8 wins when they play 13 with the bowl they get with a 7-5 record and beat a 6-6 team. ho hum . there are 34 bowls , so over half the teams are playing 13 games. To overblow this 8 win thing ignores the fact that for much of the century 9 and then 10 game regular seasons were the norm. it wasn't until the maybe 60s that they went to 11 - and only recently to 12. And up until the bowl explosion, bowls were special and only for the elite. In the 50s ,... More...