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List of team turning down Bowls
Posted on 12/8/25 at 12:56 pm
Posted on 12/8/25 at 12:56 pm
I believe this to be a bunch of media driven hype.
ND is the only one of worth. They are an Independent who can do what they want.
The rest of the teams do not even qualify for a bowl birth except for Iowa Ste who lost their coach to Penn State.
Temple 5-7
K-State 6-6 actually bowl eligible but who cares.
Baylor 5-7
Rutgers 5-7
Kansas 5-7
UCF 5-7
Auburn 5-7 Could use the practice
FL St 5-7 Could use the practice
Hardly the end of Bowls even if there are too many bowl gmes.
ND is the only one of worth. They are an Independent who can do what they want.
The rest of the teams do not even qualify for a bowl birth except for Iowa Ste who lost their coach to Penn State.
Temple 5-7
K-State 6-6 actually bowl eligible but who cares.
Baylor 5-7
Rutgers 5-7
Kansas 5-7
UCF 5-7
Auburn 5-7 Could use the practice
FL St 5-7 Could use the practice
Hardly the end of Bowls even if there are too many bowl gmes.
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Posted on 12/8/25 at 1:03 pm to winkchance
Yea, I don't think they should even let 5-7 teams play in bowls. Teams without a coach get a pass. Notre Dame are just being pussies. Never thought I'd see the day where they take the coward's way out.
Posted on 12/8/25 at 1:06 pm to winkchance
Maybe all but ND, the teams/players don’t feel they deserve to play in bowl game with losing record, just my opinion
Posted on 12/8/25 at 1:06 pm to winkchance
This is the future. The question will no longer be which players opt out of bowls, but which teams opt out. If a university does not make the playoff, the season is considered a loss, and the bowls become irrelevant. Maybe we need to expand the playoff to 16 teams, and let the chips fall where they may.
Posted on 12/8/25 at 1:12 pm to winkchance
quote:
Temple 5-7
K-State 6-6 actually bowl eligible but who cares.
Baylor 5-7
Rutgers 5-7
Kansas 5-7
UCF 5-7
Auburn 5-7 Could use the practice
FL St 5-7 Could use the practice
Hardly the end of Bowls, even if there are too many bowl games.
I suspect every one of those bowls is a net cost to invited teams, and I doubt the programs listed have a budgetary surplus in their athletic department to absorb that easily. Probably made financial sense to decline. Maybe the result will end up being the paring down of the number of bowl games.
Posted on 12/8/25 at 1:14 pm to winkchance
It's like lizzo turning down an invitation to be in the Miss America pageant
Posted on 12/8/25 at 1:23 pm to winkchance
ND chose not to play in bowls games for nearly 50 years (1925-1970)
Posted on 12/8/25 at 1:24 pm to mdomingue
This is the price of ESPN creating all those BS bowls about 15 years ago. There were already too many and now the playoffs have gobbled up some bowl eligible teams in the first round. And teams with losing records don’t want to go in the hole to travel to bum frick, Idaho to play another school who is .500 or worse.
Posted on 12/8/25 at 1:42 pm to winkchance
It is a sad day now that we have teams opting out of bowls. Bowl season used to add to Christmas and I LOVED it. 
Posted on 12/8/25 at 1:59 pm to theliontamer
quote:Losing their meaningless bowl game would validate the committee’s decision to keep them out. With Jeremiah Love injured, and it being a “meaningless” bowl game, I could see them losing.
Notre Dame are just being pussies.
Might be smart for them to sit this one out for their future playoff arguments. Still cowardly of them though.
Posted on 12/8/25 at 2:08 pm to Tifway419
future bowl games? i don't see how this makes sense
edit: *future playoff chances?
edit: *future playoff chances?
This post was edited on 12/8/25 at 2:10 pm
Posted on 12/8/25 at 2:16 pm to winkchance
Man I'd love to play K-State a week after the Houston game. Feel like we owe them one!
Posted on 12/8/25 at 2:26 pm to winkchance
quote:
Temple 5-7 K-State 6-6 actually bowl eligible but who cares. Baylor 5-7 Rutgers 5-7 Kansas 5-7 UCF 5-7 Auburn 5-7 Could use the practice FL St 5-7 Could use the practice
Practice or not.
I thought you had to NOT have a losing record to get a bowl game. Is there really that many games now?
Posted on 12/8/25 at 3:03 pm to Pintail
The practice is worthless now. Your entire roster pretty much changes anyway
I wish every single team would decline their bowl invite
I wish every single team would decline their bowl invite
Posted on 12/8/25 at 3:36 pm to BabyDraco1499
quote:
It is a sad day now that we have teams opting out of bowls. Bowl season used to add to Christmas and I LOVED it
Back in the 90s, you had about 15-20 bowl games, and most of them started in the few days leading up to Christmas and it climaxed with the New Year's Day bowls. Then all of the unnecessary expansion happened. There are 36 bowl games that are NOT part of the playoffs. Add in the Cotton, Orange, Rose, and Sugar that are the CFP quarterfinals, then the Fiesta and Peach in the Semifinals, and there are 42 "Bowl" games.
This season we have two bowl games this Saturday, along with the Army Navy game, which should get a day to itself.
Troy and Jax State get the great reward of playing a bowl game in Montgomery that starts at 8 PM next Tuesday night. Both teams have nicer larger stadiums and neither are in the ghetto of Montgomery. It isn't even a fun trip for the players. Just over a week to prepare, and if it wasn't a game between two old in-state rivals, attendance would be horrible.
Posted on 12/8/25 at 3:41 pm to Pintail
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I thought you had to NOT have a losing record to get a bowl game. Is there really that many games now?
No. The only reason there is a need for some 5-7 teams this year is b/c Notre Dame, Iowa State, and Kansas State have all opted out.
Posted on 12/8/25 at 3:50 pm to winkchance
Give them all a year long postseason ban.
Posted on 12/8/25 at 3:51 pm to winkchance
Bowls are totally dead - they just don't know it yet. The shoe won't drop until something like #10 declines a conference championship game. Then everything is going to completely go off the rails. And I think that happens much sooner than anyone thinks. Like next year or the next.
Posted on 12/8/25 at 5:38 pm to winkchance
A 5-win team going to a bowl game is pretty much in line with this new age everyone gets a participation trophy bs.
Posted on 12/8/25 at 5:44 pm to theliontamer
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Teams without a coach get a pass. Notre Dame are just being pussies. Never thought I'd see the day where they take the coward's way out.
I know it feels manly and macho to toss around the coward accusation, but after this screw job, nobody should blame ND for not playing the part of the dancing monkey.
ND skipping a bowl costs ESPN TV revenue. Thats the only thing ND can do.
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