With a whopping 40 of them this year, bowl games have become college football's equivalent of the participation trophy. Seriously. There are 127 teams in the Football Bowl Subdivision, which means only about a third will miss out on the headphones,
The NCAA granted waivers to 6-7 teams in Georgia Tech in 2012 and UCLA in 2011 after both had appeared in their conference's championship games. North Texas in 2001 became the first five-win team to play in a bowl because it was the Sun Belt
The 2015 college football season wraps up with a record 41 bowl games, beginning Dec. 19 with the Celebration Bowl and wrapping up Jan. 11 with the national championship game (5:30 p.m. on ESPN) pitting the Orange Bowl winner and the Cotton Bowl
Bowl odds are out, and Alabama and Oklahoma are the favorites to advance to the national championship game, according to OddsShark. The Crimson Tide are favored by 10 points over Michigan State after opening as a nine-point favorite, while the
There are so many bowl games this year that there was actually a shortage of bowl-eligible teams following the regular season, and a few 5-7 teams — based on their academics, of all things — had to step up and fill some spots. In other words, means