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I don't want to get ahead of ourselves and starting making plans for late December, but there are some interesting scenarios where there might not be 70 bowl eligible teams.

ACC - wont fill it's 9 slots. No one can fill UNC's bowl ban

B12 - 8th slot on the bubble. Baylor could spoil it for Iowa ST and both could miss the post season.

BE - 6th slot on the bubble. USF could be a spoiler for The bubble teams.

B10 - 8th slot on the bubble. Purdue and Minnesota could spoil it for each other

CUSA - not going to fill it's 6 slots. No way Marshall, Houston and SMU all go .500

MAC - will get an extra bowl slot

MWC - fills their 5 slots

PAC - fills their 7 and takes an extra

SEC - 9th slot on the bubble. An extra BCS slot might create a hole

SBC - will get an extra bowl slot

WAC - will get an extra slot

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I was looking at some of the eligibility possibilities earlier too. It's probably too much to hope that IF a Big 10/12 team didn't fill the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl slot, and IF UNT was bowl eligible, that we would end up in that one. On the off chance that it happens, I'm only an hour away and could easily make it there and help everybody find good, cheap lodging as well as some great food and activities. Of course, the Fiesta Bowl will be right down the road too, so if any of you decide to go to that one for whatever reason, be sure to let me know in advance and I'll be happy to meet up with you.

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Also, if you look at the remaining schedules of the bubble teams, there would be some tricky combinations of wins to have just 1 spot unfilled in some places. I can see a very decent possibility of the Big East being unable to fill 2 of the 6 spots, and the Big 10 not filling 2 of their 8, especially having 2 automatically ineligible teams. I agree about the ACC and they are another that may leave 2 open spots. I also agree that MWC will likely fill their 5, and CUSA will only hit 4 or 5 of their 6. Also of note is that BYU has an automatic berth in the Poinsettia Bowl; in the unlikely event that either NMSU or Idaho upset them, that's another opening (I don't see them winning either of their other 2 games but who knows). So there's a good chance that the range of new openings will be anywhere from 0-9 depending on how the next month or so goes.

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CFN has updated their bowl projections, they have...

Big East short for Beefy bowl, WAC gets the extra

CUSA short for the NO Bowl, MAC gets the extra

SEC short for Indy bowl, B12 gets the extra

They also say CUSA short for Hawaii bowl, but have ECU in the game

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CFN has updated their bowl projections, they have...

Big East short for Beefy bowl, WAC gets the extra

CUSA short for the NO Bowl, MAC gets the extra

SEC short for Indy bowl, B12 gets the extra

They also say CUSA short for Hawaii bowl, but have ECU in the game

Well that's 4, but we'll see how the rest plays out; I can see a few more holes opening up waiting to have their slots filled :lolu:

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The travesty of it is that if the CUSA is out to screw SMU (which they would be) and if the Big 10 can't fill its slots (which it can't) among many of the possibilities is an SMU -UNT game for the Heart of Dallas Bowl.

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