Is bowl eligibility fixed this year?

[sra9888]

In past versions of the game some teams would go 5-7 or even 4-8 and somehow end up in bowl games. For anyone who has gotten through a season or 2 is this fixed this season?

[hitstreak13]

Nope, before I returned the game, there were 2 5-7 teams who made bowl games. I dont know why they went because there were 2 Sun Belt, 1 C-USA, and an ACC team that had .500 records and didnt get into one. This has been a problem since its ps1 days I believe.

[sra9888]

Can someone from EA look at this and find a way to fix it. It's so frustrating when I see bowl eligible teams snubbed in favor of teams that wouldn't legally be eligible to play in bowls in the first place.

[Tuxedo9000]

I think the problem is that the game looks at their conference records over their actual overall record.

Shouldn't be too difficult to fix....but alot of simple things get overlooked for years.

[sra9888]

It's just so annoying. Something so simple and it hasnt been fixed and its been in the game FOR YEARS

[TracerBullet]

Quote: Originally Posted by Tuxedo9000

I think the problem is that the game looks at their conference records over their actual overall record. Shouldn't be too difficult to fix....but alot of simple things get overlooked for years.

It could be that. I also think they focus too much on bowl tie-ins for conferences and that may cause problems as well.

[DarthRambo]

Nope, Duke got in a bowl game with a 4-8 overall record, and only won like 2 conference games. Its broken still. It's probably rare occurence, but still frustrating to see. Just hope I never have to play one of those 4-8 teams, cuz it on't be a challenge to even win the bowl game.

[Tovarich]

I went 6-6 with Duke one year and got no bowl game, but 2-10 Arizona did...no idea how the bowl logic in this game works, but yeah, many strange things for many years now...back on 06, it didn't give the Big East a BCS game once.