The NCAA is reportedly on the hunt for a substitute within the Independence Bowl.
The Military Black Knights will not be affected a lot – they’re reasonably targeted on their large sport towards Navy later Saturday.
Nevertheless, it seems that they’ll have a brand new opponent within the Dec. 28 contest.
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A normal view of a Marshall Thundering Herd helmet throughout the Nationwide staff apply for the Reese’s Senior Bowl on January 31, 2024 at Hancock Whitney Stadium in Cellular, Alabama. Â (Michael Wade/Icon Sportswire by way of Getty Pictures)
Yahoo Sports activities experiences that Marshall, amid over 25 gamers hitting the switch portal, will probably be opting out of the sport.
There aren’t any different 6-6 groups remaining (six wins robotically qualifies groups for a bowl sport), so the NCAA is presently engaged on discovering a substitute via a rating of educational progress fee scores amongst 5-7 groups.
A member of the Solar Belt Convention, Marshall went 10-3 this season and 7-1 towards convention opponents.
A normal view of the primary grandstand throughout the first quarter of the school soccer sport 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 by way of Getty Pictures)
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The portal opened earlier this week, and already 29 members of the Thundering Herd are trying elsewhere to play in 2025. This comes after head coach Charles Huff left for a similar job at Southern Mississippi and hiring Tony Gibson to interchange him.
The Independence Bowl would have been Marshall’s twenty first bowl sport, having performed in a single in every of the final seven seasons, and 19 of them have come since 1997.
Marshall Thundering Herd head coach Charles Huff talks to his gamers throughout the sport towards Marshall Thundering Herd and the Ohio State Buckeyes on September 21, 2024, at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, OH. (Ian Johnson/Icon Sportswire by way of Getty Pictures)
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The Thundering Herd have misplaced 4 of their final 5 bowl video games after profitable their earlier seven. Their final victory got here within the 2022 Myrtle Seashore Bowl towards UConn. They misplaced, 35-17, in final yr’s Frisco Bowl to UTSA.
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