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Apparently there is growing support among the people who count(obviously not you and me) to increase the difficulty of becoming bowl-eligible by requiring teams to have seven victories, or a winning
record, when the new BCS cycle begins in 2014.
The seven-win requirement means a handful of bowls likely would be discontinued because there would not be enough eligible teams to fill all of the current 70 berths. I doubt we'll lose a lot of sleep over that one.
In the past two years alone, 27 teams with 6-6 records were needed to fill all the bowl slots, meaning nearly 20 percent of the bowl field didn't have a winning record.
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