Deseret News · Dec 22, 2015
Brad Rock: Successful season hinges on USU's bowl performance
BOISE — Out on the fringes of respectability, at programs where a lot of things went wrong this season, there are teams that shouldn’t be in bowl games. Only highly dedicated college football fans can actually name those teams, mainly because they didn’t make much news in 2015.
Three teams (San Jose State, Nebraska, Minnesota) were 5-7 going into the postseason. From 2001-2014, with fewer bowls, only four losing teams qualified.
Additionally, there are a dozen teams this year that went 6-6 (Utah State, Arizona, Georgia State, Connecticut, Washington, Indiana, Tulsa, Virginia Tech, Nevada, Auburn, Kansas State, Arizona State).
None of them moonwalked into the bowl season.