Bowl Saga Thickens

with 2 new bowls!

The NCAA has solved two of college football's biggest mysteries:
• Where will the ninth-best ACC football team go for the postseason, if it qualifies?
• What about the seventh-best team in the eight-team Big East?
The answers, in order, are the Congressional Bowl in Washington and the St. Petersburg Bowl, the two newest additions to what is now a 34-bowl postseason.
The NCAA licensed the games on Wednesday. There could have been 35 games, but the NCAA rejected a request for a Rocky Mountain Bowl in Salt Lake City.
The Congressional Bowl will be Dec. 20 between Navy, if it qualifies, and an ACC team. If the ACC can't fill the spot, a Mid-American Conference team would.
The St. Petersburg Bowl will be between Dec. 20-23, with a Conference USA team playing a Big East opponent.
There are 68 bowl berths and 120 Division I-A teams.