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And now the NCAA has another issue with FSU’s bowl streak.
Reddit’s college football page, r/CFB, presented data Thursday that calls into question whether Florida State is actually eligible for a bowl game. Let’s go through it.
FBS teams get to count one FCS win toward bowl eligibility.
The Noles were 5-6 against FBS opposition, but they also had a blowout win of Delaware State, a 2-9 FCS team from the MEAC.
That FCS win has to meet a seldom-cited requirement to count toward a bowl.
It has to come against a team that has used at least 90 percent of the FCS maximum scholarship total (63 per team) “during a rolling two-year period.”
And now the NCAA has another issue with FSU’s bowl streak.
Reddit’s college football page, r/CFB, presented data Thursday that calls into question whether Florida State is actually eligible for a bowl game. Let’s go through it.
FBS teams get to count one FCS win toward bowl eligibility.
The Noles were 5-6 against FBS opposition, but they also had a blowout win of Delaware State, a 2-9 FCS team from the MEAC.
That FCS win has to meet a seldom-cited requirement to count toward a bowl.
It has to come against a team that has used at least 90 percent of the FCS maximum scholarship total (63 per team) “during a rolling two-year period.”
