HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- There's a good chance that Conference USA Commissioner Britton Banowsky could find himself with more bowl-eligible teams that he'd know what to do with. Well, that's not exactly true. He knows what to do with them - find them all good homes in the postseason once the rest of the conferences shake out.
That's not a bad problem to have if you can get seven or maybe eight of your 14 teams into bowls in one year. Marshall's win over the University of Alabama at Birmingham gave C-USA a definite six, filling up the conference's guaranteed bowl slots.
Florida Atlantic has a soft enough schedule to potentially win out and become the seventh. Louisiana Tech could pull some upsets and get to six wins. And if the Football Bowl Subdivision can't field 70 eligible teams for its bowls (though it likely will), the University of Texas at San Antonio could sneak in to the picture.
But here's the flipside: For as many C-USA teams that could make the bowl list, how many are found on the Top 25 lists of college football, even in the "also receiving votes" group?
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