OK, we've run down which teams are bowl eligible and which conferences have filled their bowl slots, so the only thing left to ponder are the updated bowl game projections.

So... without further ado... my updated bowl game projections for games played through November 8, 2008.

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New Mexico Bowl - San Jose State vs Colorado State

St. Petersburg Bowl - South Florida vs Houston

Pioneer Las Vegas - TCU vs Oregon

Eagle Bank Bowl - Virginia vs Navy

R+L Carriers New Orleans - Memphis vs Troy

San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia - BYU vs Nevada

Sheraton Hawaii - Hawaii vs Stanford

Motor City - Central Michigan vs Illinois

Meineke Car Care - Cincinnati vs Maryland

Champs Sports - Virginia ...

Get ready, Virginia fans: That mighty BCS contender from Texas is coming to Scott Field in 2009.

TCU had been on my mind after learning earlier in the day that the Horned Frogs will be coming to Virginia in 2009.

The contracts will be signed shortly, but agreement has been reached.

I'm not sure about the origin of the TCU-UVa talks, but the Cavaliers would not visit TCU, located in Fort Worth, until 2011 at the earliest and probably not till 2012. The Cavaliers already have lengthy trip planned to Southern California for 2010.

TCU and Virginia last hooked up in the 1994 Independence Bowl - a 20-10 win for the Cavs.

Comment on TCU - UVa agree to home-and-home...

Conference Bowl discussion, TAKE TWO Also see this page, for dates and times. Lets keep it clean, and don't feed the trolls, no matter which bridge they have crawled out from under.

ACC: 8 Bowl Slots, Plus 1 BCS slot

Eligible: 8 - Florida State, Wake Forest, Maryland, Boston College, North Carolina, Virgina Tech, Miami (FL), Georgia Tech
Needs 1 win: 1 - Virginia
Needs 2 wins: 2- Clemson, Duke
Needs 3 wins: 1- North Carolina State
Eliminated: NONE

Projected: +1. Any number from 8-12 is possible. They will likely have 9 or 10 eligible teams, possibly giving them and extra eligible team.

Big 10: 6 Slots, plus 1 BCS slot
Eligible: 6- Michigan State, Penn State, Ohio State, Minnesota, Northwestern, Iowa
Needs ...

Now that we are mid-way through November's college football games, here's a look at which teams have enough wins to be eligible to play in a bowl game this season.

Bowl Eligible Teams through 11-8-2008

ACC - 8 teams eligible
FSU, Wake Forest, Maryland, Boston College, North Carolina, Virginia Tech, Miami, Georgia Tech

Big 12 - 7 teams eligible
Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas, Texas, Texas Tech, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State

Big East - 5 teams eligible
Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Connecticut, West Virginia, South Florida

Big 10 -6 teams eligible
Michigan State, Penn State, Ohio State, Minnesota, Northwestern, Iowa

Conference USA - 3 teams eligible
East Carolina, Tulsa, Rice

Independents - 1 team eligible
Navy

MAC - 3 teams eligible
Ball State, Central Michigan, Western ...

When Jim Boylen became the Utah basketball coach last year, he vowed to get rid of black in the Utes' uniforms and get back to the traditional red and white.

The football team, however, is going the opposite direction, at least for a night, putting black into its uniforms in a big way for Thursday night's "blackout" game against TCU.

According to the Deseret News Utah plans to join the trend of teams exploring the marketing gimmick that is the black uniform.

I have been threatened to be banned if links to Utah's history of black gymnastics uniforms are included in posts (granted no warning of such content was given, just a note of the history of black uniforms.) I am half hoping Utah took this opportunity, complete with gold lettering. I am also clearly on the side of Utah fans that HATE the idea, but I am a Utah man, ...