CBS Sports will update this page weekly throughout the remainder of college football’s 2022 regular season. This is because more and more teams are qualifying for a bowl prior to the college football playoffs and the bowl selection process. For a complete set of college football bowl projections, Visit Jerry Palm’s dedicated page.
An FBS team must win at least 6 wins with a minimum winning percentage of .500 to be officially bowl eligible.A total of 82 teams are required to fill all 41 bowl games. A team can only count his one win against his FCS opponent towards the total number of wins required to qualify for the Bowl.
After Week 9’s games, there are officially 36 bowl-qualified teams, with 46 spots still open.
For weekly bowl predictions, college football ranking predictions, and full coverage of leads through the 2022-23 bowl season, visit CBS Sports here.
2022-23 Bowl Qualifying Teams
|
AAC |
Four |
Cincinnati, East Carolina, Tulane, UCF |
|
ACC |
Five |
clemson, nc, nc, syracuse, wake forest |
|
big 12 |
3 |
Kansas, Oklahoma, TCU |
|
big ten |
Five |
Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania |
|
C-USA |
1 |
UTSA |
|
independent |
1 |
freedom |
|
Mac |
1 |
Toledo |
|
MWC |
2 |
Boise, Wyoming |
|
Pac-12 |
6 |
Oregon, Oregon, UCLA, Utah, USC, Washington |
|
SEC |
Five |
Alabama, Georgia, LSU, Ole Miss, Tennessee |
|
sun belt |
3 |
Coastal Carolina, South Alabama, Troy |
|
total team |
36 |
one more win
The teams below are listed in order of APR (indicated in parentheses). Each team’s next opponent is listed (date in parentheses if not next week). The tie break is April of the previous year.
- Air Force (994) Anti-Army
- Louisville (988) vs. James Madison
- Minnesota (988) vs Nebraska
- Duke of Boston University (985)
- Notre Dame (984) vs. Clemson
- South Carolina (984) Vanderbilt
- Mississippi (982) vs. Auburn
- Eastern Michigan (978) Akron (8 Nov)
- Oklahoma Baylor (975)
- Texas (971) Kansas
- Kentucky (971) Missouri
- Purdue (970) vs. Iowa
- Oklahoma (968) vs Baylor
- Ohio Buffalo (968)
- Ohio (965) vs. Buffalo
- Kansas (961) v Oklahoma
- San Jose (961) vs. Colorado
- West Kentucky (960) Charlotte
- North Texas (960) vs FIU
- Florida in Miami (958)
- Arkansas (957) vs. Liberty
- Georgia Southern (952) vs South Alabama
- Houston at SMU (948)
- Southern Mississippi (934) v Georgia
good luck next year
These teams no longer qualified for the bowl due to their total wins and number of games remaining on their schedule.
