There are 22 Group of Five teams, counting UConn, that are bowl-eligible through Week 11 of the 2025 college football season. But there are several other teams which could still make a bowl by the end of the year.
Fans of Delaware and Missouri State will be keeping an eye on those bubble teams. Both squads aren’t automatically eligible for the postseason due to NCAA rules for teams going from the FCS to the FBS. That means they aren’t necessarily going to play in bowl games even if either of them win six games.
However, both of those programs could still make a bowl if there aren’t enough bowl-eligible teams by the end of the regular season. Here’s a breakdown of the FBS bowl picture just a few weeks before bowl games begin:
How Many FBS Bowls Are There?
There are 34 FBS bowls, not including the College Football Playoff, meaning 80 FBS teams could make a bowl or the CFP.
How Many FBS College Football Teams Are Bowl-Eligible?
There are 59 bowl-eligible teams in the FBS after Week 11. Here is a list of those teams by conference.
American
- Navy
- Memphis
- South Florida
- Tulane
- North Texas
- East Carolina
ACC
- Georgia Tech
- Virginia
- Pitt
- Louisville
- Miami
- SMU
- Wake Forest
- Cal
Independent
- Notre Dame
- UConn
Big 12
- BYU
- Texas Tech
- Cincinnati
- Houston
- Utah
- TCU
- Arizona State
- Arizona
- Iowa State
Big Ten
- Indiana
- Ohio State
- Oregon
- Iowa
- Michigan
- Nebraska
- Washington
- USC
- Minnesota
- Illinois
Conference USA
- Kennesaw State
- Western Kentucky
- Jacksonville State
MAC
- Ohio
Mountain West
- UNLV
- Hawaii
- Boise State
- San Diego State
- Fresno State
- New Mexico
Pac-12
- N/A
SEC
- Ole Miss
- Texas A&M
- Alabama
- Georgia
- Missouri
- Oklahoma
- Vanderbilt
- Texas
- Tennessee
Sun Belt
- James Madison
- Southern Miss
- Troy
- Old Dominion
- Coastal Carolina
