Update 11/25/15: This article has been updated to reflect new information from a statement issued by Cal Athletics.

On Wednesday, Cal Athletics announced that it received information from both Grambling State and the NCAA confirming that Grambling State met the requirements necessary for the 73-14 win to count toward the Bears’ bowl eligibility.

Cal football is now bowl eligible with or without a victory in its last regular season game this Saturday at home against Arizona State.

The Bears had submitted a waiver to the NCAA Football Oversight Committee, asking for the victory that started the season to be counted among the six needed to be eligible for a bowl game, because it is not clear if Grambling State, a Football Championship Subdivision, or FCS, school, met certain requirements as first reported by USA Today on Tuesday.

Because Grambling State is an FCS school, the win does not count the same for the Bears as their other victories against fellow Football Bowl Subdivision, or FBS, institutions. The NCAA rule dictates that FBS schools can only count an FCS win as part of their bowl eligibility if the FCS school that was defeated awarded their student-athletes, on average, at least 90 percent of the 63 scholarships in a rolling two-year period.

Schools are allowed to schedule one game a season against FCS opponents, but for the win to count toward bowl eligibility, the FCS school must award these scholarships. It is not clear if Grambling State has met these qualifications.

Cal Athletics and athletic director Mike Williams were not previously aware that this could be an issue, with the game against Grambling State being scheduled under former Cal athletic director Sandy Barbour, who is now the athletic director at Penn State University.

Cal Athletics released the following statement:

“At this time, we have received assurances from Grambling and are fully confident that the program meets the NCAA requirements. We believe our game against Grambling will count toward bowl eligibility.”

This issue is coming into light at a unique time in college football, because it is beginning to appear that the NCAA may not have the necessary 80 schools with the six wins needed for bowl eligibility. This could then result in schools with 5-7 records taking part in the tournament if they have “a top-five Academic Progress Rate in the Football Bowl Subdivision for the most recent reporting year.”

Alaina Getzenberg covers football. Contact her at [email protected]