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  • Azubuike24
    After Notre Dame sealed the deal, the BCS picture is pretty much set. The Fiesta Bowl picks first, the Sugar Bowl second and the Orange Bowl third. The Sugar Bowl loses the SEC Champion therefore will get the top non-qualifying selection.

    Honestly, I think right now, outside of the automatic bids, there is absolutely zero drama as to who gets in the BCS. Right now, Florida and Oregon are at-large bid locks. The only drama is going to be for the final at-large spot. Kansas State plays Texas and Oklahoma plays TCU. If both of them win, both are BCS bound. If either lose (especially OU), there is an outside shot that Boise State or *gasp*, Kent State gets in. Likely, Clemson would be back in the mix. It would have to be Oklahoma though as K-State won't fall far enough.

    Amazingly, Alabama/Georgia, LSU, Texas A&M and South Carolina will all finish in the BCS top 9 and will be left out...

    BCS National Championship Game (Miami, FL)
    Notre Dame (non-AQ) vs Alabama/Georgia (SEC Champion)

    Discover Orange Bowl
    Florida State/Georgia Tech (ACC Champion) vs Louisville/Rutgers/Syracuse/Cincinnati (Big East Champion)

    Allstate Sugar Bowl
    Florida (#1 At-Large Selection) vs Oklahoma (#3 At-Large Selection)

    Tostitos Fiesta Bowl
    Kansas State/Oklahoma (Big XXII Champion) vs Oregon (#2 At-Large Selection)

    Rose Bowl Game
    Stanford/UCLA (Pac 12 Champion) vs Wisconsin/Nebraska (B1G Champion)
  • dazedconfused
    they have got to change that rule
  • Classyposter58
    dazedconfused;1328434 wrote:they have got to change that rule
    Yeah I agree. They're gonna slaughter their opponents in the non-BCS games
  • ptown_trojans_1
    Florida getting in over the Bama/ Geo loser is a complete joke. It is just like Mich going to the Sugar over MSU.
    Georiga beat UF head to head, and its reward is a conference title game, yet if they lose, they don't get an at-large?
    What a joke.
  • ptown_trojans_1
    dazedconfused;1328434 wrote:they have got to change that rule
    What so the Orange Bowl is all SEC?
    Nah, I'll pass.
  • sleeper
    ptown_trojans_1;1328983 wrote:Florida getting in over the Bama/ Geo loser is a complete joke. It is just like Mich going to the Sugar over MSU.
    Georiga beat UF head to head, and its reward is a conference title game, yet if they lose, they don't get an at-large?
    What a joke.
    Yeah but if Georgia wins they go to a BCS bowl and Bama gets left out LOL.
  • Azubuike24
    That's just how it works. The SEC Title Game loser has 2 losses. Florida has 1. The Gators get the nod, if anything, because they are guaranteed a BCS bid by finishing in the top 4 of the final standings.

    It's not necessarily right, but if Bama is the loser, they have 2 losses, Florida has 1, and they didn't play each other.
  • ptown_trojans_1
    Azubuike24;1329002 wrote:That's just how it works. The SEC Title Game loser has 2 losses. Florida has 1. The Gators get the nod, if anything, because they are guaranteed a BCS bid by finishing in the top 4 of the final standings.

    It's not necessarily right, but if Bama is the loser, they have 2 losses, Florida has 1, and they didn't play each other.
    That's messed up. Why nail UGA or Bama for playing for the title?
    Plus, both are better than UF in my book. It is the same with Mich last year. A joke.
  • Azubuike24
    I mean it's two-fold.

    I'm sure Florida would rather be playing for the SEC CG and a shot at the BCS CG vs a guaranteed Sugar Bowl bid...
  • Cleveland Buck
    There probably won't be any at large decisions this time. The spots will all be taken.

    Notre Dame - BCS #1
    Alabama - SEC Champion
    Nebraska - Big Ten Champion
    Stanford - Pac-12 Champion
    Kansas State - Big XII Champion
    Florida State - ACC Champion
    Rutgers - Big East Champion
    Florida - BCS Top 4
    Oregon - BCS Top 4
    Kent State - BCS Top 16 ranked ahead of a BCS conference champion

    Kent State is #17 right now. UCLA is #16. If Stanford beats UCLA and Kent beats #21 Northern Illinois, they will certainly get into the top 16, and there is no possibility of the Big East champion being ranked higher than them.

    The selection order will be Sugar, Fiesta, Sugar, Orange, so the only choice in the matter is if the Sugar Bowl takes Kent State or the Big East champion, and the other one is left to play FSU in the Orange Bowl.

    BCS National Championship
    Notre Dame (12-0) vs. Alabama (12-1, 7-1, SEC Champion)

    Rose Bowl
    Nebraska (11-2, 7-1. Big Ten Champion) vs. Stanford (11-2, 8-1, Pac-12 Champion)

    Fiesta Bowl
    Kansas State (11-1, 8-1, Big XII Champion) vs. Oregon (11-1, 8-1, At Large)

    Sugar Bowl
    Florida (11-1, 7-1, At Large) vs. Kent State (12-1, 8-0, At Large)

    Orange Bowl
    Florida State (11-2, 7-1, ACC Champion) vs. Rutgers (11-2, 6-1, Big East Champion)