Which conference will finish with the best record?
Greetings, BBN!
Bowl Season is in full gear now with a whopping eight games taking place yesterday before the Sunday break! A lot has changed since our first update on the 22nd.
The American has taken the standings by storm, improving from 1-1 to 6-1 with wins from East Carolina, Army, UTSA, South Florida (in 3OT), and Navy. East Carolina and Navy, neither of whom even played in the conference title game, knocked off ACC and SEC opponents!
Meanwhile, the ACC has been walking through a Christmas nightmare ever since these bowls started. Just about everything that could’ve gone wrong over the last two weeks has, and the conference is 1-9 with three bowls left. The only winner has been Syracuse in the Holiday Bowl. One way or another, every other team has been taken down so far from CFP-makers SMU and Clemson to 6-6 North Carolina and NC State.
Let’s take a look at the standings so far on the night of December 28th:
College Football Bowl Season Standings
Notes:
- The MAC is performing excellently—with seven bowling teams, every one of them has found a way to win, except for Bowling Green and Western Michigan. Toledo even managed to knock off the Pitt Panthers in 6OT, but given how the ACC has bowled this year, that might not be saying much.
- The SEC has been doing pretty well, but not perfect. Oklahoma got bested by Navy by a point in the Armed Forces Bowl, and Texas A&M couldn’t handle 6-6 USC in Las Vegas. Thus, the Aggies finish 8-5 but with a 5-3 SEC record.
- The First Responder Bowl will likely decide who wins these bowl standings. If North Texas wins over Texas State for the American, then it’ll finish 7-1, and whatever the Big 12 and Big Ten do won’t be enough to catch it. If it loses, though, a .750 percentage is attainable for several other leagues if they ball out.