The Pac 12 has struggled to fill all of their bowl spots in past seasons, but will not be the case this upcoming bowl season. As The Seattle Times notes, the Pac 12 already has eight teams eligible for postseason play to satisfy seven conference bowl affiliations, and that number could rise to as many as ten teams.
Oregon, Stanford, Oregon State and Washington are all eligible for postseason play out of the Pac 12 North. Washington State is one win away with two games to play to join them. In the Pac 12 South Arizona State, UCLA, USC and Arizona are all eligible and Utah needs to win their final two games to get there. California and Colorado have already been ruled ineligible.
Colorado had a chance to become bowl eligible wash away, figuratively speaking. An earlier game this season against Fresno State had to be postponed as floods ravaged through Colorado. It remains to be seen if that game will hurt Fresno State’s BCS plans or not, but it did cost Colorado a chance to play in a bowl game. Because Colorado had to reschedule with a different opponent, the Buffs scrambled to schedule a game against FCS Charleston Southern. This was the second FCS opponent on Colorado’s 2013 schedule, which means they needed to get to seven wins instead of the standard six wins according to NCAA postseason eligibility rules.
The Pac 12 champion heads to the Rose Bowl, of course. Other bowls in the Pac 12 line-up include the Sun Bowl, Holiday Bowl, Alamo Bowl, Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl, Maaco Las Vegas Bowl and New Mexico Bowl. As it stands right now, the Pac 12 will have no problem filling all of those spots even if everything falls in to place (Alabama, Florida State, Baylor and/or Ohio State lose) and Oregon happens to make a BCS Championship Game appearance.