[BostonCard]

I forgot one thing...

Pairings for Selected Other Bowl Games.
All displaced conference champions and the highest ranked champion from a non-contract conference, as ranked by the committee, will participate in selected other bowl games and will be assigned to those games by the committee. If berths in the selected other bowl games remain available after those teams have been identified, the highest ranked other teams, as ranked by the committee, will fill those berths in rank order.’(Note: A “displaced conference champion” is a champion of a contract conference that does not qualify for the playoff in a year when its contract bowl hosts a semifinal game.)

So, at least one of the berths will be taken by the highest ranked champion from a non-contract conference.  Still, that leaves room for every Big5 conference to get two teams in, and one conference to get three in.  The best non-Big5 team will also get in, which would have been Marshall, but it lost.  Right now that looks to be Boise State.

BC

[BostonCard]

I forgot one thing...

Pairings for Selected Other Bowl Games.
All displaced conference champions and the highest ranked champion from a non-contract conference, as ranked by the committee, will participate in selected other bowl games and will be assigned to those games by the committee. If berths in the selected other bowl games remain available after those teams have been identified, the highest ranked other teams, as ranked by the committee, will fill those berths in rank order.’(Note: A “displaced conference champion” is a champion of a contract conference that does not qualify for the playoff in a year when its contract bowl hosts a semifinal game.)

So, at least one of the berths will be taken by the highest ranked champion from a non-contract conference.  Still, that leaves room for every Big5 conference to get two teams in, and one conference to get three in.  The best non-Big5 team will also get in, which would have been Marshall, but it lost.  Right now that looks to be Boise State.

BC