Apparently, it's because they tried but we're unsuccessful at scheduling the 11th FBS game.
One would think App st would be granted the waiver. They had Marshall on the schedule as a non conference then they became conference and were unable to replace them.
Wow. And army got refused. What was the reason? Any idea why?
They lost a game to San Jose state this year after the death of SJSU running back. Apparently they reached out to a several schools to schedule a game to replace it and they no one agreed so NCAA granted them a waiver.
If rose bowl or sugar bowl gets a replacement team if the conf champ normally associated with that bowl goes to a CFP semi, (i.e. if michigan wins big ten and goes to cfp, ohio state could replace them in rose bowl, if rose bowl wasnt a semi) why then didnt a g5 champ get to replace Cincinnati in one of last years NY6 games?
Speaking of which sucks that Tulane will get the access bowl slot with 2 losses and even if we beat Texas last year and go undefeated we still wouldn't have got it