With fewer than two weeks until bowl invitations are extended, there still remains no solution how the bowls will be filled if there aren't enough bowl-eligible teams.

The NCAA's Football Oversight Committee hopes to make a decision next week on how to place teams with 5-7 records, if needed, to fill any of the bowls, sources told ESPN.

"Right now, it's clear as mud," one source said.

With a record 80 FBS teams needed to fill the record 41 bowl games, including the College Football Playoff title game, there may not be enough teams with the required six wins to become bowl-eligible.

The NCAA's contingency plan on how to fill all of the bowls if there are not enough bowl-eligible teams will not solve the problem, leaving the oversight committee to figure it out.

Nebraska is one of several teams that could play in a bowl this season with a losing record. AP Photo/Nati Harnik

A source told ESPN that the most logical solution is that the 5-7 teams with the highest APRs will be selected first. If only one bowl needs a 5-7 team, then the 5-7 team with the highest APR would get the bid, the source said.

However, if multiple bowls need 5-7 teams, it's unknown which bowl would select first. One possibility, a source said, is to make those decisions based on what makes the most sense geographically.

There currently are 71 bowl-eligible teams, with 17 teams still able to reach six wins.

Of the teams that are not currently bowl-eligible that are at or can reach five wins, here's how they rank based on the 2013-14 APR data, the most recent available, which will be used by the NCAA: 985. Nebraska (5-6); 980. Rutgers (4-7); 977. Indiana (5-6), Virginia Tech (5-6), Washington (4-6); 976. Missouri (5-6), Kansas State (4-6); 975. San Jose State (5-6).

Whatever the oversight committee recommends, it must be officially approved by the NCAA's Division I Council. Bowl invitations will be extended on Dec. 6.