IF the Utes Finish With Six Wins? Veterans Day Edition.

The Utes have lost their sixth game of the season.  This means that they are only one loss away from bowl elimination for the first time since Ron McBride's last season on the Hill.  Even if they beat Arizona and Colorado, there is no guarentee of a bowl spot, as they could be the 9th team from the PAC-12 to be bowl eligible.

Here is how the BCS would work out if held today.

BCS Championship--Kansas State vs. Oregon
Rose Bowl--Notre Dame vs Nebraska
Fiesta Bowl--Oklahoma vs Georgia
Orange Bowl--Florida State vs Louisville
Sugar Bowl--Alabama vs Clemson

Stanford would just miss out on getting to the Rose Bowl because Georgia and Clemson are ranked ahead of them.  It appears that the SEC will have 2 teams in the BCS even if UGA loses in the Conference Championship because Florida, LSU, Texas A&M and South Carolina are right behind the bulldogs.  Florida State and Clemson are in the same division in the ACC and have already played each other.  If these two teams win out, then they will get the ACC auto bid and the last at-large bid.  Then if one of those two loses, then Oklahoma is next.  Stanford has to leapfrog both Oklahoma and either FSU or Clemson to get to the BCS or hope that Oregon loses.  One of the at-large teams would replace the PAC-12 in the Rose Bowl, if there is only one PAC-12 team and that team goes to the BCS Championship and that appears to be Notre Dame as there will be no representation from a non-AQ team.

Here is how the rest of the PAC-12 bowls look

Stanford--Alamo
Oregon State--Holiday
UCLA--Sun
USC--Las Vegas
Washington--Kraft Fight Hunger
Arizona State--New Mexico
Arizona--???
Utah--???

CBS sportsline has the Utes projected to the Independence Bowl, the Wildcats in the New Mexico Bowl and the Sun Devils in the Military Bowl.