Week 4 College Football Bowl Projections
It's been an unprecedented time for the Sun Belt. Just last week, the league enjoyed the best week in conference history with two road wins over top-10 opponents and a first-ever visit by College GameDay at Appalachian State.
Recently, the league received even more good news. Because the Sun Belt added four new schools this season and Conference USA lost three members, the Sun Belt will receive an additional bowl tie-in this year, sources told Action Network.
The Sun Belt, now with 14 members, could get six bids, instead of five, while C-USA, now down to 11 members, will drop from seven bowl bids to six, sources said. These bowl tie-ins do not include if either conference earns the Group of Five’s New Year's Six bowl bid.
With the Sun Belt's additional bowl tie-in, here's how the 84 bowl bids will be divided by conference (if each league has the required number of bowl-eligible teams to fill those bowls). These would be the minimum number of bowl bids by conference:
- SEC, 10
- ACC/Notre Dame, 10
- Big Ten, 9
- Pac-12, 8
- Big 12, 7
- AAC, 7
- C-USA, 6
- MAC, 6
- Mountain West, 6
- Sun Belt, 6.