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Originally Posted by DaKCMan AP
The way I see the BCS shaping up if the season ended today:
BCS National Championship: Florida/Alabama vs Texas/Oklahoma
Orange Bowl: Georgia Tech/Florida state vs USC
Rose Bowl: Penn St vs Oregon State
Sugar Bowl: Florida/Alabama vs Cincinnati
Fiesta Bowl: Texas/Oklahoma vs Utah
The at-large bids would be USC, Florida/Alabama, and Texas/Oklahoma. Utah gets an automatic bid.
The selection process works such that:
- the Sugar and Fiesta would first pick replacements for the NCG teams: Sugar taking the loser of Florida/Alabama and Fiesta taking whichever of Texas/OU doesn't make the NCG.
- Rose bowl is set as Big 10 champ vs Pac 10 champ
- Orange gets ACC Champ
then to fill out the bowls the selection order goes Fiesta, Sugar, Orange.
In years past the Fiesta has taken the non-BCS conference at-large/automatic bid plus Utah is close to Glendale so I threw Utah in the Fiesta Bowl.
The SEC has often taken the Big East Champ so I threw Cincinnati there.
That leaves USC going to the Orange Bowl.
Not the greatest matchups, but it's how I see it going.
If I were picking the matchups still following the selection procedure I'd set the bowl games as follows:
BCS National Championship: Florida/Alabama vs Texas/Oklahoma
Orange: Florida State/Ga Tech vs Cincinnati
Rose: Penn State vs Oregon State
Sugar: Florida/Alabama vs USC**
Fiesta: Texas/Oklahoma vs Utah**
** If Florida goes to the Sugar I would have Florida vs USC. If Alabama goes I'd have Alabama vs Utah and USC in the Fiesta.
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You're probably right, but how can anyone justify not putting Boise State in the BCS if they go undefeated. They already have a BCS win to their program's credit.
I could very easily see the BCS invitees be Texas/Oklahoma (depending on who doesn't play in the Big 12 championship), Florida/Alabama loser, Utah, Boise State. Also, I have to wonder if Alabama gets thumped the way Tech did last night, will Alabama drop out of BCS contention also? That would open the door for USC to get in.
Somebody is going to get royally screwed. It's likely going to be Boise State or USC.