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[QUOTE="HastingsCuse, post: 803106, member: 301"]
Although I usually do not follow the bowl projection very closely, it looks there could be a lot of bowl eligible teams in the ACC. Right now 6 teams have 6 wins or more and are bowl eligible (FSU, Clemson, GTech, Vtech, Duke and Miami ) and 4 teams with 5 wins (Cuse, Md, Pitt and BC) and 1 team with 4 wins but playing well and with winnable games (NC with games against Pitt, Old Dominion and Duke).   Pitt has the toughest schedule NC, Cuse and Miami)

So here are my questions for those who are smarter than me:

1)  How many ACC teams will play in bowls?  On the tie-in lists I only see the top 8 ACC playing in bowls.  Does that mean 2-3 ACC teams may be bowl eligible but not get invited?

2)  If there are ties in the standings (for example if NC and Cuse both end up 6-6) who or what determines who goes to a bowl?  Does conference record come into play?

3) Could the bias against the northern schools come into play? (e.g. 5 teams end up 6-6 with Cuse, BC and Pitt out and Md and NC in)

4)  If only 8 teams in the ACC will be invited to a bowl, it looks like Cuse will need to beat both BC and Pitt to get to 7-5 to go to a bowl.   Correct?   Pitt may be the more important game.  If not you'll have BC who will likely be at least 7-5 (with games against Cuse, NC st and Md.)  and Pitt, Md, NC,  and Cuse at 6-6 and only 1 getting invited to a bowl.
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