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"Report: Tech To Be Granted Bowl Waiver"...(c/p)
Nov 30, 2012, 12:39 AM
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Report: Tech to be granted bowl waiver
7:46 pm November 29, 2012, by Ken Sugiura
Georgia Tech will receive a bowl-eligibility waiver from the NCAA even if it loses the ACC Championship game to finish at 6-7, according to a cbssports.com report.
The story cited two unnamed sources. Tech, ACC and bowl officials could not confirm the report. Without directly commenting on the news, acting athletic director Paul Griffin reaffirmed his confidence in Tech’s situation, reiterating a comment made Monday.
“We’ll be playing in an ACC bowl game between the 27th of December and the first of January,” he said. “We’re going to make sure we do everything we can to make sure that it’s the Orange Bowl.”
With a new NCAA rule in place addressing bowl eligibility, concerns arose that Tech might not be bowl eligible if it lost to Florida State to drop below .500, a standard to receive a bowl invite, even though UCLA received a waiver last year in a similar situation. If the Yellow Jackets were not granted a waiver, it would have put them in a situation of needing to win the title game to go to the Orange Bowl or be shut out of the bowl picture altogether. Griffin and other Tech officials maintained their certainty that they would be playing in a bowl regardless. It appears they had reason.
Ken Sugiura, Georgia Tech blog
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Anyone who isn't 7-5 at least, shouldn't be awarded***
Nov 30, 2012, 12:42 AM
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Agree 7-5 with one of the wins can be over a FCS team***
Nov 30, 2012, 6:41 AM
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Wow. Lose the ACCCG, have a losing record and still get a
Nov 30, 2012, 7:53 AM
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bowl. Shows just how much NCAA is a bonehead organization.
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Well, they're 6-6 and eligible now. So they should be
Nov 30, 2012, 7:55 AM
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punished for losing their championship game? Not all conferences have them, it's the right rule to waive it.
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Re: Well, they're 6-6 and eligible now. So they should be
Nov 30, 2012, 9:29 AM
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Well they should get the waiver because they wouldn't be playing if Miami would step up
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