NBL Bowl Outlook 10/21/2009

This past weekend really flipped things upside down across many conferences. The unexpected losses of Ohio State to Purdue, Kansas to Colorado, Nebraska to Texas Tech and Auburn to Kentucky have made me really shuffle things around in the big conferences which have pushed out some of the smaller conference teams looking to get an “at-large” bowl invite when conference commitments can’t be filled.

National Championship	Florida	Texas
Rose Bowl	Iowa	Oregon
Orange Bowl	Miami, FL	Pittsburgh
Sugar Bowl	Alabama	Boise State
Fiesta Bowl	Oklahoma State	USC
Cotton Bowl	Oklahoma	LSU
Gator Bowl	Georgia Tech	Notre Dame
Capitol One Bowl	Penn State	South Carolina
Liberty Bowl	Tulsa	Tennessee
Sun Bowl	Nebraska	Oregon State
Chick-Fil-A Bowl	Virginia Tech	Georgia
Holiday Bowl	California	Kansas
Independence Bowl	Texas A&M	Kentucky
Outback Bowl	Ole Miss	Ohio State
Insight Bowl	Missouri	Michigan
Champs Sports Bowl	Clemson	Michigan State
Maaco Bowl	TCU	Arizona
Alamo Bowl	Texas Tech	Wisconsin
Little Caeser’s Pizza Bowl	Central Michigan	Minnesota
Humanitarian Bowl	Nevada	Western Michigan
Music City Bowl	Boston College	Auburn
GMAC Bowl	Troy	Ohio
Texas Bowl	Northwestern	Navy
New Orleans Bowl	Louisiana	Southern Miss
Hawaii Bowl	Fresno State	Houston
Emerald Bowl	Wake Forest	UCLA
Meineke Car Care Bowl	North Carolina	Cincinnati
Armed Forces Bowl	Marshall	Air Force
Poinsettia Bowl	BYU	Stanford
Papajohns.com Bowl	Arkansas	South Florida
New Mexico Bowl	Idaho	Utah
International Bowl	West Virginia	Northern Illinois
EagleBank Bowl	Virginia	UConn
St. Petersberg Bowl	Rutgers	UTEP

Teams sitting at home for the holidays: Toledo, Louisiana Tech, Louisiana-Monroe, and Middle Tennessee St.