Do you think a team ranked #10 deserves a NY6 bowl bid?

Do you think a team ranked #10 deserves a NY6 bowl bid?
by rockmcd (2019-12-05 14:02:06)

In reply to: Don't you simply point out our dilemma? posted by BeijingIrish

Take Notre Dame out of the equation and just answer the question.

This year, if Utah and Clemson both make the CFP, then the #10, #11, and #12 teams will not be invited to play in a NY6 bowl. It's going to be the top 9 teams, plus 3-loss Oregon, 4-loss UVA, and probably Memphis.

As for how this impacts ND, if I were AD I'd want to negotiate an arrangement where we get an automatic NY6 invite if we are ranked #12 or higher. Because if there are 6 games, that means 12 teams ("I was told there would be no math"). If you're ranked lower than #12 then you don't deserve it (as is the case this year). If conferences want to get cute and give automatic bids to undeserving teams, then let them take those bids from some other conference team, not ND. If ND is the only team that can't get an automatic bid when we're undeserving, then we shouldn't be locked out in years that basic math indicates that we are deserving.

A nit with your math. There are 16 teams

involved. The 12 teams selected for the NY6 plus the 4 teams in the playoff. If the system were completely merit based, then the fifth through sixteenth teams would be in the NY6.

The math is correct

The top four teams (playoff teams) already take 4 of the 12 NY6 available slots. Thus, the top-12 argument.

I agree with everything you say. *