https://www.cbssports.com/college-f...s-team-eligibility-tracker-for-2017-18-games/
Update on this. I want a bowl any way I can get it........that includes getting in with a 5-7 record.
Thanks for that link.
I went through a lot of time effort figuring out the below, but the tl:dr version is:
Colorado is not making a bowl at 5-7. Read on if you want to find out why.
There's still too much football to be played to be 100% certain, but after looking at the list of teams that are "two wins away from 6-6, with at least two games left to play" - which is also the same as "one win away from 5-7 with two games left to play," I think we need to prepare for NOT being bowl eligible if we end at 5-7.
Actually, I'm confident enough to make the call now: we will not go to a bowl at 5-7.
There are 19 bowl game spots left. We are currently at 15th on the list. The only way we move up is by winning (basically, we can't move up by teams above us losing). The only way we can move down is by other teams winning, we don't move down if we lose.
If any of these teams win a single game, we move down. If 5 of them win a single game, we're out. I put their remaining schedule after them.
UTSA: Marshall, @ LaTech
Ark State: @ TxState, @ La-Monroe, Troy
WKy: MTSU, @ FIU
Akron: Kent State
Texas Tech: @ TCU, Texas
Tulane: Houston, @ SMU
Syracuse: @ Louisville, Boston College
Pitt: @ VaTech, Miami
Duke: GaTech, Wake
Rutgers: @ Indiana, MSU
Maryland: @ MSU, PSU
Indiana: Rutgers, @ Purdue
Purdue: @ Iowa, Indiana
Air Force: @ Boise, Utah State
Tennessee: LSU, Vandy
Vanderbilt: Mizzou, @ Tennessee
Miami(OH): @ Ball State
If any of these teams wins 2 games, we also move down:
UCONN: Boston College, @ Cincinnati
Cincinnati: ECU, UCONN
ODU: Rice, @ MTSU
LaTech: @ UTEP, UTSA
Fla: UAB, FSU
Louisiana: NMSU, GaSo, @ App
La Monroe: @ Auburn, Ark State, @ FSU
South Alabama: @ GaSo, @ NMSU
NMSU: @ ULL, Idaho, South Alabama
If either of these teams wins 3 games, they move ahead of us:
FSU: DSU, @ Fla, ULM
Idaho: CCU, @ NMSU, @ GaState
Between Rutgers, Indiana and Purdue, we have a guaranteed one that will move us down, but it could be 2 or even 3. Between Tennessee and Vandy, we also have a guaranteed 1 that will move us down.
After those guaranteed two, we have to have everything go right in 48 out of 50 games. Ain't gonna happen.
If we end at 5-7, we'll be on the outside looking in.