The Wolf Pack football team is bowl eligible.
That doesn’t meant the Wolf Pack football team is headed to a bowl game.
The Mountain West has seven bowl tie-ins this season, although the Hawaii or Las Vegas Bowl will go to BYU, leaving six spots for MW teams. The conference currently has five bowl-eligible teams in Nevada, Boise State, Air Force, San Diego State and New Mexico. Two more teams – Utah State, which Nevada plays Saturday, and Colorado State – are one win away from bowl eligibility.
If the Aggies and Rams both win a sixth game, which seems likely, that would leave seven teams for six slots, potentially leaving one bowl-eligible team on the outside looking in, like San Jose State in 2013.