Comment: The top two teams -- Florida and Texas -- are projected to meet in Pasadena. The Gators will be looking for their third title in the past four seasons, while Texas is looking for its first since 2005.
The champions of selected conferences are contractually committed to certain bowls, unless they are No. 1 or No. 2. (ACC: Orange; Big Ten: Rose; Big 12: Fiesta; Pac-10: Rose; SEC: Sugar). If a Bowl loses a host team to the title game, then the bowl gets first choice at a replacement team. The rest of the selection order for 2010 is as follows: Orange, Fiesta, Sugar.
One champion from C-USA, MAC, Mountain West, Sun Belt or WAC will earn an automatic berth in a BCS bowl game if either: A. Such team is ranked in the top 12 of the final BCS Standings, or, B. Such team is ranked in the top 16 of the final BCS Standings and its ranking in the final BCS Standings is higher than that of a champion of a conference that has an annual automatic berth in one of the BCS bowls.
Comment: The ACC champion is locked to the Orange Bowl and we project it to be Georgia Tech. The Yellow Jackets will face Clemson in the ACC title game with the winner landing here. The Orange Bowl gets the first pick after the replacement picks and takes an undefeated TCU.
Comment: The Big 12 champion is locked to the Fiesta Bowl, but with Texas projected to the title game, the Fiesta gets a replacement pick. With Oklahoma State's loss to Oklahoma, it opens the door for the Fiesta to take either Iowa or Penn State and pair it with an undefeated Boise State.
Comment: With Florida going to the title game, the Sugar Bowl will take a one-loss Alabama as a replacement pick. Cincinnati defeated Pittsburgh 45-44 to win the Big East Conference and will land here.
Comment: The Pac-10 champion vs. the Big Ten champion. Oregon clinched the Pac-10 on Thursday night with a victory over Oregon State and will head to Pasadena. Ohio State wrapped up the Big Ten title with its overtime victory over Iowa earlier in the season and will also head to the Rose Bowl.
Teams in bold have accepted bids. If Army is bowl-eligible, it will play in the EagleBank Bowl. If not, a C-USA team can replace it. Navy is slated to play in the Texas Bowl if it is bowl-eligible. The Sun Belt has a deal with the St. Petersburg Bowl if C-USA can not fill its selections. * - Replacement team.
That SMU is even in a bowl. Hope Stan and Muffy enjoy the one bowl game few people will watch, since it's Christmas Eve.
The Eagle Bank bowl. Who the crap cares?
Does anyone know this is never going to be about finding the best team? 34 bowls, and they could care less if they get 10,000 fans and 60,000 empty seats. The Fuller Brush Co
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Best coach in the programs history, 3 bowl wins in last 3 years, and look at the record in the past 8 years as opposed to the previous 90 years. Just another case of pampered athletes having to much to say, and believing everybody cares. Every coach would be in trouble if they were held to everything they say. Players today forget that it is a priviledge to play football in a major football progra
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Two or three years ago I made an objective attempt to rate the strength of the conferences.The results surprised me and also gave me a new respect for some of the conferences I had written-off.I’ll explain the perimeters after the ratings.Within those perimeters this exercise is as objective as I can get. It's
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How are these crappy bowl games and BCS BS the best way to figure a National Champion? There are some very good one loss and two loss football teams out there that could possibly win a NC. If you took 16 teams (Eleven Conference winners and Five Wild card teams) and played them in a playoff with these bowl games how is that not better? Every game would matter and you would have a real NC
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It seems to be the chic thing to do-- bash the Big 10, but to quote Keith Jackson... "Whoa Nelly." Sure Michigan is down, and OSU and Penn State aren't in the National Title picture, but let's look at the Big 10 when compared to the other BCS conferences. Does anyone want to win the PAC 10? Pre-season darling USC is in the middle of the pack (no pun intended) with 3 con
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