🏈 SEC has 10 bowls guaranteed in 2014

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The SEC will have guaranteed bowl spots for at least 10 of its 14 members beginning in 2014, sources told ESPN.

The bowl affiliations will be filled after any SEC teams qualify for the College Football Playoff semifinals.

Following the semifinals, the next-highest-ranked SEC team will advance to the Allstate Sugar Bowl.

Also, in years the Discover Orange Bowl does not host the national semifinals, a team from the SEC, Big Ten or Notre Dame will play in the Orange Bowl against the ACC.

The SEC will send a team to the Orange Bowl a minimum of three years during the 12-year contract.

After SEC teams are placed in the playoffs, Sugar and/or Orange bowls, the SEC will have guaranteed bowl spots for nine more teams, sources said.

The SEC's next pick will go to the Capital One Bowl, sources said.

After the Capital One Bowl (Orlando, Fla.), six bowls will be pooled together and share the next six selections. Sources said the bowls that will share the SEC's second through seventh selections are: AutoZone Liberty (Memphis), Belk (Charlotte, N.C.), Franklin American Mortgage Music City (Nashville, Tenn.), Outback (Tampa, Fla.), Taxslayer.com Gator (Jacksonville, Fla.) and Texas (Houston).

The SEC's final two bowl slots will be the AdvoCare V100 (Shreveport, La.) and BBVA Compass (Birmingham, Ala.).

In the Capital One Bowl, an SEC team will face a Big Ten team unless a Big Ten team is chosen for the Orange Bowl. When that occurs, the ACC would replace a Big Ten team to face the SEC.

The SEC's opponents in the remaining eight bowls are: Belk (ACC), Gator (ACC/Big Ten), Music City (ACC/Big Ten), Liberty (Big 12), Outback (Big Ten), Texas (Big 12), AdvoCare V100 (ACC) and BBVA Compass (American).

Excluding the College Football Playoff semifinals, Sugar and Orange bowls, the SEC will face another "power five" conference in eight of its nine bowl games.

By Brett McMurphy | ESPN

 

[riz]

What happened to the SEC-Big 12 dealio? I thought that was, in essence, replacing the Sugar bowl.

 

[TerryP]

What happened to the SEC-Big 12 dealio? I thought that was, in essence, replacing the Sugar bowl.

"After SEC teams are placed in the playoffs, Sugar and/or Orange bowls, the SEC will have guaranteed bowl spots for nine more teams, sources said."

 

[riz]

"After SEC teams are placed in the playoffs, Sugar and/or Orange bowls, the SEC will have guaranteed bowl spots for nine more teams, sources said."

Understand. I think thta must be the "new" Sugar Bowl. SEC champ vs Big 12 champ, if not in playoff game.

 

[TerryP]

Understand. I think thta must be the "new" Sugar Bowl. SEC champ vs Big 12 champ, if not in playoff game.

One thing I think they screwed up on with the playoffs is trying to keep a playoff game as a bowl game. IE: There's a playoff game at the Rose Bowl, but in my opinion they should have had the Rose Bowl game, and then a playoff game.

Don't get me wrong. I like the fact they're being played on Jan. 1 more than my little quibble about how the Sugar bowl changes on opponents depending on if it's in the playoffs, isn't, if there's an SEC team in the playoffs or isn't, if the Big12...

It's going to take a season or three for people to get used to the new system.

 

[riz]

yeah, I'm all confused. Which is normal. Carry on.

 

[TerryP]

I may have this wrong because the way the Cotton Bowl officials described their scenario was different than the way I understood the Sugar Bowl.

• It's always the Sugar Bowl.
• When it's not in the playoff rotation the committee selects the teams participating. (Confusion enters...)
• There's an agreement with the SEC and the Big12 if their conference champs aren't in the playoffs, they meet in the Sugar. (Confusion scale tipping over when...)

What happens if the Big12 champ doesn't get in the playoff, but the SEC champ does? Does that mean the Big12 champ faces the #2 team from the SEC? Does that mean the deal is off and it (Sugar) makes it (participants) an at-large invitation/assignment?

.....

Let me add more confusion.

We see the bowl projections each season from different media outlets. That wasn't real difficult to do because there was a pecking order within the SEC on which team went where. Sure, there was still a little guess work with games like the Cap One who had both divisions to choose from, and the ability to choose any team as long as they were within one game of the SEC runner-up.

But now the SEC office is going to determine who plays where. Who chooses first? In the golf national title matches the higher ranked team chooses second. Is the SEC office going to be able to see who is the other team (in say the Gator bowl) and then select which SEC team they want to play that team? If so, imagine the outrage from some schools when their team gets to a bowl game and the SEC decides to put a team against them that's ranked higher.

 

[riz]

@TerryP

Clear as mud, amirite?

 

[TerryP]

@TerryP

Clear as mud, amirite?

I'm hours away from my bowl projections for this season. :eyeroll: