The University of Hawaii football team is in the postseason, awaiting only a formal declaration from the NCAA.

“Hawaii is in — they’re in (the postseason),” Wright Waters, executive director of the the Football Bowl Association, confirmed Monday.

The FBA is the non-profit association representing postseason college football bowl games.

A conference call is scheduled for Thursday involving the FBA and NCAA, after which the NCAA could finally clear up its most muddled bowl picture. “We’ve been after them to make an announcement,” Waters said.

The Rainbow Warriors concluded the regular season Saturday with a victory over Massachusetts for a 6-7 record.

Normally teams must achieve at least a .500 record to be bowl eligible. But because there will not be 80 bowl-eligible teams to fill the slots for the 40 bowls, as many as six teams will have to be added. And UH, with six victories, is high on the NCAA list of criteria for additional selections.

Pending final games this week and next, the question is no longer whether it will crack the 80, but with 74 teams already bowl eligible, whether the Rainbow Warriors will go in as 75th, 76th or 77th team.

“I’ve been doing this a long time and this is the craziest year I’ve ever seen,” said Waters, a former conference commissioner, past member of the NCAA Executive Committee and chair of the NCAA Bowl Licensing Committee.

While all signs point to UH appearing in the hometown Dec. 24 Hawaii Bowl, both bowl director Daryl Garvin and UH athletic director David Matlin said the pairing is yet to be made official.

The choice of an opponent is up in the air as the bowl industry works from the championship playoff on down. Announcement of the matchup will likely come this weekend, according to people in the industry.

The Hawaii Bowl has agreements with the Mountain West and Conference USA, but because of the chaos this year might be able to go outside its contracts to secure an opponent for UH.

Seventy-four teams have earned bowl eligibility and Louisiana Lafayette, which is 5-6, could join them with a victory over Louisiana Monroe on Saturday.

Army (6-5) can reach bowl eligibility by beating Navy on Dec. 10. Because two of Army’s victories are against Football Championship Subdivision teams — Morgan State and Lafayette College (Pa.) — when only one is counted toward bowl eligibility, the Black Knights have just five victories for bowl purposes.

But even if the Black Knights don’t defeat the Midshipmen they have a path to the postseason by virtue of having the highest Academic Progress Rating among the pool of losing teams that are 5-7 or better.

South Alabama (5-6) can secure bowl eligibility by beating New Mexico State. Although the Jaguars also have two victories over FCS opponents — Nicholls State and Presbyterian — they received an NCAA waiver this month because the Presbyterian game was the result of a midseason cancellation by LSU. The Jaguars were scheduled to play LSU, but the Tigers canceled the game in order to make up their Oct. 8 game with Florida, which was postponed due to Hurricane Matthew.

That left only Presbyterian, which had been scheduled to play Florida.

Meanwhile, the ’Bows need no longer sweat their bowl invitation. “Tell (UH athletic director) David Matlin I’m not waiting up until 2 a.m. (Central time) for his score anymore,” Waters said.