BCS Bowl Predictions: How Many Teams from Each BCS Conference Are In?

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Now that the regular season is done for almost conference, we can more accurately predict what teams will be going to the BCS Bowls. That said, it is still up in the air as to who will go where. The only thing we know for certain is that the Pac-12 and SEC will be sending two teams to the BCS.

Stanford is ranked fourth and doesn’t play another game until the bowl so it will definitely get a spot as will the winner of Oregon-UCLA. The SEC has teams in the top two spots and it is widely assumed that a rematch between LSU and Alabama will take place.

All of the other spots are really up for grabs. The Big East, ACC, Big Ten and Big 12 champions will get to go but none of those games are set in stone. Should Oklahoma lose to Oklahoma State, the Sooners would likely fall out of contention for a BCS Bowl but Kansas State could replace them because it is ranked 11th.

Virginia Tech could receive an at-large bid if it loses to Clemson but no college football analysts see that happening. What they do see happening, though, is Michigan sneaking in and getting a spot. It would have to be ranked in the Top 14 which it currently is not but that could change following the Big Ten Championship and a Georgia loss.

Speaking of Georgia, the SEC could get three teams in the BCS if Alabama and LSU are still ranked first and second following a Tiger loss to the Bulldogs who would then go to the Sugar Bowl.

The other major players in this will be Houston and TCU. Houston would receive an automatic bid should it beat Southern Miss and TCU would get that automatic bid if the Cougars lose and the Horned Frogs move into the Top 16.

It’s wild and crazy but the BCS wouldn’t allow anything different.

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