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Bowl Affiliations By Conference or Team
Teams must be bowl-eligible to be selected for a bowl game. Should a conference not have enough eligible teams to meet their obligations, the bowls at the end of the selection process are free to choose a replacement team from among any remaining bowl-eligible teams that are not already committed to a bowl game. Prior to the 2010–11 bowl season Bowls were required to select from teams with winning records when choosing a replacement team, unless there are no such teams left, in which case they could choose a 6–6 team. This rule was removed starting with the 2010-2011 bowl season. Should fewer than 70 teams be bowl-eligible, all bowl-eligible teams must be placed in bowls before non-eligible teams may be selected.

If a conference provides an "at-large" selection to the BCS, the remaining bowls will still select in the same order. For example, if a Big 12 team receives an "at-large" bid from the BCS, their remaining bowl tie-ins would be affected. The Cotton Bowl Classic would then have the third (and not second) selection from the Big 12, and all remaining bowls would be shifted accordingly. This increases the likelihood that the conference will not be able to provide enough teams to meet its tie-in obligations.

The term "charter affiliate" below refers to a conference that has been affiliated with a bowl since that bowl's first game.

Atlantic Coast Conference
The ACC currently has eight primary bowl game tie-ins and one bowl game tie-in as an alternative selection.

Big 12 Conference
The Big 12 currently has seven primary bowl game tie-ins.

Big East Conference
The Big East Conference currently has seven bowl tie-ins for six teams.

Big Ten Conference
The Big Ten Conference has eight primary bowl game tie-ins.

Conference USA
Conference USA has seven bowl tie-ins.

Mid-American Conference
The Mid-American Conference has three primary bowl tie-ins and two tie-ins per year as an alternate selection. The two MAC division champions are guaranteed to go to one of the three primary tie-in bowl games.

Mountain West Conference
The Mountain West Conference has five bowl tie-ins.

Pacific-12 Conference
The Pac-12 Conference has seven primary bowl game tie-ins.

Army (FBS Independent)
Army was briefly a football-only member of Conference USA (from 1998 to 2004) but has since reverted to its previous status as an independent for football.

Brigham Young (FBS Independent)
BYU became an independent for football in 2011. BYU had previously been a member of several conferences, most recently the Mountain West Conference (1999-00 to 2010-11) and the Western Athletic Conference (1962-63 to 1998-99).

Navy (FBS Independent)
Navy has been independent in football since it began playing in 1879. It is scheduled to join the Big East as a football-only member in 2015.

History
The Midshipmen have appeared in 17 bowls throughout their history, and been involved in 14 different bowl games. The only games at which they have appeared multiple times are the Cotton Bowl (1958 & 1964) and the Poinsettia Bowl (2005, 2007 and 2010).

The table below lists bowls for which the Navy had an agreement that the bowl would invite the Naval Academy to play if they had become bowl-eligible. It does not necessarily mean that the Naval Academy appeared in these bowls.

Notre Dame (FBS Independent)
Notre Dame has been independent in football since it began playing in 1887.