College football’s bowl structure will not go over the fiscal and legitimate cliff come December after all. As of Sunday, 71 teams are eligible to compete for college football’s 70 bowl slots. Two more — UConn and Pittsburgh — could clinch bowl berths this weekend. If there weren’t enough bowl teams eligible, five 5-7 teams [...]

AMES — With one week remaining in college football’s regular season, bowl projections are on par with reading tea leaves or picking a number out of a hat. Most will miss their mark. “I tell you what, if (we) went and got a six pack of beer and a handful of darts, we’d probably be [...]

Projecting bowl match-ups is much easier in late July than late November. You pick the high-profile programs to smash their smaller counterparts without figuring in games like Jacksonville State dropping Ole Miss, James Madison stopping Virginia Tech or Iowa State popping Texas. Or Nevada upsetting Boise State. Or Minnesota whipping Iowa. If we knew the [...]

With two weeks to go in the college football regular season, the big-picture questions eventually will narrow and grow larger within the same context. The first big question: will a non-automatic qualifier such as Boise State or TCU play for the BCS Championship? I think so. I don’t see Auburn winning two games, and I [...]