Published Nov 27, 2012
Huskies wait for bowl bid
Justin Rowland
UDUBNation.com Publisher
Once the conference championship games are complete we should have a pretty clear picture of where every bowl eligible team will be spending the holidays.
For now Washington (7-5, 5-4) is in wait-and-see mode. The Huskies can rest assured knowing they will be rewarded with a bowl game. But where and against who?
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Here's what we know:
  • The Pac-12 will likely have two teams in Bowl Championship Series games. The winner of the Stanford-UCLA game will receive the conference's automatic bid to the Rose Bowl. Oregon will presumably receive an at-large bid at 11-1.
  • The Huskies will likely be selected after UCLA (or Stanford, whoever loses the Pac-12 championship game) and probably Oregon State. The Bruins and Beavers both boast conference records of 6-3, one-game better than the Huskies' of 5-4.
    • So that leaves this:
    Remaining Bowls
    BCS Automatic: Stanford/UCLA winner
    BCS At-Large: Oregon
    Valero Alamo Bowl (Pac-12 No. 2): Oregon State/UCLA
    Bridgepoint Education Holiday Bowl (Pac-12 No. 3): Oregon State/UCLA
    Hyundai Sun Bowl (Pac-12 No. 4): Washington/USC/Arizona State
    MAACO Las Vegas Bowl (Pac-12 No. 5): Washington/USC/Arizona State
    Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl (Pac-12 No. 6): Washington/USC/Arizona State
    Gildan New Mexico Bowl (Pac-12 No. 7): Arizona
    The consensus seems to be that the Sun Bowl will select Southern Cal, Washington will be headed for Vegas, and Arizona State gets the Fight Hunter Bowl.
    Arizona, by virtue of their inferior conference record (4-5 vs. the others at 5-4), would be dropped to the last available tie-in in New Mexico.