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This article is about the contracted bowl tie-ins for the 2010-2011 season. For the actual teams selected, see 2010-11 NCAA football bowl games.

The teams that participate in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I Football Bowl Subdivision earn the right to compete in a series of post-season games called bowl games. For all 35 bowl games in the 2010-11 NCAA college football bowl season, bowl games are contractually obligated to offer bids to specific conferences, a situation known as a "tie-in". The top five bowl games in the nation select their teams as part of a coalition known as the Bowl Championship Series. The remaining 30 bowl games have individual contracts with the conferences to offer preferential bids to teams from those conferences. As long as teams are bowl eligible, they may be selected by these bowls to meet these contracts.

BCS games

The Bowl Championship Series consists of 5 games, the Rose Bowl, Fiesta Bowl, Orange Bowl, and Sugar Bowl, as well as the BCS Championship Game. A composite system of computer rankings and human polls is used to rank the teams in the Division I–Football Bowl Subdivision. At the end of the season, the top two ranked teams meet in the championship game; the remaining eight slots are filled by the champions of six conferences (the Big Ten Conference, Pacific-10 Conference, Atlantic Coast Conference, Southeastern Conference, Big 12 Conference, and Big East Conference) and up to four "at-large" selections who finished the season ranked in the top 14 in the BCS rankings. These at-large selections can be granted to any FBS team, even those that aren't members of the six BCS conferences, though no conference may have more than two BCS teams in any given year with the sole exception being if two at-large teams from a BCS Conference finish No. 1 and No. 2 in the BCS Poll, they will qualify for the National Title Game while their Conference Champion will play in another BCS Game.

Even in the five BCS bowls, consideration is given to historic associations between the conferences and the bowl games themselves. Tie-ins still apply, unless a team obligated to a certain bowl game is selected for the BCS Championship Game. In that case, their slot is filled by an at-large school. Any bowl that loses a contracted team to the Championship Game gets first pick of the eligible at-large schools.

BCS Games Conference Conference
Rose Bowl Game presented by Vizio Pac-10 Big Ten
Tostitos Fiesta Bowl Big 12 At-Large
Discover Orange Bowl ACC At-Large
Allstate Sugar Bowl SEC At-Large
BCS Championship Game BCS #1 BCS #2

NOTE: The Big East is in the "At-Large" pool.

2010-11 Non-BCS bowl games

The 30 bowls that are not part of the BCS have contractual ties to specific conferences. For the 2010-11 bowl season, all 30 bowls have at least two tie-ins, meaning that there are no at-large spots open in these bowls, assuming that all conferences produce enough bowl eligible teams. Many bowls also have contingency contracts to offer spots to other specific conferences should their first choice not be eligible. If any slot cannot be filled by a contracted conference at all, then the spot becomes open, and the bowl can offer the slot to any eligible team.

To be eligible, a team must not have a losing record in the FBS. If a school plays 12 games, they must have at least six wins to qualify. If a school plays 13 games, they must then have at least seven wins to qualify. Additionally, bowls may not tender a bid to any team with a 6-6 record as long as there are eligible seven-win teams to choose. The contracts specify that the bowl receives a certain choice of teams, and this choice is typically not predicated on end-of-season rankings. For example, the Alamo Bowl has the third choice of Big 12 schools. That means that they may choose any eligible team after the first two bowls (in this case the BCS and the Cotton Bowl Classic) have chosen their teams from the Big 12. However, some conferences have special selection parameters written into their contracts with specific bowls—for example, the Capital One Bowl is contractually obligated to select the winningest Big Ten and SEC teams that do not make a BCS game, or a team within one win of the winningest in its conference, and the MAC's bowl contracts require that both division champions, if eligible, receive bids to one of its three contracted bowls.

Bowl Game Conference/Team Conference/Team
Capital One Bowl Big Ten #2 SEC #2
Gator Bowl SEC Big Ten
AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic Big 12 #2 SEC #3/4/5
Bridgepoint Education Holiday Bowl Big 12 #3 Pac-10 #2
Outback Bowl Big Ten #3 SEC #3/4/5
Chick-fil-A Bowl ACC #2 SEC #3/4/5
Hyundai Sun Bowl Pac-10 #3 Big 12 #5 / Big East #2 / Notre Dame
Valero Alamo Bowl Big 12 #4/5 Big Ten #4
Champs Sports Bowl ACC #3 Big East #2 or ND
AutoZone Liberty Bowl C-USA #1 SEC #8/9 or Big East #5
Meineke Car Care Bowl ACC #4 Big East #3
Advocare V100 Independence Bowl ACC #7 MWC #3
Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl ACC #5 SEC #6/7/8
New Era Pinstripe Bowl Big East #4 Big 12 #7
Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl ACC #6 Pac-10 #4/5
Texas Bowl Big 12 #8 Navy or C-USA #7
UDrove Humanitarian Bowl MAC WAC #1
Insight Bowl Big 12 #6 Big Ten #6
Dallas Football Classic Big Ten Big 12/C-USA
Little Caesars Pizza Bowl Big Ten #7 MAC #1, 2 or 3
Sheraton Hawaiʻi Bowl C-USA #2 WAC #3 / Hawaiʻi
Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl MWC #3/4 or Army C-USA #3 or Army
Maaco Bowl Las Vegas MWC #1 Pac-10 #4/5
SDCCU Poinsettia Bowl MWC #2 Navy
GoDaddy.com Bowl Sun Belt #2 MAC #1, 2 or 3
R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl C-USA #4 Sun Belt #1
Birmingham Bowl Big East #5 SEC #8/9
New Mexico Bowl MWC #3/4 WAC #2
Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl Big East #6 C-USA #5
Military Bowl ACC #8 or MAC #4 Army or C-USA #6

Order of selection

Teams must be bowl eligible to be selected for a bowl game. Should a conference not have enough eligible teams to meet their obligations, the bowls at the end of the selection process are free to choose a replacement team from among any remaining bowl eligible teams that are not already committed to bowl game. Bowls must select from teams with winning records when choosing a replacement team, unless there are no such teams left, then they may choose a 6-6 team. Should less than 68 teams be bowl eligible, all bowl eligible teams must be placed in bowls before non-eligible teams may be selected.

If a conference provides an "at-large" selection to the BCS, the remaining bowls still select in the same order. Should a conference like the Big 12 receive an "at-large" bid from the BCS, their remaining bowl tie-ins would be affected. The Cotton Bowl Classic would then have the third (and not second) selection from the Big 12, and all remaining bowls would be shifted accordingly. This increases the likelihood that the last bowls will have eligible teams to choose from.

Atlantic Coast Conference

2010-2013:[1]

Big 12 Conference

2010-2013:[2]

  • #1 Bowl Championship Series. In 2010 the winner of the Big 12 Championship Game receives an automatic berth in a BCS Bowl game, preferentially the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl. Effective with the 2011 season, the Big 12 regular season champion will receive said berth.
  • #2 The Cotton Bowl Classic receives the second choice of Big 12 teams.
  • #3 The Alamo Bowl receives the third choice of Big 12 teams.
  • #4 The Insight Bowl receives the fourth choice of Big 12 teams.
  • #5 The Holiday Bowl receive the fifth choice of Big 12 teams.
  • #6 The Texas Bowl receives the sixth choice of Big 12 teams.
  • #7 The Pinstripe Bowl receives the seventh choice of Big 12 teams.
  • #8 The Dallas Football Classic receives the eighth choice of Big 12 teams following the 2010 and 2012 seasons, while the Military Bowl receives the eighth choice of Big 12 teams following the 2013 season. In addition the Dallas Football Classic or the Military Bowl will have the eighth choice of Big 12 teams if the bowl's primary partners are not available following the 2011 season.

Big East Conference

The Big East Conference has seven bowl tie ins, up to six of which choose a Big East school in any given year.[3]

2010-2013:

Big Ten Conference

The Big Ten Conference has eight bowl tie-ins.[4]

  • #1 Bowl Championship Series. In the 2010 season, the Big Ten regular season champion gains an automatic berth to a BCS bowl game, preferentially the Rose Bowl. Effective with the 2011 season, the winner of the Big Ten Championship Game will receive said berth.
  • #2 The Capital One Bowl receives the second choice from the Big Ten, but must choose from remaining teams with the best overall record, or within one win of the best overall record. Starting in 2011, they may choose to take the runner up of the Big Ten Championship Game should their record be better than the league champion.
  • #3 The Outback Bowl receives the third choice of Big Ten teams.
  • #4-5 The Gator Bowl and the Insight Bowl receive the fourth and fifth choice of Big Ten teams.
  • #6 The Texas Bowl receives the sixth choice of Big Ten teams.
  • #7 The Dallas Football Classic receives the seventh choice from the Big Ten.
  • #8 The Little Caesar's Pizza Bowl will take the eighth choice from the Big Ten; if no remaining teams are available, the bowl will choose a Sun Belt team.

Conference USA

Conference USA has five regular bowl tie-ins, with a contingency to fill a spot in two more games.[5]

Mid-American Conference

The Mid-American Conference has three regular bowl tie-ins, with a contingency to fill a spot in a fourth game. The champions of the two MAC divisions are guaranteed to go to one of the three bowl games.[9]

  • #1 The Little Caesars Pizza Bowl receives the first choice of MAC teams, though it is not required to take the MAC champion.
  • #2 The GoDaddy.com Bowl receives the second choice of MAC teams.
  • #3 The uDrove Humanitarian Bowl receives the third choice of MAC teams.
  • #4 The Military Bowl normally has the eighth choice from the ACC, however in years where there are not eight eligible ACC teams, they may select a MAC team (and did so in 2009).

Mountain West Conference

The Mountain West Conference has five bowl tie-ins.[10]

Pacific-10/12 Conference

The Pacific-10 Conference (to be renamed the Pacific-12 as of the 2011-12 season with the addition of University of Utah and University of Colorado) has six bowl tie-ins.[11]

2010 (as Pacific-10); 2011-2013 (as Pacific-12):

Southeastern Conference

The Southeastern Conference has nine bowl tie-ins.[12]

Sun Belt Conference

The Sun Belt Conference has two guaranteed bowl tie-ins, with a contingency to fill up to three additional bowl slots.[13]

  • #1 The New Orleans Bowl plays host to the champion of the Sun Belt conference.
  • #2 Starting in 2011, the GoDaddy.com Bowl will host the second selection from the Sun Belt.
  • #3-5 The Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl, Birmingham Bowl, and Independence Bowl have agreed to give precedence to a Sun Belt Conference team should the conferences that normally send teams to those bowl games not have enough bowl eligible teams. In years where more than one of these bowls has available slots, they may select teams from the Sun Belt conference in the order given.

Western Athletic Conference

The Western Athletic Conference has three regular bowl tie-ins, with a contingency to fill a spot in a fourth game.[14]

  • #1 The Humanitarian Bowl will host the WAC champion, unless that team is selected by the Bowl Championship Series. In that case, the bowl will get the first selection among the remaining WAC teams.
  • #2 The New Mexico Bowl receives the second choice of WAC teams.
  • #3 The Hawaiʻi Bowl will host the University of Hawaiʻi team if it has at least seven wins, and is not selected by the BCS (which happened in the 2007 season). In years where Hawaiʻi does not qualify, the bowl will receive the third choice of the remaining eligible WAC teams.
  • #4 The Poinsettia Bowl will select a top WAC team for 2011 & 2012.
  • #5 The Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl will have the first or selection from the WAC in 2010 & 2013 unless that team is selected by the Bowl Championship Series.

Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl Partners Poinsettia Bowl Partners

Division I FBS Independents

Of the three independent Football Bowl Subdivision teams, there are contractual agreements to play in certain bowl games should they become bowl eligible. All three of these teams remain eligible for selection as a replacement team when the conferences do not have enough eligible teams to meet their obligations.

Notre Dame

  • Is eligible for selection by the BCS if they finish in the top 14 of the final BCS standings, and automatically qualifies as an at-large selection in the BCS in years where it finishes in the top 8 of the BCS rankings.[3][15]

Army

Deviations for the 2008-09 season

Because several conferences were unable to meet their contracted obligations as they did not have enough bowl eligible teams, several bowl games selected "at-large" replacements for the 2008-09 season. These were:

  • The Hawaiʻi Bowl was contracted to take either the sixth selection from the Pac-10 or the seventh selection from C-USA. Neither conference was able to meet their obligation, so the bowl selected Notre Dame instead.
  • The Motor City Bowl was contracted to take the seventh selection from the Big Ten. However, as Ohio State was chosen as an at-large BCS selection, the conference was not able to provide a team. The bowl selected Florida Atlantic out of the Sun Belt instead.
  • The Independence Bowl was contracted to take the seventh selection from the Big 12 and the eighth selection from the SEC. However, as Texas and Alabama were both chosen as at-large BCS selections, neither conference was able to provide a team. Though an agreement had been reached to choose an eligible team from the Sun Belt conference,[13] they selected Louisiana Tech out of the WAC and Northern Illinois out of the MAC as replacements instead. Louisiana Tech, which ended the regular season 7–5, was selected because NCAA rules prohibit the use of contingency agreements to give a 6–6 team access to a bowl over an otherwise eligible team with 7 or more wins. No additional 7-win teams were available by the time the Independence Bowl filled its second slot.
  • The PapaJohns.com Bowl was contracted to take the ninth selection from the SEC, however they did not have enough bowl eligible teams. Though an agreement had been reached to choose an eligible team from the Sun Belt conference,[13] they selected NC State out of the ACC instead. In this case, there were no 7-win teams available to that bowl.
  • The Texas Bowl was contracted to take the eighth selection from the Big 12. As the Big 12 did not have enough bowl eligible teams, the bowl selected Western Michigan out of the MAC instead.

Changes for the 2010-11 season

Several bowls and conferences are negotiating new bowl contracts, which take effect beginning with the 2010-11 bowl season:

  • The Alamo Bowl and the Pacific-10 Conference (to be renamed the Pacific 12 in 2011) finalized a four-year deal for the Pac-10/Pac-12 #2 selection, which previously competed at the Holiday Bowl, in an apparent replacement of the Big Ten selection. The Alamo Bowl's payout will increase to $3 million per year.[21]
  • The Champs Sports Bowl finalized a four-year deal with the Big East Conference, which will see the bowl have the #2 selection of Big East teams. The Champs Sports Bowl will be able to select Notre Dame once during the four-year agreement, so long as Notre Dame has at least a 7-5 record and is within two wins of an eligible Big East team.[22] The bowl also agreed to bring back the Atlantic Coast Conference, and will get the #3 pick of ACC teams.[23]
  • The Emerald Bowl, which would become the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl in 2010, reached an agreement with the Western Athletic Conference, Navy, Army, and the Pacific-10/12 Conference. The Pac-10/12 will give its #6 selection to the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl in each of the four years. Army will play in the game in 2011 if it is eligible, and Navy will play in 2012 if it is eligible. The WAC will send its #1, #2 or #3 team in 2010 and 2013, and will provide alternate selections in 2011 and 2012.[24]
  • The GoDaddy.com Bowl has agreed to allow the Sun Belt Conference to send a team from that conference and give them a second permament berth in the bowl season, joining the New Orleans Bowl as games with berths for the SBC.
  • The Gator Bowl finalized an agreement with the Southeastern Conference and the Big Ten Conference. The Gator Bowl will alternate with the Insight Bowl for the Big Ten's #4 and #5 picks, while the bowl will have no lower than the #6 pick of SEC teams.[25]
  • With the closing of the International Bowl, the Humanitarian Bowl finalized an agreement with the Mid-American Conference to send a team to that game starting in 2010.
  • The Independence Bowl agreed to a deal with the MWC and the ACC. The Independence Bowl will have the #3 selection of Mountain West teams and the #7 selection of ACC teams.[26]
  • The Poinsettia Bowl reached an agreement with the WAC, Navy, Army, and the MWC, as they will continue to send their #2 team to San Diego. The other tie-in will be shared by the WAC, Navy, and Army, mirroring the Emerald Bowl deal. Navy will participate in 2010 if they are eligible, and Army will participate in 2013 if they are eligible. The WAC will send its #1, #2 or #3 team in 2011 and 2012, and will provide alternate selections in 2010 and 2013.[27]
  • The Sun Bowl reached an agreement with the Atlantic Coast Conference and the Pacific-10/12 Conference. The Sun Bowl will have the fifth selection of ACC teams and the fourth selection of Pac-10/12 teams.[28]
  • The Texas Bowl finalized agreements with the Big 12 Conference and the Big Ten. The Texas Bowl will continue its relationship with the Big 12 and will now have the Big 12 #6 selection[29], and will also have the Big Ten #6 selection.[30]
  • Three tentative new bowl games were scheduled for 2010-11; two of them were approved by the NCAA in April 2010 and will become part of that season's bowl schedule. The first of the approved bowls, called the Pinstripe Bowl, was announced on September 30, 2009. The new contest will pit the Big East against the Big 12 at Yankee Stadium in New York City. The Pinstripe Bowl will have the third or fourth selection of Big East teams and the seventh selection of Big 12 teams.[31] The other approved bowl game, tentatively called the Dallas Football Classic, was announced on October 14, 2009. It will give the Big Ten and Conference USA a shot at another bowl. The game will be played in the Cotton Bowl Stadium, as the AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic has been moved to Cowboys Stadium. This game is tentatively scheduled for January 1, 2011. The Cure Bowl was scheduled to be played at Bright House Networks Stadium on the Orlando, Florida campus of the University of Central Florida, but did not receive NCAA approval. It would have featured members of Conference USA and the Sun Belt Conference, and would have given the SBC a permanent third bowl tie-in.

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