Who will be the first 12 team CFP era team to decline a non playoff bowl bid?

[loservol]

The weedeater bowls need to die yesterday. If you want a place for so-so teams to play in December, then have a football NIT.

Least the bowl teams would be playing for something. They need to rethink all this.

 

[95 Vol Alum]

The weedeater bowls need to die yesterday. If you want a place for so-so teams to play in December, then have a football NIT.

The bowls not involved in the playoffs are basically the NIT now. Enjoy the football NIT the next few weeks!

 

[rjd970]

I’m paying for yttv. ESPN is the package deal on a base platform. It’s free football

You’re still paying for it.

 

[volfanbill]

You’re still paying for it.

Whooosh

 

[Sarms58]

No way a team declines a bowl bid.

Money…

 

[VolsSportsFan]

Conferences would have to punish any program that refused a bowl. The program would be on the hook for the payout.

I don't know for sure but I think some conferences teams can't decline a bowl bid unless it's a Covid type situation.

 

[DaddyChad]

I 2nd that motion. I'm looking for players to start sitting out. The bowl games really need to go away.

I mean the non playoff bowl games you have a good percentage of the roster opt out anyways. Quality of those games is terrible but they’ll keep doing it bc money

 

[TrueOrange]

If opting out after accepting the bowl bid counts, then the answer is Marshall. Though it’s because pretty much because a third or so of the team (36 players) have entered the transfer portal after the coach left for Southern Miss the day after they won the SunBelt Championship.

(If so, I’d chalk that up more to the transfer portal gutting a team than the non-playoff bowls having less meaning.)

 

[jasonvol18]

Marshall!

 

[Raebo]

What about all these coaches that get new jobs before the bowl/playoff games? Unless they have been fired, should be in there contract that they can’t interview for new jobs until there team is completely done for the year or until Jan 1st or something like that.

 

[SayUWantAreVOLution]

What about all these coaches that get new jobs before the bowl/playoff games? Unless they have been fired, should be in there contract that they can’t interview for new jobs until there team is completely done for the year or until Jan 1st or something like that.

You'd hopefully never agree to a job where you couldn't weigh your prospects and line up a new job before leaving the old one. Coaches won't either.

They may have terms that they must TELL a school they're talking to others, but not preventing it. That's crazy. No sane person agrees they'll quit a job before they look for another one.

 

[SpaceCoastVol]

The weedeater bowls need to die yesterday. If you want a place for so-so teams to play in December, then have a football NIT.

How about Premier league like European soccer? Then relegation to the league next in line. at the end of the season. I'll bet that will be successful in killing off a lot of the programs that 'nobody' cares about either.

 

[SpaceCoastVol]

The bowls not involved in the playoffs are basically the NIT now. Enjoy the football NIT the next few weeks!

The Memphis/WV game is pretty damned entertaining.