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College Football Keeping Current Rules for Bowl Eligibility

By: Josh Rultenberg

Updated: August 1, 2012

By Jon Solomon -- The Birmingham News

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- College football plans to keep 6-6 records, not 7-5, the benchmark to qualify for a bowl once a four-team playoff starts in 2014.

Last winter, conference commissioners discussed increasing bowl-eligibility standards, a change that would kill some of the 35 postseason games. The status quo seems to have won.

For more on this story, visit: http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2012/07/college_football_bowl_eligibil.htm

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