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It's complicated. Probably have some things wrong. But from what I can gather - Currently there are three open spots after all bowl eligible teams are taken. Buffalo is 5-6 and may earn one of the 3 spots Friday night against Akron. Of course it's also not impossible a six win team could decline a bid for some reason. 5-7 teams get bids based on APR, which my understanding is we are third. BUT.... one team we are behind, UNLV, just fired their coach Monday and has unofficially indicated they would decline a bowl bid. But wait there's more: App State is 6-6 but two wins are over FCS teams which makes them ineligible. However they are claiming a scheduling hardship and have asked the NCAA for a waiver to make them bowl eligible. NMSU is 5-6 and has asked for a waiver to become bowl eligible because their 12th game was postponed (weather) and their opponent has declined to reschedule There are no set guidelines or precedent for these waivers just the whim of the NCAA. But if either one is granted they would take open slots ahead of us. Sorry if I got anything wrong

Maybe he’s taking the HC position

The Auburn Paradox - one of the easiest places in the country to win 8 games, one of the most difficult to win 10

Around 2017 to 2018, when Kevin Sumlin, Joe Moorhead, Chad Morris, Matt Luke, and Ed Ogeron we’re all kicking around in the West, you could maybe argue he’d be 2nd. The West coaching lineup looks very different today

It's been like this for the better part of a decade, at least on the offensive side. Look at the NFL right now - 352 players are starting on offense in the NFL this week - exactly 2 are from Auburn. Two. And what happened to Running Back U? There is not a single Auburn running back on an active NFL roster right now. The next coach is going to have to be a heck of a salesman.

They have Vanderbilt as their permanent East opponent. Replace Geogia with Vanderbilt on our schedule every year and Gus Malzahn is probably still our coach

Fitting end given FSU wins game if refs make correct call on field

Luckily for Harsin, Auburn fans are well known for their remarkable patience

Sometimes I wonder if his name was John Smith rather than Bo Nix how his career at Auburn might have unfolded differently.

I actually wonder that myself. His first two years as head coach he had QBs that ran for 524 and 592 yards. Then Brett Rypien was a four year starter that didn't run. At all. Then the year after Rypien graduated his QBs combined to run for 330 yards.

Mason resigned I believe so we don’t owe him any kind of buyout

No, you said Arkansas State beat writer. And "one of his own beat writers" when referring to the Arkansas State AD. The guy who wrote it is not an Arkansas State beat writer. He is a University of Arkansas beat writer.

No, it was written by an Arkansas beat writer. Terry Mohajir was the AD at Ark St at the time Harsin was there. Believe he's the UCF AD now. I can't imagine why an Arkansas guy would write something negative about Auburn...

Did you watch the Ga State game? Not sure the Bo-Auburn relationship was ever going to recover from that.

I think the raiders would have made the playoffs even if he missed. Had he missed the game ends in a tie and the chargers would have made it over the steelers. Wacky.

That wasn't actually Deion. Although he had a game ending pick on the very next play after. Honestly though my recollection had this obvious PI and the Deion pick happening on same play somehow. WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT DO NOT WATCH IF YOU HAVE A WEAK STOMACH

This thread is Exhibit A

Gotcha, thanks. Seems like this will mostly impact a walk-ons ability to earn an unused and available scholarship, unfortunately.

My understanding is this - normal NCAA rules allow a max of 13 players on scholarship at any time. due to the penalty we will only be allowed a max of 11 scholarship players at any time for the next 4 years (the probation period). Do I have this right?

Yeah if ever there was a game that screwed over the fans for the sake of TV this is it

Where is this game? Atlanta? The stands are absolutely empty

Bo and Shivers were both captains last year. Maybe there is something (written or unwritten) about repeating as captain. I can't imagine Shivers isn't considered one of the leaders on this team.

The "agreement" with Gus was not that he ok'd the uniforms and reneged (he has no say) but that he said he would decline the penalties at the start of each half, and then told Harsin right before the game he was going to accept them.

I’m not worried I’m sure those 11 incompletions were just drops Guessing they probably meant 196 out of 307?

Are you sure you didn't get confused and start talking about AU here?