teams can petition for a waiver after the first season if they can show the meet the requirements to be considered full FBS status (meaning they offer the full amount of scholarships while still meeting all Title IX requirements). I guess Delaware and Missouri State meet the requirements.

The Sun Belt was really good about getting them into a proper FBS schedule right away. Both years JMU played enough FBS teams, etc. But the NCAA denied their waiver (at least in year two) even though they were obviously ready. My how times have changed in just three years. The NCAA apparently gave out three waivers!

Delaware and Mo State were willing to do that.

a FCS school in transition is ineligible to receive a waiver. The 2-year transition defines specific scholarship requirements for the first and second years. First year's numbers still qualifies as FCS and the second number qualifies as FBS. Plus, the bowl games could have gone the same route that allows them to select a team with a losing record (i.e. Miss State selected to play Wake in the Duke's Mayo Bowl with a 5-7 record). Hence why I think both schools were already offering full FBS numbers in terms of scholarships at the start of the season.

Kenn State, Mo State, and Delaware. The NCAA trashed their rules to make that happen.

football game, if two schools agree to accept invitations, if a media company is willing to buy rights, who do we (or who does the NCAA) think we are to get in the way? It's just more football that we can choose to watch or to ignore. Every year we see calls to eliminate these pesky bowl games. Your objection is different in that you just question them on the grounds of NCAA rules. But why? I say, "Line-up and kick-off."

they announced their decision and where that date falls within the fiscal year. If they started the transition last year and made themselves ineligible to compete for the NCAA DI Playoffs, then it is possible this season could count as the second year of transition. I know JMU tried to go that route, but I think they made the announcement after the deadline which made it easy for the NCAA Committee to reject their request for a waiver. I know there was at least 1 school since 2000 who only needed the 1 year to complete the transition and it received the waiver in the second year because it satisfied all the requirements, but I am drawing a blank on the name at the moment. I do think you are probably right that the NCAA Committee is ignoring its own rules here for business reasons. However, I did think of another plausible scenario that is slightly different than the one I included in my previous post.