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OT -- Bowl Games Critique to Date
Posted By: Bill Riles In Response To: OT -- Bowl Games Critique to Date (Bob Koca)
Date: Saturday, 2 January 2010, at 7:11 p.m.
#1 and #2 in the final BCS rankings play in the National Championship game.
In the other four BCS bowls -- Rose, Fiesta, Sugar, Orange -- there are certain conference alignments and then some at-large selections.
Pac-10 and Big 10 champs go to the Rose Bowl, Big 12 Champ goes to the Fiesta Bowl, SEC champ goes to the Sugar Bowl, and ACC champ goes to the Orange Bowl. Guess the Big East -- the other 'BCS' conference -- is the unaligned stepchild. If a bowl loses a team to the National Championship Game that bowl then gets first choice among other teams to replace the team they lost.
Thus, this year Ohio State vs. Oregon in Rose Bowl by default. Sugar Bowl lost Alabama and Fiesta Bowl lost Texas to the National Championship Game.
There is a rotating picking order among the bowls. I think this year it was Sugar, Fiesta, Orange -- I might be wrong.
Anyway, Sugar chose Florida to replace Alabama and Fiesta chose TCU to replace Texas. Georgia Tech was locked into Orange. Then Sugar took Cincinnati, Fiesta took Boise State, and Orange took Iowa.
BCS claims, beyond setting the rules, they have no influence and the bowls are free to choose as they may. Such things as regional influences, travelling fans history, pairing matchup, etc. come into play.
Many feel this year though that it was quite predictable that TCU and Boise State would play each other to protect the BCS conference schools from another potentially embarrassing loss -- such as Boise State over Oklahoma in Fiesta 3 years ago, Utah over Alabama in Sugar last year, and Utah crushing Pittsburgh in the Fiesta 5 years ago. This was the first year that two non-BCS conference schools -- TCU and Boise State -- made the BCS bowls. So, they end up playing each other.
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