think it was supposed to happen, but then NMSU and Idaho became Sun Belt Conference members and their scheduling issues were (temporarily) resolved.

I actually am a Navy fan when they're not playing Army. My parents met in the Navy. My father served 27 years in the Navy and proudly wore his West Point cap & shirt to the Chiefs Club after I decided to attend West Point and for many years afterwards. As for cut blocking, every team does it. Yes, triple option teams do it more often -- and do it better, but every team does it. The "causes more injuries" thing is crap. and on the topic of Liberty, it looks like we replaced you with them for 2018 we visit them (and still apparently visit you) in 2021 we then host them in 2025 and visit them in 2026

Then people (whether those people are ADs, coaches, reporters, or fans) should stop making up stuff about injuries. In the Mean Green Blog post about Littrell's presser the week after the regular season Army game, Vito wrote "UNT should be a little healthier this week after getting through the Army game in pretty good shape." Every single player who started on D against Army in the regular season game played the next week.

I like facts too. What injuries?

Control over 380,000 entertainment devices. Geez, I could control every entertainment device in southwestern New Hampshire. And southeastern Vermont.

I read the pre-bowl ranking (40) as an admission of bias. He didn't think the game would be any good at all. Pretty amazing that the combination of (a) it actually being an exciting game and (b) other bowls "underperforming" was enough go get HOD all the way to 16.

Very nice gesture.

Agree. That's why I didn't claim that we were better than average.

I'd say that on our best Saturdays, Army was on par with better G5 teams: Road win at Temple, road win at Wake Forest, 66 points on the road at UTEP (yes, it was UTEP, but no one else scored 66 on them this year). On our worst Saturdays, we were far from that: loss at Buffalo, 7 turnovers in regular season vs you guys, loss to Notre Dame. If you think Navy was among the best G5 teams this year, consider that we beat Temple on the road while Navy lost to them at home (note that Navy was already down 21-0 before QB was injured). Then consider that Navy beat ND and we got demolished by ND. And of course our special teams were far from a strength, especially after we lost starting kicker on opening KO at Buffalo.

Good read. I'm going to share this on the Army rivals board.

Nothing about major in NCAA eligibility rules, just degree requirement measures. Like most NCAA academic standards, the bar is pretty low: 40, 60, & 80 percent through degree requirements, respectively, prior to the 3rd, 4th, and 5th year of enrollment. Those standards are another reason to redshirt.