{"id":335,"date":"2018-12-14T12:29:01","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T12:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/?p=335"},"modified":"2018-12-14T16:08:37","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T16:08:37","slug":"2018-college-football-whos-going-bowling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/2018-college-football-whos-going-bowling\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 College Football Who’s Going Bowling?"},"content":{"rendered":"

2018 College Football Bowls Who Is Playing<\/h1>\n

The 2018 College Bowl season is almost upon us again and sadly this year 4 teams who were eligible to compete had to be left out as there were not enough slots in the 39 Bowl line up. Still there is plenty to look forward to and this is how the conferences fared.<\/p>\n

ACC<\/h2>\n

Has 11 Bowl places joint most with the SEC. Clemson is in the playoffs but no other team made the New Year Six<\/a> <\/span>bowls.<\/p>\n

Eligible<\/strong><\/p>\n

Boston College<\/span><\/p>\n

Clemson<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Duke<\/span><\/p>\n

Georgia Tech<\/span><\/p>\n

Miami<\/span><\/p>\n

NC State<\/span><\/p>\n

Pittsburgh<\/span><\/p>\n

Syracuse<\/span><\/p>\n

Virginia<\/span><\/p>\n

Virginia Tech<\/span><\/p>\n

Wake Forest<\/span><\/p>\n

AAC<\/h2>\n

Got 7 teams Bowl eligible which is as many as two of the Power 5 Conferences. They also had the only undefeated team in the power five (UFC) and they took the \u201cAt Large\u201d slot in the New Year BCS Bowl again this season.<\/p>\n

Eligible<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cincinnati<\/p>\n

Houston<\/p>\n

Memphis<\/p>\n

South Florida<\/p>\n

Temple<\/p>\n

Tulane<\/p>\n

UCF<\/p>\n

Big Ten<\/h2>\n

Nabbed 9 places including two BCS Bowl slots (The Rose Bowl & The Peach Bowl) but missed out on a playoff place<\/p>\n

Eligible<\/strong><\/p>\n

Iowa<\/p>\n

Michigan<\/p>\n

Michigan State<\/p>\n

Minnesota<\/p>\n

Northwestern<\/p>\n

Ohio State<\/p>\n

Penn State<\/p>\n

Purdue<\/p>\n

Wisconsin<\/p>\n

Big 12<\/h2>\n

Only took 7 slots this year however Oklahoma are in the playoffs again and Texas are in the Sugar Bowl so not a bad season.<\/p>\n

Eligible<\/strong><\/p>\n

Baylor<\/p>\n

Iowa State<\/p>\n

Oklahoma<\/p>\n

Oklahoma State<\/p>\n

TCU<\/p>\n

Texas<\/p>\n

West Virginia<\/p>\n

Conference-USA<\/h2>\n

Only managed 6 slots this year (down from 9 in 2017). The main highlight was UAB who have risen Phoenix Like from their disbandment back in 2014. They will be hoping its 3rd<\/sup> time lucky as they have lost both of their previous Bowl appearances. Spare a thought for Southern Miss who got Bowl eligible on the final day of the season but got left out as 82 teams became eligible for the 78 slots.<\/p>\n

Eligible Teams<\/strong><\/p>\n

Florida International (FIU)<\/p>\n

Louisiana Tech<\/p>\n

Marshall<\/p>\n

Middle Tennessee<\/p>\n

North Texas<\/p>\n

Southern Miss \u2013 Missed out<\/p>\n

UAB<\/p>\n

Independent<\/h2>\n

A great season for the 6 independent schools and with Liberty being ineligible only two missed out. Notre Dame went undefeated and are in the playoffs while Army had their best season in a long time going 10-2<\/p>\n

Eligible<\/strong><\/p>\n

Army<\/p>\n

BYU<\/p>\n

Notre Dame<\/p>\n

MAC<\/h2>\n

Had 7 teams eligible but like C-USA only 6 got places with Miami (Ohio) being the unfortunate ones left out. Nice to See Buffalo in a game having been left out last season<\/p>\n

Eligible<\/strong><\/p>\n

Buffalo<\/p>\n

Eastern Michigan<\/p>\n

Miami (Ohio) \u2013 Left out<\/p>\n

Northern Illinois<\/p>\n

Ohio<\/p>\n

Toledo<\/p>\n

Western Michigan<\/p>\n

Mountain West<\/h2>\n

Again Seven eligible teams but only 6 slots, with a now Josh Allen less Wyoming the unfortunate team who missed out. They had a great season finishing 6-6 hconsidering they lost their star QB so here hoping 2019 is better for them.<\/p>\n

Eligible<\/strong><\/p>\n

Boise State<\/p>\n

Fresno State<\/p>\n

Hawaii<\/p>\n

Nevada<\/p>\n

San Diego State<\/p>\n

Utah State<\/p>\n

Wyoming \u2013 Left out<\/p>\n

Pac-12<\/h2>\n

Not a vintage season for the Pac-12 with no playoff place and only Washington in a New Year Bowl. Having said that Washington State were fun to watch, and they looked like crashing the NY^ party until the snow got the better of them in the Apple Cup.<\/p>\n

Eligible<\/strong><\/p>\n

Arizona State<\/p>\n

California<\/p>\n

Oregon<\/p>\n

Stanford<\/p>\n

Utah<\/p>\n

Washington<\/p>\n

Washington State<\/p>\n

SEC<\/h2>\n

Another strong season for the SEC with 11 teams in Bowl games and Alabama odds-on favourites to win the national Championship (again) The also have 4 teams in the New Year Bowl Games.<\/p>\n

Eligible<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alabama<\/p>\n

Auburn<\/p>\n

Florida<\/p>\n

Georgia<\/p>\n

Kentucky<\/p>\n

LSU<\/p>\n

Mississippi State<\/p>\n

Missouri<\/p>\n

South Carolina<\/p>\n

Texas A&M<\/p>\n

Vanderbilt<\/p>\n

Sun Belt<\/h2>\n

Only managed 6 Bowl Eligible teams and Louisiana\u2013Monroe got left out. Still, they open the Bowl season tomorrow in the Cure Bowl and look likely to pick up a few wins.<\/p>\n

Eligible<\/strong><\/p>\n

Appalachian State<\/p>\n

Arkansas State<\/p>\n

Georgia Southern<\/p>\n

Louisiana<\/p>\n

Louisiana\u2013Monroe Left out<\/p>\n

Troy<\/p>\n

So 40 Games to look forward to including the National Championship of course. Full Schedule here<\/a><\/p>\n

Image\u00a0Angel-DiBilio\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2018 College Football Bowls Who Is Playing The 2018 College Bowl season is almost upon us again and sadly this year 4 teams who were eligible to compete had to be left out as there were not enough slots in the 39 Bowl line up. Still there is plenty to look forward to and this…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[64,28],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-bowls","tag-college-bowl","tag-college-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":362,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions\/362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}