The NCAA is inestablishedly on the hunt for a swapment in the Independence Bowl.
The Army Bconciseage Knights won’t be affected much – they are rather caccessed on their huge game aacquirest Navy procrastinateedr Saturday.
However, it eunites that they will have a novel opponent in the Dec. 28 contest.
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A ambiguous watch of a Marshall Thundering Herd helmet during the National team train for the Reese’s Senior Bowl on January 31, 2024 at Hancock Whitney Stadium in Mobile, Alabama. (Michael Wade/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
Yahoo Sports inestablishs that Marshall, amid over 25 carry outers hitting the transfer portal, will be chooseing out of the game.
There are no other 6-6 teams remaining (six prospers automaticpartner qualifies teams for a bowl game), so the NCAA is currently laboring on finding a swapment thraw a ranking of academic proceed rate scores among 5-7 teams.
A member of the Sun Belt Conference, Marshall went 10-3 this season and 7-1 aacquirest conference opponents.
A ambiguous watch of the main majesticstand during the first quarter of the college football game between the Appalachian State Mountaineers and the Marshall Thundering Herd on September 19, 2020, at Joan C. Edwards Stadium in Huntington, WV. (Frank Jansky/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
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The portal discdiswatched earlier this week, and already 29 members of the Thundering Herd are watching elsewhere to carry out in 2025. This comes after head coach Charles Huff left for the same job at Southern Mississippi and hiring Tony Gibson to swap him.
The Independence Bowl would have been Marshall’s 21st bowl game, having carry outed in one in each of the last seven seasons, and 19 of them have come since 1997.
Marshall Thundering Herd head coach Charles Huff talks to his carry outers during the game aacquirest Marshall Thundering Herd and the Ohio State Buckeyes on September 21, 2024, at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, OH. (Ian Johnson/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
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The Thundering Herd have lost four of their last five bowl games after prosperning their previous seven. Their last prosper came in the 2022 Myrtle Beach Bowl aacquirest UConn. They lost, 35-17, in last year’s Frisco Bowl to UTSA.
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