Houston Will Be Without 15-20 Players For Its Bowl Game Because They Didn't Think Failing Classes Mattered

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This bowl season has been crazy even with only one game being played so far. Tennessee and South Carolina have had to back out of bowl games due to COVID issues. Army was originally left out of a bowl game with a 9-2 record before taking Tennessee's spot in the Liberty Bowl. But the situation at the University of Houston definitely takes the cake for the weirdest one yet.

The Cougars will be without more than a dozen players who apparently didn't know they'd be ineligible for the bowl game if they failed a class because it didn't count against their GPA. The Cardale Jones energy is palpable.

Every year there are a couple teams who end up having a guy or two out of bowl games because of grades or a violation of team rules on the trip or something like that. But this is certainly the first time I recall a team failing classes en masse to be ineligible. Did they all get together and decide to not go to class the entire semester because it was pass/fail and they thought it didn't affect anything? I'm genuinely confused.

However it ended up happening, Houston will take the cake for the weirdest way to be without 20 players in 2020 when it takes on Hawaii in the New Mexico Bowl.