Houston will run the table and beat an overrated team like A&M in their New Year's Six bowl. I am looking forward to it.
That's not so bad. Might actually be able to recover from that. normally we get pushed out of the top 20.
There's no way they can recover and make the playoff, but if they run the table including beating Louisville they'll get a good bowl game
We need one of the following to happen to make the AAC Championship and stay in the running for NY6. Scenario A: Navy loses two conference games. Scenario B: Memphis beats Navy, we beat Memphis. Bonus scenario: Boise loses a game, in conjunction with scenario A or B, so we remain the highest ranked G5 champion.
if we win out, we will be ranked higher than both. So does that mean NY6 even if we don't make the AAC championship game because of Navy loss?
It is the highest ranked champion that goes to the NY6 nowl. So we have to win the title. But think that if Navy wins out they'd be ranked higher than we are anyway. I don't think they are contracted to the Armed Forces bowl if they can get into the NY6 game, but not totally sure, anyway it wouldn't matter as we are not champs. Boise St would likely pass us in the ranking if undefeated given their history too. If we don't go NY6, the bowl games get a lot sadder.
If we win out we'll definitely be the highest ranked G5 team, and even if Navy wins the conference we have a shot at an at-large bid for NY6.
Meh. Us big boy schools want the playoffs, not the pee-pee game bowls. Enjoy your meaningless game nobody will remember in a month. Win or lose, I wouldn't actually care (as an overrated Aggy).
No real dog in this fight, except for Htown>College Station for me. That said: 6th 5th 7th 9th 8th https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Texas_A&M_Aggies_football_seasons Those are the finishes for A&M the last 5 years...nationally? no....regionally? no....just in the conference. Sumlin received a significant, ~ 60%, raise after amassing some of the finishes above. Attempting to calibrate 1) rewarding a coach with a raise and an extension after he 2) finishes middle of the pack in his conference while 3) the standard is CFP seems entirely untenable. RE: The glove don't fit. I appreciate that you and maybe your circle of friends or fellow alumni might hold the CFP as the standard. Meanwhile the administration, the coaching staff, the student body, the school's money, and every stakeholder involved in not opposing rewarding intra-conference mediocrity weren't cc'd on your memo. http://www.espn.com/college-footbal...as-aggies-finalize-kevin-sumlin-six-year-deal Meh, sometimes you're the 1%, sometimes you're the 99. All relative I guess.
I'm not a UH alum. As far as I'm concerned, most Aggie fans I know just want moral victories. "At least our record is better than t.u. this year!!!!" Until you win conference championships and at least a New Year's Six bowl game, you're nobody.
@UHFootballFeed Nationwide, 9.545 million have watched UH football on TV this year. 19th best in the country. Would be 3rd in Big 12 and 3rd in Pac 12.
They scared For a G5 team, that's incredible, yea? Wonder where the whole list would be if it was around...
Alabama is at 26.214 million, excluding the Kent State game but I doubt many people watched that one. (Sorry not related to UH but I just wanted to see)
That's pretty good considering Lamar was a 3 hour delay, (doubt many tuned in vs Lamar and even fewer stuck around) and Texas State has almost zero tv pull. 2 ESPN Thursday night really helped.
