Sports Rivalries

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NCAA Football Bowl Record History

Best Bowl Records

2014: SEC 7-3

2013: WAC 2-0, Conference USA 4-1

2012: Big Twelve 6-2, MAC 4-1

2011: Mountain West 4-1

2010: Mountain West 4-1

2003: Big Ten 5-2

2010 Conference Re-Alignment

1-SEC-Southeastern (27.36): Bowl Record: 7-3

SEC Champion: Alabama

SEC over Conference USA (7-0): Mississippi State over Southern Mississippi, Alabama over Florida Atlantic, Mississippi State over UAB, Texas A&M over Rice, Auburn over Louisiana Tech, Arkansas over UAB, Vanderbilt over Old Dominion

SEC over American Athletic (4-1): Temple over Vanderbilt, South Carolina over East Carolina, Missouri over Central Florida, Texas A&M over SMU, Mississippi over Memphis State

SEC even with Big Ten (1-1): LSU over Wisconsin, Indiana over Missouri

SEC over Mountain West (3-0): Mississippi over Boise State, Tennessee over Utah State, Auburn over San Jose State

SEC over Big 12 (3-1): Alabama over West Virginia, Arkansas over Texas Tech, Oklahoma over Tennessee, Auburn over Kansas State

SEC over Sunbelt (6-0): Tennessee over Arkansas State, Mississippi over Louisiana-Lafayette, Mississippi State over South Alabama, LSU over Louisiana-Monroe, LSU over New Mexico State, Texas A&M over Louisiana-Monroe

SEC over MAC (5-0): Missouri over Toledo, Kentucky over Ohio Univ., Florida over Eastern Michigan, Vanderbilt over Massachusetts, Arkansas over Northern Illinois

2-PAC 12-Pacific Athletic Conference (37.42): Bowl Record: 4-3

PAC-12 Champion: Oregon

PAC-12 over Mountain West (10-2): Washington over Hawaii, Colorado State over Colorado, Arizona over UNLV, USC over Fresno State, Nevada over Washington State, Utah over Fresno State, Arizona State over New Mexico, Oregon State over Hawaii, Oregon over Wyoming, Arizona over Nevada, Colorado over Hawaii, Oregon State over San Diego State

PAC-12 over Big Ten (4-1): California over Northwestern, Oregon over Michigan State, Washington over Illinois, Rutgers over Washington State, Utah over Michigan

PAC-12 over ACC (1-0): UCLA over Virginia

PAC-12 over Big Twelve (1-0): UCLA over Texas

PAC-12 over American Association (1-0): UCLA over Memphis State

PAC-12 over Conference USA (1-0): Arizona over Texas-San Antonio

PAC-12 over MAC (1-0): Colorado over Massachusetts

PAC-12 over Independents (3-1): Stanford over Army, Arizona State over Notre Dame, USC over Notre Dame, BYU over California

PAC-12 over Sunbelt (1-0): Washington over Georgia State

3-Big Ten (46.50): Bowl Record: 2-5

Big Ten Champion: Ohio State

Mountain West Over American Association (2-1): Boise State over Connecticut, Houston over UNLV, Colorado State over Tulsa

Mountain West over Sunbelt (3-1): Air Force over Georgia State, Arkansas State over Utah State, New Mexico over New Mexico State, San Diego State over Idaho

Mountain West even with Conference USA (2-2): UTEP over New Mexico, Wyoming over Florida Atlantic, New Mexico over Texas-San Antonio, Rice over Hawaii

Mountain West over Independents (4-1): Utah State over BYU, Air Force over Navy, Nevada over BYU, Boise State over BYU, Navy over San Jose State

Hawaii, Fresno State, Boise State and Nevada to join Mountain West in 2011: Denver, Texas State and the University of Texas at San Antonio to WAC in 2012

8-MAC-Mid-American (92.23): Bowl Record 0-5

MAC Champion: Northern Illinois

MAC over Sunbelt (2-1): South Alabama over Kent State, Western Michigan over Idaho, Ohio University over Idaho

MAC over Mountain West (1-0) Northern Illinois over UNLV

Independents (66.25): Bowl Record: 2-1

11-Sun Belt Conference (104.64): Bowl Record: 2-0

Sun Belt Champion: Georgia Southern

BCS Future Bowl Schedule

Bowl-39	Team A	Team B	Featuring	Date
BCS Championship	Florida State	Alabama	Rose Bowl vs. Sugar Bowl	12-Jan-15
GoDaddy.com	Arkansas State	Toledo	Sunbelt vs. MAC	4-Jan-15
Birmingham Bowl	Florida	East Carolina	SEC vs. American	3-Jan-15
Armed Forces	Houston	Pittsburgh	American vs. Big 12 (Army)	2-Jan-15
Alamo	UCLA	Kansas State	PAC 12 vs. Big 12	2-Jan-15
TaxSlayer (Gator)	Iowa	Tennessee	ACC/Big Ten vs. SEC	2-Jan-15
Cactus Bowl	Utah	Oklahoma State	PAC 12 vs. Big 12	2-Jan-15
Sugar	Alabama	Ohio State	SEC vs. BCS	1-Jan-15
Rose	Florida State	Oregon	Big Ten vs. PAC 12	1-Jan-15
Outback	Wisconsin	Auburn	Big Ten vs. SEC	1-Jan-15
Cotton	Baylor	Michigan State	At-Large vs. At-Large	1-Jan-15
Citrus	Minnesota	Missouri	Big Ten/ACC vs. SEC	1-Jan-15
Orange	Mississippi State	Georgia Tech	Big Ten vs. ACC	31-Dec-14
Fiesta	Arizona	Boise State	At-Large vs. At-Large	31-Dec-14
Chick-fil-A (Peach)	TCU	Mississippi	At-Large vs. At-Large	31-Dec-14
Music City	Notre Dame	LSU	ACC vs. SEC	30-Dec-14
Belk	Georgia	Louisville	SEC vs. ACC	30-Dec-14
Foster Farms	Maryland	Stanford	Big Ten vs. PAC 12	30-Dec-14
Liberty	Texas A&M	West Virginia	SEC vs. Big 12	29-Dec-14
Russell Athletic	Oklahoma	Clemson	Big 12 vs. ACC	29-Dec-14
Texas	Arkansas	Texas	SEC vs. Big 12	29-Dec-14
Sun	Duke	Arizona State	ACC vs. PAC 12	27-Dec-14
Independence	North Carolina	South Carolina	ACC vs. SEC	27-Dec-14
Holiday	USC	Nebraska	PAC 12 vs. Big 10	27-Dec-14
Pinstripe Bowl	Boston College	Penn State	ACC vs. Big 12	27-Dec-14
Military	Virginia Tech	Cincinnati	ACC vs. American	27-Dec-14
Heart of Dallas	Louisiana Tech	Illinois	CUSA vs. Big Ten	26-Dec-14
Quick Lane (Little Caesar's)	Rutgers	North Carolina	Big Ten vs. ACC	26-Dec-14
St. Petersburg Bowl	Central Florida	North Carolina St.	American vs. ACC	26-Dec-14
Bahamas Bowl	Western Kentucky	Central Michigan	CUSA vs. MAC	24-Dec-14
Hawaii	Fresno State	Rice	MWC vs. CUSA	24-Dec-14
Poinsettia	Navy	San Diego State	Navy vs. MWC	23-Dec-14
Boca Raton Bowl	Marshall	Northern Illinois	CUSA vs. MAC	23-Dec-14
Beach Bowl	BYU	Memphis State	BYU vs. American	22-Dec-14
Las Vegas Bowl	Colorado State	Utah	MWC #1 vs. PAC 12 #6	20-Dec-14
New Orleans Bowl	Nevada	Louisiana-Lafayette	MWC vs. Sunbelt	20-Dec-14
New Mexico	UTEP	Utah State	CUSA vs. MWC	20-Dec-14
Idaho Potato Bowl	Western Michigan	Air Force	MAC vs. MWC	20-Dec-14
Camellia Bowl	Bowling Green	South Alabama	MAC vs. Sunbelt	20-Dec-14

Big Ten	Team	Pacific 12	Team	Big Twelve	Team	SEC	Team
Sugar	Ohio State	Rose	Oregon	Chick-fil-A (Peach)	TCU	Sugar	Alabama
Outback	Wisconsin	Holiday	USC	Cotton	Baylor	TaxSlayer (Gator)	Tennessee
Cotton	Michigan State	Fiesta	Arizona	Alamo	Kansas State	Citrus	Missouri
Citrus	Minnesota	Foster Farms	Stanford	Liberty	West Virginia	Outback	Auburn
Heart of Dallas	Illinois	Las Vegas	Utah	Cactus #5	Oklahoma State	Birmingham	Florida
Foster Farms	Maryland	Cactus	Washington	Russell Athletic	Oklahoma	Music City	LSU
Holiday	Nebraska	Alamo	UCLA	Texas	Texas	Chick-fil-A (Peach)	Mississippi
Pinstripe	Penn State	Sun	Arizona State	American Athletic	Team	Orange	Mississippi State
Quick Lane	Rutgers	Mountain West	Team	Birmingham	East Carolina	Liberty	Texas A&M
TaxSlayer (Gator)	Iowa	Las Vegas	Colorado State	St. Petersburg	Central Florida	Independence	South Carolina
ACC	Team	Poinsettia	San Diego State	Miami Beach	Memphis State	Texas	Arkansas
Rose	Florida State	New Mexico	Utah State	Armed Forces	Houston	Belk	Georgia
Orange	Georgia Tech	Hawaii	Fresno State	Military	Cincinnati	Conference USA	Team
Russell Athletic	Clemson	Potato	Air Force	Independents	Team	Heart of Dallas	Louisiana Tech
Pinstripe	Boston College	New Orleans	Nevada	Miami Beach	BYU	New Mexico	UTEP
Military	Virginia Tech	Fiesta	Boise State	Music City	Notre Dame	Hawaii	Rice
St. Petersburg	North Carolina St.	MAC	Team	Poinsettia	Navy	Bahamas	Western Kentucky
Quick Lane	North Carolina	GoDaddy.com	Toledo	Sunbelt	Team	Boca Raton	Marshall
Sun	Duke	Idaho Potato	Western Michigan	New Orleans #1	Louisiana-Lafayette
Independence	Miami-FL	Camellia #4	Bowling Green	Camellia #3	South Alabama
Armed Forces	Pittsburgh	Boca Raton	Northern Illinois	GoDaddy.com #2	Arkansas State
Belk	Louisville	Bahamas	Central Michigan

Conference	Bowl Commitments	Bowl Eligible
SEC	12	12
ACC	11	11
Big Twelve	7	7
Big Ten	10	10
Conference USA	8	5
American Ath.	7	6
PAC 12	8	8
Mountain West	7	7
MAC	6	5
Sunbelt	6	3
Independents	3	3
Totals	85	77

85 of 128 Division I teams were eligible by record for bowls. The SEC had 12 of 14 teams eligible, the ACC had 11 of 14 teams eligible, the Big Ten had 10 of 14 teams eligible, the Big 12 had 7 of 10 teams eligible, the Mountain West had 7 of 12 teams eligible, the MAC had 6 of 13 teams eligible, the Conference USA had 8 of 13 teams eligible, the Sunbelt had 6 of 11 teams eligible, and Independents had 3 of 4 teams eligible.

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