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The 2007–08 NCAA football bowl games concluded the 2007 NCAA Division I FBS regular season in college football. The NCAA divided Division I into two divisions for football in 1978. The top level, originally known as "Division I-A" and officially changed to the "Football Bowl Subdivision" in 2006, includes teams that play in bowl games. The second level, originally known as "Division I-AA" and renamed the "Football Championship Subdivision" in 2006, consists of smaller schools and conferences, most of which play in a playoff system (although a few conferences, such as the Ivy League, choose not to participate in the playoff). The larger schools, who do not have a playoff system, concludes with a series of bowl games that have developed as a reward for teams that do well in the regular season. The 2007–08 schedule was as large a lineup as the 2006–07 lineup – all as part of 36 post-season games (32 not counting the post-BCS all-star games) that started with the Poinsettia Bowl on December 20, 2007, and ended with the Texas vs. The Nation all-star game on February 2, 2008. In total, 64 schools out of the 119 schools in the Bowl Subdivision had played in the post-season. This was the result of the NCAA's decision to expand schedules to twelve regular season mainland games (not counting games either played in Hawaii or conference championships games in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), Big 12 Conference, Southeastern Conference (SEC), Mid-American Conference (MAC) or Conference USA) and allow teams with a 6-6 record to be bowl eligible if either the team or their conference has negotiated a bowl contract. ==Selection of the teams== For the 2007-08 season, NCAA bylaws stipulated that any team that finished with at least a 6-6 overall regular season record can only be selected to fill a conference tie-in bowl slot once all other available conference teams are chosen. The Big Ten had ten teams who finished with a 6-6 or better regular season record, but only were allocated six slots not including BCS-qualifying Ohio State and Illinois. As a result, Northwestern and Iowa who finished with a 6-6 record did not qualify for a bowl game. Other teams that were left out of the bowl games were Louisville of the Big East; and the SEC's South Carolina, despite the fact that their conference had two BCS-qualifying teams (LSU and Georgia). The MAC's Ohio and Sun Belt members Troy and Louisiana-Monroe also failed to receive invitations. The Troy Trojans (at 8-4) were the most notable absentee from the bowl games, losing their season finale to Florida Atlantic on the last day of the season. In contrast, Mountain West members TCU was invited to the Texas Bowl as the Big 12 could not fill all of its slots, because not enough teams were left after Kansas was chosen as an at-large team to join conference champion Oklahoma. Meanwhile, Miami (Ohio) went 6-7, losing the MAC Championship Game. Had the RedHawks won, they would have been eligible.〔(ESPN - College Football Standings, NCAA College Football Standings, NCAA Football Standings )〕 As a result, the NCAA on April 30, 2008 later approved two new bowl games for the 2008-09 post season: The EagleBank Bowl (née Congressional Bowl), which will be played at RFK Stadium in Washington, DC will pit an ACC team against either Army or Navy, while the new St. Petersburg Bowl, to be played at Tropicana Field in the Florida City namesake will pit Conference USA and Big East schools against one another. 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「2007–08 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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