A Look At The Bowl Eligible College Football Teams

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With only a few weeks left in the college football season there are a number of teams still in need of wins in order to become bowl eligible.

Among the 11 BCS conferences, only the Big 12, Big Ten, MAC and WAC have enough bowl eligible teams to meet each conference’s bowl tie-ins.

The Sun Belt Conference has two bowl tie-ins, but none of its teams are currently bowl eligible. The Mountain West has six bowl tie-ins, but only four of its members are bowl eligible and BYU is the only team with a chance to win the required number of six games.

The SEC and Conference USA are each one team short of having the number of bowl eligible teams to meet their bowl tie-ins. The Big East, ACC and Pac-10 are all currently well short of having the number of eligible teams to meet their conference’s bowl tie-ins.

As for the Independents, Navy and Army have both won at least six games while Notre Dame needs one more victory to become bowl eligible.

You can see each conference’s bowl tie-ins here and the 2010-2011 college football bowl game schedule here.

ACC (Nine Bowl Tie-ins & BCS Bowl Berth for Conference Champion)

Bowl Eligible (6): Florida State (7-3), Maryland (7-3), North Carolina State (7-3), Miami (FL) (7-3), North Carolina (6-4), Virginia Tech (8-2)

Not Quite (3): Boston College (5-5), Clemson (5-5), Georgia Tech (5-5)

No Bowl For You (3): Virginia, Duke, Boston College

Big 12 (Seven Bowl Tie-ins & BCS Bowl Berth for Conference Champion)

Bowl Eligible (7): Nebraska (9-1), Missouri (8-2), Kansas State (6-4), Oklahoma State (9-1), Texas A&M (7-3), Oklahoma (8-2), Baylor (7-4)

Not Quite (1): Texas Tech (5-5)

Must Win Out (2): Texas (4-6), Iowa State (5-6), Colorado (4-6)

No Bowl For You (1): Kansas

Big East (Six Bowl Tie-ins & BCS Bowl Berth for Conference Champion)

Bowl Eligible (3): Syracuse (7-3), South Florida (6-3), West Virginia (6-3)

Not Quite (4): Pittsburgh (5-4), Connecticut (5-4), Louisville (5-5), Rutgers (4-5)

Must Win Out (1): Cincinnati (3-6)

Big Ten (Seven Bowl Tie-ins & BCS Bowl Berth for Conference Champion)

Bowl Eligible (7): Michigan State (9-1), Ohio State (9-1), Wisconsin (9-1), Iowa (7-3), Michigan (7-3), Northwestern (7-3), Penn State (6-4)

Not Quite (1): Illinois (5-5)

Must Win Out (2): (Purdue 4-6), Indiana (4-6)

No Bowl For You (1): Minnesota

SEC (Nine Bowl Tie-ins & BCS Bowl Berth for Conference Champion)

Bowl Eligible (8): South Carolina (7-3), Florida (6-4), Kentucky (6-5), Auburn (11-0), LSU (9-1), Alabama (8-2), Arkansas (8-2), Mississippi State (7-3)

Must Win Out (3): Georgia (5-6), Tennessee (4-6), Ole Miss (4-6)

No Bowl For You (1): Vanderbilt

Pac-10 (Six Bowl Tie-ins & BCS Bowl Berth for Conference Champion)

Bowl Eligible (3): Oregon (10-0), Stanford (9-1), Arizona (7-3)

Not Quite (3): California (5-5), UCLA (4-5), Oregon State (4-5)

Must Win Out (1): Washington (3-6)

No Bowl For You (3): USC, Arizona State, Washington State

C-USA (Six Bowl Tie-ins)

Bowl Eligible (5): Central Florida (7-3), East Carolina (6-4), Southern Miss (7-3), Tulsa (7-3), UTEP (6-5)

Not Quite (2): SMU (5-5), Houston (5-5)

Must Win Out (2): Marshall (4-6), Tulane (4-6)

No Bowl For You (3): Memphis, UAB, Rice

MAC (Four Bowl Tie-ins)

Bowl Eligible (5): Temple (8-2), Ohio (7-3), Miami (OH) (6-4), Northern Illinois (8-2), Toledo (6-4)

Must Win Out (2): Kent State (4-6), Western Michigan (4-6)

No Bowl For You (6): Buffalo, Bowling Green, Akron, Ball State, Central Michigan, Eastern Michigan

Mountain West (Six Bowl Tie-ins)

Bowl Eligible (4): TCU (11-0), Utah (8-2), San Diego State (7-3), Air Force (7-4)

Not Quite (1): BYU (5-5)

No Bowl For You (4): UNLV, Colorado State, New Mexico, Wyoming

Sun Belt (Two Bowl Tie-ins)

Bowl Eligible (0):

Not Quite (3): Troy (5-4), Florida International (4-5), Florida Atlantic (4-5)

Must Win Out (3): Middle Tennessee (3-6), Louisiana-Monroe (4-6), Arkansas State (4-6)

No Bowl For You (3): North Texas, Louisiana-Lafayette, Western Kentucky

WAC (Four Bowl Tie-ins)

Bowl Eligible (4): Boise State (9-0), Hawaii (7-3), Nevada (9-1), Fresno State (6-3)

Must Win Out (3): Louisiana Tech (4-6), Idaho (4-6), Utah State (4-6)

No Bowl For You (2): New Mexico State, San Jose State

Independents

Bowl Eligible (2): Navy (7-3), Army (6-4)

Not Quite (1): Notre Dame (5-5)