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One bowl-eligible team is staying home this postseason
By Paul Harvey
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Bowl season is not all fun and games for every 6-6 team in college football.
That has traditionally been the mark for teams to get to bowl eligibility. However, there are occasionally times when 6-6 teams get left out of the fun.
This year, no bowl had to settle for a 5-7 team, which sometimes happens if there is a shortage of 6-6 finishers. Unfortunately, there were 79 teams that finished at or above the .500 mark this year with 78 bowl slots available.
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The odd man out appears to be the Toledo Rockets out of the MAC:
Toledo is the only bowl-eligible team that did not receive a bid this season, sources told @Stadium
— Brett McMurphy (@Brett_McMurphy) December 8, 2019
Toledo did finish the year at 6-6 with a 3-5 conference record, but the Rockets did have some bright moments. They beat Colorado State and BYU in non-conference games and even hung close in a game against Kentucky out of the SEC. Unfortunately, the Rockets lost back-to-back games by blowout fashion to end the season.
Missing out on the postseason actually snaps a streak of five straight bowls for Toledo. Most recently, the Rockets headed to the Bahamas Bowl in 2018.
Paul is a lifelong fan and student of all things college football. He has been covering college football since 2017 and the B1G since 2018.