In the case that the SEC does not have enough bowl-eligible teams, another bowl eligible team will be selected instead.

December 6, 2011 - UCLA becomes the first bowl-eligible team to lose a total of eight games in a season.

Boise State replaced the representative from the Pac-10, since it did not an extra bowl-eligible teams to spare for this game.

At the end of the 2008 season, the WAC had six bowl-eligible teams, five of which participated in bowl games.

With this victory, Notre Dame became this season's final undefeated major bowl-eligible team in college football.

Akron, notably, had been the only bowl-eligible team willing to accept an invitation to be left out of the 2004 bowl games.

However, the ACC only produced seven bowl-eligible teams in 2009.

If neither conference had a bowl-eligible team, the spot would have been filled by an at-large team.

An upset of Penn State could make them the league's eighth bowl-eligible team.

Air Force was one of three bowl-eligible teams in the Mountain West during the 2002 season.