Back in 2015, the NCAA passed a rule saying football teams with five wins could be bowl eligible, citing a growing number of postseason games and the all too realistic possibility that there wouldn’t be enough teams who won half their games to fill them. In the event there weren’t enough, the NCAA would start with the teams with the highest APR at five wins and work their way down the list to find ones to fill out the games. Yeah, sub-.500 teams in the postseason seemed lame, but the NCAA was at least handing it to teams who performed well academically (“important” to them), the schools get a little extra exposure, some teams get some extra practices they weren’t expecting, and the players get some nifty bowl swag.
Pac-12 teams now need 6 wins to play in bowl games, which is dumb
