Remember when reaching a bowl game used to be a big deal for a school? It’s something about which a fan base could be proud.

Now? There are so many bowl games that all you need is a .500 record to get into one.

It will be even more watered down now as the NCAA approved two new bowl games for 2015-16 to bring the total to 41. Because we need to see more Conference USA and Sun Belt teams in action.

Every SEC team played in a bowl game in 2014 but Kentucky and Vanderbilt. I mean, did Florida really deserve a bowl bid? South Carolina? I say no. Most schools who go to those lower-tier bowls actually lose money. But coaches love them because it allows them to practice for an additional month.

Here are the bowl results of every SEC school since 2005, in alphabetical order.

ALABAMA (6-4)

Three of those bowl games were BCS National Championship Games in 2009, ’11 and ’12. Of course the Tide won them all. However, Alabama has lost in the Sugar Bowl three times, including the last two seasons: 45-31 to Oklahoma in the 2013 season (the Tide looked disinterested after seeing their national title hopes dashed in an Iron Bowl loss) and then 42-35 to Ohio State in last year’s College Football Playoff semifinal game.

ARKANSAS (3-3)

The Hogs were a bowl team last season for the first time since 2011 despite a 6-6 regular-season record and 2-6 SEC mark. But I’d say they deserved a bid after destroying (and shutting out) ranked LSU and Ole Miss in back-to-back weeks late in the season. The Razorbacks thumped Texas, 31-7, in the Texas Bowl. It was the first game between these former Southwest Conference rivals since 2008.

AUBURN (5-3)

The Tigers didn’t play in the postseason in 2005 due to a 5-7 record under Tommy Tuberville — that would be his final year as head coach. They missed again in 2012 with a 3-9 mark, which would be Gene Chizik’s final season as coach. Of course the next year they nearly upset Florida State in the final BCS Championship Game. The score of that? 34-31. Auburn also lost last season’s Outback Bowl by the same score to Wisconsin.

FLORIDA (7-2)

The Gators won the BCS Championship Game in 2006 and ’08 under coach Urban Meyer. A certain quarterback named Tim Tebow helped too, more so in the ’08 season. Florida’s only season without a bowl game in the last 10 years was in 2013 when UF went 4-8 under former coach Will Muschamp. The Gators beat East Carolina in last year’s Birmingham Bowl.

GEORGIA (6-4)

The Dawgs haven’t missed a bowl game since 1996 when they were 5-6 under then-coach Jim Donnan. Georgia has finished with a losing record since then, however. It ended 6-7 in 2010 after losing the Liberty Bowl, 10-6, to Central Florida. That ended a four-bowl winning streak for the Bulldogs.

KENTUCKY (3-2)

Kentucky went 3-0 in bowl games from 2006-08 under Rich Brooks, then lost postseason games the following two seasons and hasn’t been back since. Might Mark Stoops feel some major pressure if the Cats don’t reach one in 2015?

LSU (6-4)

Les Miles took over for Nick Saban for the 2005 season and LSU hasn’t missed a bowl game, highlighted by the 2007 BCS Championship Game win over Ohio State. The Tigers then lost in that game in 2011 against Saban’s Tide. When we will see two teams from the same conference play for it all again?

OLE MISS (4-1)

The Rebels took a four-game bowl winning streak — two under current coach Hugh Freeze — into last season’s Peach Bowl but they were pounded by TCU, which was clearly motivated to show that the College Football Playoff committee was wrong for the leaving the Frogs out of the national semifinals.

MISSISSIPPI STATE (4-2)

The Bulldogs have reached five straight bowl games under coach Dan Mullen and have alternated wins and losses in the last four. Perhaps that bodes well for 2015. MSU was run over by Georgia Tech in last season’s Orange Bowl.

MISSOURI (6-3)

The Tigers have made two bowl games since leaving the Big 12 for the SEC, winning the Cotton Bowl in 2013 and Citrus Bowl over Minnesota last season.

SOUTH CAROLINA (5-4)

All of those bowl results have come under coach Steve Spurrier. The Gamecocks beat Miami (Fla.) in last season’s Independence Bowl for their school-record fourth straight postseason victory.

TENNESSEE (2-3)

After losing the Chick-fil-A-Bowl in Lane Kiffin’s only season as coach and the Music City Bowl in Derek Dooley’s first, the Vols didn’t play postseason football again until beating Iowa last season in the TaxSlayer Bowl.

TEXAS A&M (4-4)

The Aggies have won four straight bowl games. They won the Meineke Car Care Bowl in their final season in the Big 12 under coach Mike Sherman and are 3-0 in the postseason under Kevin Sumlin and since joining the SEC.

VANDERBILT (3-1)

The Commodores hadn’t played in a bowl game since 1982 before beating Boston College in the 2008 Music City Bowl. They won their final two bowl games under James Franklin before he left for Penn State following the 2013 season.