New NCAA Bowl Rules

The NCAA has a little problem.  The current bowl schedule requires 70 bowl eligible teams and that has been a struggle for the past few years.  I keep hearing there will be a movement to reduce the number of bowls but nothing ever seems to happen.

The problem is compounded by the fact that four teams are now facing a bowl ban this season and there could be two more.

So, the NCAA has adopted a new method of allowing bowls to "dip" into the pool of teams that were not already eligible based on the current standards (6-6, only one FCS win) and those are pretty meager to start with.

You can check it out in this article.  A bowl can only rely on these double secret exceptions once every four years.

I never know, but I figure eventually these rules will be used to send some 6-6 BCS team to a bowl game over a qualified MAC team.  I hope to be wrong about that.