Bowl Game Summary

All the bowl game, including the national championship game, have been played. So how did each of the conferences in the FCS level do.

First, there were two independent teams in the bowls (BYU and Notre Dame). BYU won its game. ND did not. so the independents went 1-1 or 50%.

Of the conferences with automatic qualifiers in BCS bowls:

• The ACC had eight teams in bowls. They won just two, a 25% record.
• The Big 12 also had eight teams in bowl games and won six of them, a 75% record.
• The Big East had just five teams in bowl games (smallest of the conferences) and won three of them, a 60% record.
• The Big Ten had a whopping 10 teams in bowl games (over 83% of their members) and won five of them, a 50% record.
• The PAC-12 had seven bowl teams and won just two, a 28.6% record.
• The SEC had nine teams in bowl games and won six, a 66.7% record.

All six AQ conferences ended with a 24-23 record.

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As to those conferences that do not have an automatic qualification with a BCS bowl:

• C-USA had five bowl teams and won four games (80%)
• The MAC had five bowl teams and won four (80%)
• The MtnWest also had five bowl teams and won two (40%)
• The Sun Belt had three bowl teams, winning one (33.3%)
• WAC had three bowl teams and won none (0%)

These conferences went 11-10 in their bowl appearance.

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Granted, the level of competition was quite varied, but I thought the powers that be did a pretty fine job in matching competitors and providing entertaining games.