The following schools have been to bowls in seven consecutive years:
California, Navy, Utah
The following school has a six-year bowl participation streak:
Alabama
The following schools have been to bowls in five consecutive years:
Brigham Young, Clemson, Houston, Missouri, Nevada, Oregon,
Penn State, Rutgers, South Florida, Texas Christian
The following schools have been to bowls in four consecutive years:
Central Michigan, Cincinnati, East Carolina, Kentucky, Oklahoma State, Oregon State
The following schools have been to bowls in three consecutive years:
Air Force, Connecticut, Fresno State, Michigan State
The following schools have been to bowls in both 2008 and 2009, but not 2007:
Arizona, Iowa, Miami-Florida, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Carolina,
Northern Illinois, Northwestern, Pittsburgh, South Carolina, Troy
Listed below are the 16 schools who were in a 2009 bowl, but who did not go bowling
the year before, with the number of years without a bowl appearance in parentheses.
(Note: If the last bowl appearance was N years ago, there have been N-1 years without a bowl appearance.)
The following teams went to a bowl at the end of the 2007 season, but not since then:
Arizona State, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Mississippi State, New Mexico, Purdue, Virginia
The following teams went to a bowl at the end of the 2006 season, but not since then:
Kansas State, Louisville, San Jose State
The following teams went to a bowl at the end of the 2005 season, but not since then:
Akron, Arkansas State, Toledo, UTEP
The following teams went to a bowl at the end of the 2004 season, but not since then:
Miami-Ohio, North Texas, Syracuse, UAB
The following teams went bowling sometime during 2002-2003, but not since:
Washington State (2003), Tulane, Washington (2002)
That leaves 13 FBS schools who have yet to go bowling in the 21st century.
The following teams went bowling sometime during 1997-2000 but not since:
UNLV (2000), San Diego State (1998), Utah State (1997)
The following teams went bowling sometime during 1987-1996 but not since:
Army, Baylor, Duke, Eastern Michigan
The following teams haven't been to a bowl in over 25 years:
Kent State, Louisiana-Lafayette, New Mexico State, Western Kentucky
The following teams, currently playing at the FBS level, have never been to a bowl:
Florida International, Louisiana-Monroe