The higher the regular season finish for each respective team, the higher we would anticipate to land on the following list of bowl games. The following bowl games are ranked in an approximate pecking order. The goals for the above criteria ultimately boil down to the ability to have competitive set of bowls to produce the most appealing games and diversifying bowl match ups and teams traveling to new locations for both the teams and their fans. Occasionally they may chase a story line – for example if Indiana could potentially match up with Kentucky.Whether or not the team has played multiple and/or consecutive bowls within a specific state or region.Whether or not the team has recently played in that bowl game – in fact, Big Ten schools will not be able to go to the same bowl game in consecutive years, except for the Rose Bowl and College Football Playoff bowls.Where the team finished in the final Big Ten standings.The short answer is that the Big Ten will send teams to various bowls that they have partnered with (see below) based on a number of criteria: How are the bowls ultimately decided? Well, quite frankly it’s a bit of a complex process that has a spaghetti monster’s worth of dependencies.
