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The 2005-06 NCAA college football bowl season was a series of 28 post-season games (including the Bowl Championship Series) that was played in December 2005 and January 2006 for Division I-A football teams and all-stars from Divisions I-AA, II, and III, as well as from the NAIA. The post-season began with the New Orleans Bowl on December 20, 2005, and concluded with the Senior Bowl, played on January 28, 2006. ==Minor (Non-BCS) Bowls== With 64 teams' having winning records, and 56 slots in bowl games, there were more teams than slots available for teams to get a bowl bid. Again, as in 2004, two conferences — the Pac 10 and the SEC — did not have enough teams to fill the required number of slots for their non-BCS bowls. A third conference — the Big Ten — had two teams in the BCS (Penn State as the conference champion, and Ohio State meeting Notre Dame in the Fiesta Bowl January 2). The biggest beneficiary this year was the ACC, which replaced the SEC at the Music City Bowl (Virginia) and the Pac-10 (Georgia Tech) at the Emerald Bowl; Conference USA also gained a slot, sending Memphis to the Motor City Bowl. Unlike last year, where a fighting incident during the game between Clemson and South Carolina led each team to impose a post-season ban, no school forfeited post-season play this year. While the number of bowls had remained constant for three years, the NCAA approved three additional bowl games to be played in 2006-07, the most notable in Toronto, Ontario, called the International Bowl, which became the first post-season college football game to be held outside the USA since the Bacardi Bowl in Cuba (last played in 1937); the Hawaii Bowl is the only current game played outside the contiguous 48 states. In addition, two additional games - the Papajohns.com Bowl in Birmingham, Alabama and the New Mexico Bowl in Albuquerque, New Mexico were added, and two additional at-large bowl spots opened in the Bowl Championship Series, which added a fifth game, a stand-alone national championship game. These moves, along with the addition of a permanent 12-game regular season schedule, aimed at ameliorating the surplus of bowl-eligible teams experienced in recent years, allowing more teams with winning records to partake in season-ending football trips. The eight teams with winning records that did not get bowl bids were Louisiana Tech (7-4) from the WAC, MAC teams Miami (Ohio) (7-4), Bowling Green (6-5), Western Michigan (7-4), NIU (7-5) and Central Michigan (6-5), Mountain West representative New Mexico (6-5) and the Sun Belt's (6-5). Four teams made their Division I-A bowl debuts — Arkansas State (Sun Belt, New Orleans Bowl at Lafayette), South Florida (Big East, ), Central Florida (C-USA, ) and Akron (MAC, ). Akron, notably, had been the only bowl-eligible team willing to accept an invitation to be left out of the 2004 bowl games. However, none of the teams benefitted from "beginner's luck", as each lost its game. Participants in non-BCS bowls are selected on the basis of conference tie-ins. All bowl payouts are given in US dollars. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2005–06 NCAA football bowl games」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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