LUOrange wrote:Somedbody correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe we need 7 wins to be bowl eligible because only 1 of the FCS wins can count towards eligibility. So we need 4 more FBS wins. Which is one reason why I think LU should pursue the Nebraska game.
The bowl eligibility is listed below. Qualifing starts with teams meeting requirements stated in rule 1. As long as there are not enough teams to qualify all bowl slots you keep going through all 6 rules until you have enough teams to till all bowl slots. Teams see rule 2 concerning FCS wins. Liberty would qualify under rule 5.
1. Teams finishing 6-6 with one win against a team from the lower Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), regardless of whether that FCS school meets NCAA scholarship requirements. Until now, an FCS win counted only if that opponent met the scholarship requirements—specifically, that school had to award at least 90% of the FCS maximum of 63 scholarship equivalents over a two-year period. In the 2012 season, programs in four FCS conferences cannot meet the 90% requirement (56.7 equivalents)—the Ivy League, which prohibits all athletic scholarships; the Pioneer Football League and Georgetown, which do not currently award football scholarships; and the Northeast Conference, which limits football scholarships to 38 equivalents.
2. 6-6 teams with two wins over FCS schools.
3. Teams that finish 6-7 with loss number seven in their conference championship game (that has been eliminated by the conference championship waiver rule).
4. 6-7 teams that normally play a 13-team schedule, such as Hawaii's home opponents. Although Hawaii normally plays a 13-game schedule, it only played 12 games in the 2012 season.
5. FCS teams who are in the final year of the two-year FBS transition process, if they have at least a 6-6 record.
6. Finally, 5-7 teams that have a top-5 Academic Progress Rate (APR) score. This was later adjusted to allow other 5-7 teams to be selected thereafter—in order of their APR.[9]