The WAC only has one bowl commitment, but that does not mean that the conference will only have more than one bowl team. There are many possibilities for a variety of reasons.
1. North Carolina is under a post-season ban this year.
2. Ohio State and Penn State are also under a post-season ban.
3. Army and Navy appear not to be bowl eligible this year.
4. Conference-USA has 6 bowl slots, including substituting for Army in the Military Bowl. C-USA may only have 3 bowl eligible teams. At most, they will have 5. Their priorities will be the Liberty Bowl, Armed Forces Bowl and Hawaii Bowl. The New Orleans Bowl, Beef O' Brady's Bowl and Military Bowl may be vacant.
The WAC should have 3 bowl eligible teams and there should be 3 or more open bowls for WAC teams. Here is how I think it will shake out.
Utah State--Idaho Famous Potato Bowl
San Jose State--Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl (As a Substitute for Navy)
Louisiana Tech--New Orleans Bowl (For C-USA)
UTSA is not bowl eligible this year. Bummer.
I do not think the WAC standings will matter a whole lot. If these bowls are available, this is where the WAC teams will go.
WAC Power Rankings
1. Louisiana Tech
2. Utah State
3. San Jose State
4. UTSA
5. Texas State
6. Idaho
7. New Mexico State
Jerry Palm at CBS thinks that one bowl game will be canceled because there will not be enough bowl-eligible teams. There is a contingency to allow a 5-7 team to play in a bowl game once all of the eligible 6-6 teams have been placed. Personally, I think they should give an exception to UTSA first.
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