“There’s nothing special about being 6-6.”

Put me firmly in the “I’ll believe it when I see it camp” on this: There is “growing support” among conference commissioners, athletic directors and bowl officials to increase the difficulty of becoming bowl eligible by requiring teams to have seven victories, or a winning record, when the new BCS cycle begins in 2014, multiple sources have told CBSSports.com. The seven-win requirement would also mean a handful of bowls likely would be discontinued because there would not be enough eligible teams to fill all of the current 70 berths. In the past two years alone, 27 teams with 6-6 records were needed to fill all the bowl slots, meaning nearly 20 percent of the bowl field didn’t have a winning record. They’re going to take 13-14 schools a year out of the bowl mix?  What’ll that do to the number of games? If the winning record requirement did pass, bowl sources estimated up to 12 of the current 35 bowls could be “lopped off.” ...