The Twelve: The Preseason Favorites For The Major Bowls
..we know up front that the top eleven teams in the final rankings are going to make big bowl games, with the highest-ranked team from the so-called “Little Five” conferences (Mountain West, American, Conference USA, MAC, Sun Belt) also qualifying.
While we won’t know what the committee is thinking until October, we can at least use the preseason AP poll as a reliable guide to the early favorites be in these games