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Bowls

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Teams

Predictions

New Mexico Bowl Dec. 18 Albuquerque, NM 2:00 ESPN WAC MWC #4/5 UTEP* BYU**
Humanitarian Bowl Dec. 18 Boise, ID 5:30 ESPN WAC MAC #3 Fresno State Northern Illinois
New Orleans Bowl Dec. 18 New Orleans, LA 9:00 ESPN C-USA #2/3/4/5/6 Sun Belt #1 Ohio? Florida International
St. Petersburg Bowl Dec. 21 St. Petersburg, FL 8:00 ESPN C-USA #2/3/4/5/6 Big East #61 Southern Miss* South Florida
Las Vegas Bowl Dec. 22 Las Vegas, NV 8:00 ESPN Pac-10 #5 MWC #1 Boise State* Utah**
Poinsettia Bowl Dec. 23 San Diego, CA 8:00 ESPN Navy/WAC MWC #2 Navy** San Diego State**
Hawaii Bowl Dec. 24 Honolulu, HI 8:00 ESPN WAC C-USA #2/3/4/5/6 Hawaii** Tulsa**
Little Caesars Pizza Bowl Dec. 26 Detroit, MI 8:30 ESPN Big Ten #81 MAC #1 MTSU? Toledo
Independence Bowl Dec. 27 Shreveport, LA 5:00 ESPN2 ACC #7 MWC #3 Georgia Tech Air Force**
Champs Sports Bowl Dec. 28 Orlando, FL 6:30 ESPN Big East #2/ND ACC #3 West Virginia NC State
Insight Bowl Dec. 28 Tempe, AZ 10:00 ESPN Big 12 #4 Big Ten #4/5 Oklahoma State Iowa
Military Bowl Dec. 29 Washington, D.C. 2:30 ESPN ACC #8 C-USA #2/3/4/5/6 Maryland East Carolina**
Texas Bowl Dec. 29 Houston, TX 6:00 ESPN Big 12 #6 Big Ten #6 Baylor Illinois
Alamo Bowl Dec. 29 San Antonio, TX 9:15 ESPN Pac-10 #2 Big 12 #3 Arizona Nebraska
Armed Forces Bowl Dec. 30 Dallas, TX 12:00 ESPN Army/C-USA #2/3/4/5/6 MWC #4/5 Army** SMU**
Pinstripe Bowl Dec. 30 New York, NY 3:20 ESPN Big 12 #73 Big East #4 Kansas State** Syracuse**
Music City Bowl Dec. 30 Nashville, TN 6:40 ESPN SEC #7 ACC #6 Mississippi State North Carolina
Holiday Bowl Dec. 30 San Diego, CA 10:00 ESPN Pac-10 #3 Big 12 #5 Washington Missouri
Car Care Bowl Dec. 31 Charlotte, NC 12:00 ESPN ACC #5 Big East #3 Clemson Pittsburgh
Sun Bowl Dec. 31 El Paso, TX 2:00 CBS ACC #4 Pac-10 #4 Miami (FL) Notre Dame?
Liberty Bowl4 Dec. 31 Memphis, TN 3:30 ESPN C-USA #1 SEC #8/9 Central Florida** Georgia
Peach^ Bowl Dec. 31 Atlanta, GA 7:30 ESPN ACC #2 SEC #5 Florida State South Carolina
TicketCity Bowl2 Jan. 1 Dallas, TX 12:00 ESPNU Big 12 #8 Big Ten #7 Texas Tech Northwestern
Outback Bowl Jan. 1 Tampa, FL 1:00 ABC SEC #3/4 Big Ten #3 Florida Penn State
Capital One Bowl Jan. 1 Orlando, FL 1:00 ESPN SEC #2 Big Ten #2 Alabama Michigan State
Gator Bowl Jan. 1 Jacksonville, FL 1:30 ESPN2 SEC #6 Big Ten #4/5 Tennessee Michigan
Rose Bowl Jan. 1 Pasadena, CA 5:10 ESPN BCS (Big Ten #1) BCS (Pac-10 #1) Wisconsin** TCU
Fiesta Bowl Jan. 1 Glendale, AZ 8:30 ESPN BCS (Big 12 #1) BCS (At-large) Oklahoma** Connecticut
Orange Bowl Jan. 3 Miami, FL 8:30 ESPN BCS (ACC #1) BCS (At-large) Virginia Tech** Stanford
Sugar Bowl Jan. 4 New Orleans, LA 8:30 ESPN BCS (SEC #1) BCS (At-large) Arkansas Ohio State
GoDaddy.com Bowl Jan. 6 Mobile, AL 8:00 ESPN Sun Belt #2 MAC #2 Troy Miami (OH)
Cotton Bowl Jan. 7 Arlington, TX 8:00 FOX Big 12 #2 SEC #3/4 Texas A&M* LSU
BBVA Compass Bowl1 Jan. 8 Birmingham, AL 12:00 ESPN SEC #8/9 Big East #5 Kentucky Louisville
Fight Hunger Bowl Jan. 9 San Francisco, CA 9:00 ESPN Pac-10 #6/ACC WAC/ACC Boston College Nevada*
BCS Championship Game Jan. 10 Glendale, AZ 8:30 ESPN BCS #1 BCS #2 Auburn Oregon

Teams 6-6 or better that need at-large bids: Temple (8-4), Western Michigan (6-6)

Old predictions
Past years: 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999

BCS Selection Process for 2010-2014:
The order of selection is as follows:
1. The top 2 teams go to the national title game and conference champs of the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-10, and SEC go to their games.
2. The bowls that lose their automatic qualifiers get to replace them first. The bowl that would have the #1 team goes first if both teams lost their bowls. The first bowl may not take a team from the same conference as the #2 team without permission. In addition, the first year the Rose Bowl loses a team to the championship game and a non-BCS conference team qualifies, that team must go to the Rose.
3. The remaining bowls pick automatic qualifiers and at-large teams in the reverse order when they will be played (so, this year, the order is Sugar, Orange, and then Fiesta).
4. After the selections are made, the conferences (and Notre Dame) can adjust the pairings to take the following factors into account:
    a) Whether the same team will be playing in the same bowl for two straight years
    b) Whether the two teams played against each other in the regular season
    c) Whether the two teams played each other in a bowl game last year
    d) "Whether alternative pairings may have greater or lesser appeal to college football fans as measured by expected ticket sales for the bowls and by expected television interest, and the consequent financial impact on ESPN and the bowls."
The pairings cannot result in a situation that removes the Big Ten or Pac-10 champion from the Rose Bowl.

What is an automatic qualifier? Well, here are the criteria (in order):
1. You finish in the top two of the standings.
2. You are the champion of the ACC, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-10, or Southeastern Conference.
3. You are a the champion of C-USA, the MAC, the spo, the Sun Belt, or the WAC and you:
    a) Are ranked in the top 12
    b) Or are in the top 16 and ranked above a team that qualifies under rule 2.
    No more than one team meeting these provisions may get an auto-berth and the highest ranked team gets it.
4. Notre Dame will qualify if they are ranked 8th or higher.
5. If the 3rd ranked team has not earned an automatic berth by this point and there are less than 10 qualifiers, then that team gets it as long as no team in its conference is in the national title game. This team must be from an auto-qualifier conference.
6. If the 4th ranked team has not earned a berth by this point and there are less than 10 qualifiers, then that team gets it as long as no team in its conference is in the national title game. This team must be from an auto-qualifier conference.

If there are fewer than 10 automatic qualifiers, then any team in the top 14 with at least 9 wins can be picked as an at-large team. No more than two teams from any conference can be selected. If no team in the top 14 qualifies, then the pool expands to the top 18 teams, and so on in blocks of 4 teams. 

Source: http://www.bcsfootball.org/news/story?id=4819597

The ACC bowl selection criteria are buried in the massive media guide (warning: huge PDF) on PDF page 14. 

Overall eligibility: The 2010-2011 NCAA Division I Manual (warning, PDF) bylaw 18.7.2 governs Division I-A football eligibility. The NCAA defines a "deserving team" as a team with an equal number of wins and loss, i.e, a record of 6-6 and better against DI-A opponents. For the purposes of this record, a team is also allowed to count one DI-AA win as well. A waiver may be granted for a conference champion with a record worse than 6-6. Note that it is no longer a requirement that all above .500 teams are selected before 6-6 teams.

1 = Sun Belt to the rescue! For 2010-2013, the Sun Belt will be the first source of back up teams for the following bowls: St. Petersburg, BBVA Compass, and the Little Casear's Bowl. In addition, the MAC can act as a backup for the Birmingham Bowl.
2 = Primary backup for either conference is the 7th pick from Conference USA. Secondary backup for either conference is a team from the MAC.
3 = Notre Dame, but only as a backup, not as a primary selection
4 = The Big East has some wacky agreement with the Liberty, Birmingham, and St. Petersburg Bowls. It seems like this year they will only send teams to the last two (at least that's what the other conferences involved seem to assume).

?=at-large because some conference couldn't fill its bids
* = Accepted invitation
** = Predicted correctly
^ = now known as the Chick-fil-a Bowl
A team in bold indicates that I predicted the winner correctly
A team in italics means that team won the game, but was not who I picked
A bold score means that I actually managed to pick the score correctly|
A team that is underlined
is the predicted winner