OK, I stayed up until 1 am to wait to see Fresno State come from behind to beat Idaho. I will buy a Bulldog hoodie at Foot Locker this week, because their win eliminated Idaho from to "round of 70."

In other words, Ohio is IN. At least I think so...unless:
For some crazy reason a bowl chooses to take 6-6 Western Michigan or Mid Tenn St. (must beat FIU next week)
Arizona State wins in Arizona next week AND the NCAA gives them an exemption (they have 2 wins against i-AAs)
Washington beats Washington State AND Oregon State beats #1 Oregon - don't see both happening.

I don't know where the Cats will go. I'm just happy they're going!!!

Here's how it unfolded...

The PAC 10 could have one, but now it's a little cloudier...
Cal is 5-7 OUT following their loss to Washington. Goodbye Bears.
Wash is 5-6 after beating the Bears. They host Wash. St. next week - win and they're in.
Ore St. 5-6 -- Getting clobbered by Stanford, it's a loss, next week...#1 Oregon. Bye bye Beavers.
AZ St. 5-6 -- need a roadie at AZ next week and NCAA waiver (2 W's vs. AA teams - but PAC 10 needs another team)

These SEC team can take the other two bids.
Tennessee 6-6 -- IN after beating UK this afternoon.
Georgia 6-6 --IN, defeated Ga. Tech tonight

The rest are less likely to become eligible...
Cincy - 4-7 -- OUT after losing to UConn
Houston 5-7 -- OUT, loss at Texas Tech
Idaho 5-7 - OUT, lost to Fresno St. tonite

Nice analysis, World B. Free.  Please keep updating this thread so we can keep tabs on those other teams!

Thanks, I will update this tomorrow evening. In reality the Georgia and Tennessee games will tell us all we need to know.

The Boise St loss changes the bowl picture alot.

We now could be looking at an Ohio - Boise St Humanitarian Bowl.

Screw it, if I have the money and friends willing to travel then I'll go either way.

Right now, it's looking like there might be 70 bowl eligible teams (or 71 if Georgia beats Georgia Tech). Things look good for Ohio. Western Michigan would be an obvious odd team out if there is 71. We'll know a lot more when all the Pac-10 and WAC games get played tonight.

The game in Boise pays the most upfront money of any MAC tie-in or any possible at-large landing spot. The reason that CUSA left the game in mobile and the MAC stayed is the MAC was willing to accept less money at the time than CUSA under the glorious leadership of Rick Cryst. The new commish so far has done a good job with the Boise money and the secondary agreements. Last time around the SBC boxed the MAC out of secondary tie-ins with the compass bowl but not this time around. The way the MAC by-laws are worded is that Little Ceasars has the #1 selection but after that the bowls are free to choose who they want.Given the MAC tried to have ranked Ball State match up with Boise State I exoect to see them try the same thing with NIU. There is no doubt in my mind that NIU is going to be ranked next week and will likely rout Miami in the championship game. That would make for a pretty good matchup of 2 ranked teams.

I love the idea of playing Boise State in the Humanitarian Bowl. Boise would feel down by playing in that game when they could have been playing for it all, and we'd feel lucky just to make a bowl after the crap-fest that was Kent State. They'd have nothing to win and we'd have nothing to lose. That's how upsets happen.

The Georgia game is key. Georgia wins the SEC has 10 eligible teams enough to fullfill all its bowl contracts and place 2 schools in the BCS. This affects a couple of bowls. the Liberty and the Compass. In this situation the Liberty would get a SEC-CUSA matchup while the Compass would be SEC-Big East. Georgia loses and the Liberty Bowl becomes SEC-Big East while the Compass becomes CUSA-MAC. The CUSA Champ looks like it will be 9-3 UCF. My sense is that Temple would make a good matchup here over the Bobcats and Temple would likely fight hard for it to save travel costs. 

You were right the first time.  As with most option teams, GT can't pass.

I think you can scratch out AZ St.  About the only way they would get a waiver from the NCAA is if there weren't enough other bowl eligible teams to fill the slots.  I count 70 bowl eligible teams now, so there's already enough.  ESPN has also marked them off.  Now the potential bumping begins if Washington or any of the other four potentially eligible teams gets in the mix.

OU in the Sun Bowl would be good for another reason: it's on CBS, so we wouldn't have any of the godawful ESPN announcing crews!

TOUCHDOWN FRESNO STATE WITH 12 SECONDS LEFT!!!!!

What an ending!