Late Night Takes: Early Bowl Season Outlook
We are a little less than 2 months away from the most wonderful time of year. Yes, that includes Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s, but it also means Bowl Season.
I know there are people out there that like to make jokes about a team only needing 6 wins to become bowl eligible and I just don’t get it. But, that’s a different story for a different day.
I personally enjoy bowl season and wish that it would be more like “March Madness” for college basketball. Yeah, you can’t have brackets outside of the 4 College Football Playoff teams. But, you can do a college football bowl pick ’em with your friends, co-workers, etc and that helps get you interested in all the bowl games. The whole reason fantasy sports and march madness bracket challenges are big is because these types of games help keep fans engaged in games that they would not necessary be interested in. And honestly, there are very few bowl games that are necessarily blowouts and most of the time they are entertaining because coaches love to pull out all the stops in these games.
So, to help get you ready for bowl season, each week until the end of the regular season I will do a “Late Night Takes” on the latest bowl eligible teams and teams that are eliminated from the postseason.
As of October 23, there are 28 teams already bowl eligible of the 78 available bowl game slots And there are 6 teams who have been officially eliminated from postseason contention.
Bowl Eligible Teams:
Alabama
Auburn
LSU
Georgia
Ohio State
Penn State
Michigan State
Wisconsin
USC
Washington
Washington State
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
TCU
Clemson
N.C State
Miami (FL)
Virginia Tech
Notre Dame
Army
USF
UCF
Memphis
Colorado State
San Diego State
Toledo
Ohio
Marshall
Bowl Eligible Teams by Conference:
ACC: 4, SEC: 4, Big 10: 4
AAC: 3, Big 12: 3, PAC 12: 3
Mountain West: 2, MAC: 2, Independents: 2
Conference USA: 1
Sun Belt: 0
Teams Officially Eliminated From Bowl Eligibility:
Baylor
North Carolina
Nevada
Bowling Green
Charlotte
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Stay tuned for the next “Late Night Takes” on the latest happenings in PITT Athletics and the college sports world.
