Pac-12: North Carolina State Wolf Pack
Jerry Palm of CBSSports.com doesn't think so and he's released his bowl projections for all 35 games next season.
Of the 12 teams in the conference, he has eight of them heading to the postseason -- most notably -- USC playing in the national championship game against LSU. And according to Palm, Oregon also makes another appearance in the Rose Bowl.
The four teams on the outside looking in are Colorado, UCLA, Washington State and Oregon State.
Here's a look at the bowl games he's projecting that include Pac-12 teams:
- BCS National Championship game (Jan. 7 in Miami): USC vs. LSU
- Rose Bowl (Jan. 2 in Pasadena, Calif.): Oregon vs. Michigan
- Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl: Arizona State vs. Navy
- Sun Bowl: Washington vs. North Carolina State
- Alamo Bowl: Utah vs. Kansas State
- Holiday Bowl: Stanford vs. Baylor (would have loved to see that matchup in 2011)
- Maaco Bowl: Cal vs. Boise State
- New Mexico Bowl: Arizona vs. Air Force
First, there are the contenders for AQ conference titles.
ACC: Florida State, North Carolina State, Virginia Tech
Big East: Connecticut, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, West Virginia
Big Ten: Michigan State, Ohio State, Wisconsin
Big 12: Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas A&M
Pac-10: Oregon, Stanford
SEC: Auburn, South Carolina
A seventh spot will be reserved for the top-rated team from a non-AQ conference: Boise State or TCU. That means there will be three at-large invitations this year.
In addition to the aforementioned teams, the pool of teams remaining under consideration also includes (in alphabetical order): Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Boise State, LSU, Nevada, Utah, and TCU.
The final BCS standings will be compiled Sunday, Dec. 5. The BCS bowl pairings will be announced at 8:15 p.m. EST that evening on ESPN.
Ayers, Foster, Matthews are semifinalists
(Note: This list has been changed. It originally left off Matthews due to Pac-10 blogger stupidity -- treating a two-page document as just one page!)
My bad.
Here's the complete list of semifinalists:
Akeem Ayers, UCLA
Bruce Carter, North Carolina
Mason Foster, Washington
Mario Harvey, Marshall
Dont'a Hightower, Alabama
Justin Houston, Georgia
Nate Irving, North Carolina State
Greg Jones, Michigan State
Luke Kuechly, Boston College
Travis Lewis, Oklahoma
Casey Matthews, Oregon
Von Miller, Texas A&M
Keenan Robinson, Texas
Sean Spence, Miami (Fla.)
Manti Te'o, Notre Dame
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