The NCAA football oversight committee is expected this week to provide guidelines for matching bowls with sub.-500 teams if there are not enough bowl-eligible squads to fill the record 80 postseason spots available this year.
Bowl officials are hoping the committee, which is led by Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby, can provide some order to a potentially disorganized situation.
“I think we’ll still get to 80. If we don’t, I have confidence the NCAA will work out all of those details,” said Wright Waters, executive director of the Football Bowl Association.
There are 71 teams that have met the minimum bowl-eligibility requirement of six wins and at least a .