SEC Bowl Selction Process

[Hatchertiger]

[Hatchertiger]

Wondering if enough SEC teams will qualify for all the SEC spots this year.

[Herb]

Valid question. 

Bowl eligibility is defined as:

 

For the 2018–19 bowl season, a team must meet the following criteria to participate in a bowl game:

1. The team must have at least as many wins as overall losses. Wins against non-Division I teams do not count toward the number of wins.^[2]
2. No more than one win against an FCS team may count toward that win total, and only if the FCS team has awarded at least 90% of the scholarships that FCS rules allowed it to award over the last two years.^[2] (Currently, that means that wins against Ivy League, Pioneer Football League, and Northeast Conference teams and Georgetown do not count.) The requirement that the FCS team must have awarded 90% of its allowed scholarships may be waived if a "unique or catastrophic situation" prevented the FCS team from meeting that requirement.^[2]
3. A team that has a losing record only because it lost its conference championship game remains eligible for a bowl.^[2]

If there are not enough eligible teams to fill all the bowl slots, additional teams may be selected, according to the following priorities, which must be applied in descending order:^[2]

1. Teams which would have met the eligibility criteria if not for the fact that they had one win against an FCS team that didn't meet the scholarship requirement and no waiver was granted.^[3]
2. Teams which played 13 games during the regular season and finished with a 6–7 record.^[3] (This criterion normally applies only to Hawaii and some of its home opponents.)
3. Teams in their second year of reclassification from FCS to FBS football.^[3]
4. Teams with at least 5 wins and no more than 7 losses, in order of their Academic Progress Rates.^[3]

 

 

 

[Nutriaitch]

1 hour ago, Hatchertiger said:

Wondering if enough SEC teams will qualify for all the SEC spots this year.

i can answer that already.  No they will not.

SEC is putting at least one in the playoffs. 

that leaves 10 more tie-ins for a total of 11 spots. 

with 4 teams already officially out of bowl contention (USCe , Vandy, Arky, Ole Urine) they have only 10 potentially eligible teams for those 11 spots. 

Miss St needs to win out (Abilene Christian & Ole Urine) to remain eligible.  Egg Bowl (in Starkville) will decide this.

Tenn, KY, and Mizzou all need at least one more win.  

Tenn and Mizzou play this weekend, so one of them is in.  The other must win last game of season.   Tenn closes season against Vandy ; Mizzou against Arky.  So it’s at least plausible they both make it. 

KY gets UT-Martin and Louisville, so they should be in as well.