Right now a bowl cannot take a team unless it has a 6-6 record or better. This December a bowl could be in a situation where it has to petition the NCAA for a waiver to take a 5-7 team.Apparently, the NCAA is worried about "litigation in case there aren’t enough teams with at least six wins to fill the bowls."
In the event that there were to be a shortage of bowl eligible teams, common sense says the bowls that would be most at risk would be:
- Bowls with "at-large" tie-ins
- Bowls that pick at the bottom of their conference tie-in pecking order
- Bowls with the smallest payouts
- The least prestigious bowls
| Bowl | Affiliations | Pay Out Per Team |
| PapaJohns.com Bowl (B'ham) | CUSA vs. Big East #5 | $300,000 |
| Armed Forces Bowl (Ft. Worth) | MWC vs. Pac 10 #6 | $750,000 |
| Sheraton Hawai'i Bowl | CUSA vs. WAC | $750,000 |
| Las Vegas Bowl | Pac 10 #4/5 vs. MWC #1 | $1 million |
| New Mexico Bowl | MWC vs. WAC | $750,000 |
| St. Petersburg Bowl (New) | Big East vs. CUSA | TBD |
When the music stops playing and the last two bowls go looking for a dancing partner, who gets the shaft? ESPN will be right there battling for the final teams, and they don't exactly fight fair.
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