2017-2018 College Football Bowl Affiliations

[Greenrex]

http://collegefootballnews.com/2017/college-football-bowl-ties-affiliations-conference-2017-2018

 

[ChristopherRyanWilkes]

Hawaii for St Petersberg, I guess that's an improvement. Especially vs. ACC.

[UNT Mean Green]

Hope that we can go right back down to the Heart of Dallas versus a lower tier Big 10 opponent and win the game. 

[Matt from A700]

NORTH

[UNT 90 Grad]

TEXAS?

[oldguystudent]

Reality of the situation:  

There are mostly P5 vs P5 bowls and G5 vs G5 bowls.  

There are so many bowls now that conference tie-ins are mostly moot as the bowls scramble to fill all their spots.  

Bowls with P5 vs G5 are becoming fewer and farther in between.  

I'm shocked!  Shocked I tells ya! 

For the 2016 bowl season, I see the following:

BYU vs. Wyoming -- Poinsettia Bowl (considering BYU a P5 is in the discretion of the viewer)

Wake Forest vs Temple -- Military Bowl

Baylor vs Boise St -- Cactus Bowl

USF vs. South Carolina -- Birmingham Bowl

W. Michigan vs Wisconsin -- Cotton Bowl

So of forty bowl games, 4.5 of them pitted G5 vs P5.  That's 11.25% and shrinking each year.