O Really wrote: ↑Fri Dec 22, 2017 10:08 amNor should a win against them be counted for national ranking. Of course, the small schools do benefit greatly financially for letting their teams be warm-up cannon fodder, so taking steps to discourage those games would hurt them more than the big schools.
Agree that it would hurt smaller schools more. Nothing wrong with warm up type games for big schools as long as the rest of the schedule is appropriate and is good for the small schools income, but for a school to make the decision to play a game that they had already announced that they would not play, only after they realised that they weren't bowl eligible stinks of fraud by the bowl committee.
Maybe other teams should schedule "maybe" games in case they come up short.