The additional game means that teams from the remaining conferences in Division I-A will have greater opportunities to participate in a major postseason bowl.

Because of N.C.A.A. sanctions, Kentucky will not be permitted to play in a postseason bowl.

In 1980, the two schools played in their first and only postseason bowl, the 1980 Fiesta Bowl.

Wisconsin won consecutive postseason bowl games for the first time ever with a 34-20 win over Duke in the Hall of Fame Bowl.

According to the NCAA, it doesn't count as an official bowl game since this game isn't a postseason bowl.

As a quarterback he led the then-Rainbows to their first postseason bowl game in 1989.

The final rankings were released November 29 even before the regular season had concluded, and without consideration of the postseason bowl games.

It proved to be his first as a head coach without a postseason bowl game appearance.

The final rankings were made on November 28, after the regular season and without consideration of the postseason bowl games:

The 2011 campaign was the team's first winning season in many years, resulting in a postseason bowl berth.