![]() ![]() The system prevents some bowls from being seen as toilet bowls, because they're being forced to take different teams all the time. A bunch of bowls have agreements to only feature certain teams in X number of years, and some bowls won't take a regular season rematch in any given year.But in years when the Orange Bowl takes a Big Ten team, the conference gives up its Citrus bid to the ACC. The Big Ten normally gets a bid to the Citrus, for example. The ACC and Big Ten also share a few bowl games: the Citrus, Music City, and TaxSlayer.In these cases, it's the conference (not the bowl) that has final say over invites. That " SEC 3-8" mess in a few bowls above, for example? That means that bowl is part of a group of six bowls that each get an SEC team that fell past the Playoff, New Year's Six, and Citrus. The ACC, Big Ten, and SEC have pooled some of their bowl bids into groups that the conferences control.They want good relationships with schools, conferences, and cities, all of whom have interest in rewarding good teams that had good seasons, but most bowls have little incentive to select a team because of its record, unless that record will inspire more fans to attend. Whether it actually picks the second place team is a different matter.īowls care about attendance and revenue. It means the Alamo gets the second pick of the non-Playoff teams in both leagues. Pac-12 2" in the Alamo Bowl, that doesn't mean that the second-place teams in those leagues play each other. Rather, most conferences have draft orders. Here are the basics (the number next to a conference's name indicates that bowl's spot in that conference's picking order and does not necessarily correlate to conference standings):įor the most part, conference bowl tie-ins aren't pegged to specific spots in the league standings. The Rose, Sugar, and Orange take the conference champions or next-highest teams from their associated conferences, and the Cotton gets the top-ranked mid-major champion and the top-ranked at-large.Īfter that, everyone joins in. ![]() (For example, Alabama would rather host in Atlanta than in Arizona.) 4 seed in whichever semi is closer to its campus. The Playoff semifinals will be determined by the Playoff committee, with the No. This year, that means the Peach, Fiesta, and Cotton Bowls are open to all. The games without any conference ties are the Playoff bowls and, in this year's rotation, one of the other New Year’s Six games. Almost every bowl has conference tie-ins.Ĭonferences negotiate bowl partnerships before seasons begin, usually years in advance, but actual team matchups usually aren't determined until the Sunday after conference championship weekend. Nor do the sport’s lesser bowls take teams simply according to how good they are. While it would make sense for the country’s top 12 teams to get slotted, in order of prestige, into the New Year’s Six bowls, that’s not what happens. When there aren’t enough 6-6 teams to fill out the 41 bowls, some 5-7 teams get bids based on the NCAA's academic progress standings. Basically, every FBS team that wins at least six games is eligible (only one win against an FCS team counts toward the six, and if a team plays 13, it's supposed to need seven wins, but these days, teams with two FCS wins or 6-7 records can usually still get in). The first step is figuring out who's bowl-eligible. The country’s 128 FBS teams spend the year vying for spots in one of 41 bowls, ranging from the New Year’s Six and College Football Playoff semifinals to the likes of the AutoNation Cure Bowl in Orlando. There are so many college football bowl games that the NCAA decided this year to put a moratorium on adding more of them.
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