I’ve been looking at this for awhile now. Over the past two years, six 5-win teams have received bowl invites on the strength of their Academic Progress Rating where GT ranks high. But this year not only are there a lot of 6 win teams filling the slots, but also several likely 5-win teams have higher APRs: Air Force, Minnesota, Vanderbilt, and Duke.
No way around it - the only path to a bowl game is beating Georgia.
^^^THIS...
Although, some posters (who I assume know stuff I'm simply unaware of) seem to think there is a "waiver" in play. Something we can apply for since we are only playing 11 games.
The implied nuance to this waiver is that we would be considered for since we did not play a scheduled game due to circumstances beyond our control. Again... implied is the waiver essentially would mean we are treated at 5-6 as if it's a 6-6 team, giving us credit for a win in the game we didn't play.
I say implied because I cannot find any evidence such a waiver exists... but multiple posters have alluded to it.
I continue to operate under the assumption there is no such waiver (I could be wrong)... that a 5-6 team is same as a 5-7 team & banking on APR ranking should there be too few 6 win (bowl eligible) teams.
The only bowl eligibility waiver I'm aware of does not apply to us in 2017. We actually were granted that waiver a few years ago when we ended up 6-7 after entering the ACCCG at 6-6 & lost. Pretty sure we needed the waiver because we were sub-500.
So I'm with
@RedPete here.... the situation regarding playing past tomorrow is simple... WIN OR GO HOME!!
THWG!!!!!
