Link: A Navy Win on Saturday Could "Paralyze" the Bowl System
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With all due respect, if they want to participate in the system then the game needs to be scheduled at a time which allows the system to function and the system should not indulge anything short of that.
This is why I don't like the Army-Navy game. It isn't that big of a football game to me. I know what happens to the young men who play the game. That's commendable, but that game should be played during the regular season just like any other game. It's almost like a bowl game. Now, it's messing up a system that is in place. Navy is going to win that game. They should just announce it and get it over with. Go Army!
I don't remotely understand why Navy beating Army would cause the committee to even consider jumping them over a 13-0 Western Michigan team... Can someone explain that one?
The problem could be solved if Army-Navy were played the first game of the season instead of the last one. If they played August 26, 2016 they would have been the only game on .... just like next week, but the bowl selection would not be delayed.
Yeah it's a difficult feat in FBS. You can say their schedule is easy but so was Louisville's and look at what happened to them.
Why would rooting against Navy be considered "un-American?"
Being anti-Navy in this game means being pro-Army.
Being anti-Navy in this game means being pro-Army.
Oh, I thought it was time for Army-Navy. My bad.
On the other hand, isn't Temple in the United States?
As an aside, it always strikes me as odd when a football team runs onto the field with an American flag, like they were playing against the Taliban football team or something.
This would flow down to delay the lower-level bowls, some of which are scheduled as early as December 17.
The PTBs simply need to implement a rule that bowl selections are made on the day following the final conference championships games, period and full stop. Any games played after that date should not count for bowl selections or bowl eligibility. If games need to be played that late due to tradition, weather cancellations, revenue reasons, etc., then so be it, but an isolated game or two should not paralyze the entire system and travel plans, ticket sales, class schedules, practice schedules, etc.
I have great respect for the Army/Navy game and its tradition, but if they want a standalone date, they should forego the postseason implications and call it the bragging-rights exhibition that it usually is.
I have great respect for the Army/Navy game and its tradition, but if they want a standalone date, they should forego the postseason implications and call it the bragging-rights exhibition that it usually is.
They run onto the field with a US flag and a Virginia flag. The Virginia flag I get (unless the opponent is UVA), but the US flag in that situation I find incongruous. Every team VT plays is from the United States, so it strikes me as trying to improperly trying to appropriate a national symbol. Like calling the Dallas Cowboys "America's Team." I'm an American. And I don't like the Cowboys.
Don't know of anyone, including us Army guys, who think they will beat Navy. Just schedule the games, without taking the Army-Navy game into account.
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