Interesting Bowl Facts

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beej1953

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Some bowl facts and figures:
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The ACC has 10 teams in the postseason, the most ever for any league. While the ACC has no elite teams this season, it does have a lot of solid teams - and that shows with the number of bowl bids.
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Four bowl-eligible teams were left home: Arkansas State of the Sun Belt, Bowling Green of the MAC, Louisiana-Lafayette of the Sun Belt and San Jose State of the WAC. All four were 6-6. In addition, Bowling Green fired its coach last week. (MY NOTE - I GUESS THIS EXPLAINS WHY A SORRY NOTRE DAME TEAM SNUCK IN!)
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There are nine 6-6 teams in bowls.
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The conference breakdown: The ACC has 10; the SEC has eight; the Big Ten and Big 12 have seven; the Big East, Conference USA and the MAC have six; the Mountain West, Pac-10 and WAC have five; and the Sun Belt has two. There also are two independents.
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The Big 12, Pac-10 and SEC each left two bowl slots unfilled. The Big Ten left one. The breakdown: The Big Ten couldn't fill its Motor City slot; the Big 12 couldn't fill its Independence and Texas slots; the Pac-10 couldn't fill its Hawaii and Poinsettia slots; and the SEC couldn't fill its Independence and Papajohns.com slots.

This is from the same article that rated all the bowl games for watchability (we're #13 out of 34)

http://collegefootball.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=886661
 
Those are some interesting fact. I will be sure to pass these along to people who don't read these boards.
 
Thanks, that's some good stuff.

In case anyone's wondering, I believe that this is the third time a league has had 10 bowl-eligible teams, but the first time any league has actually had 10 teams get invited to bowls.

I've seen some confusion about that point before so that's the explanation. Pretty good for "crappy" conference.
 
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