Missouri still needs to beat Arkansas to become bowl eligible but the NCAA hasn't ruled yet on their July appeal of the ridicuous bowl ban penalty. In September the NCAA said they were close to a decision.
“If the timing of the release of the decision is after the time that the penalty would have applied, it is applied at the next available opportunity,” NCAA spokesperson Emily James said in an email to The Star’s Souichi Terada. “Generally, an appealed penalty is stayed during the appeal process. If the penalty is affirmed by the committee, the stay is released when the decision is publicly announced.”
Then there’s this: This entire situation could boomerang into a double-down on injustice for MU.
Meaning if the appeal is denied after a bowl bid has been accepted or however long down the road, MU evidently would face its bowl ban in the 2020 season, compounding the initial penalty.
Anticipating the question ahead about the effective impact, Sterk interjected that it would in essence be “a two-year penalty.”
Which would make this even more of a farce.