TopCoog Wrote:Jackson, as you now know top Coog was correct about the Fiesta Bowl. The theory is why screw up the ratings of two bowls when you can limit the damage to one. Neither of those teams is a draw.
Uh, Top Coog it was reported on ESPN the Rose Bowl was getting ready to pick Utah instead of Texas but changed their mind at the last minute.
For future references this is how the BCS Bowls pick the teams, it was explained yesterday and blows your scenario out of the window.
The Top 2 teams go to the BCS Title Game which this years is the Orange Bowl.
If a Bowl is losing the number 1 team-(ie the Rose with USC) they get the first pick. They choose Texas over Utah. They have an automatic tie in with the Big 10 so that Bowl is set with a Michigan-Texas matchup.
The Bowl with the number 2 team-(ie the Fiesta with Oklahoma) gets the second pick and they choose Utah.
The Sugar as a automatic tie in with the SEC and they already have Auburn. They had the 3rd pick and they choose Virginia Tech. So that Bowl is set with a Auburn-Virginia Tech matchup.
The Fiesta Bowl took Pittsburgh and everything is now set. But the Pitt-Utah game was not a set in stone matchup that you made up until late Sunday afternoon. If Auburn was the number 2 team more then likely you would have had a Virginia Tech-Pittsburgh Sugar Bowl and a Utah-Michigan Rose Bowl.
BCS Bowl Tie Ins:
Rose Bowl-Big 10 and Pac 10
Fiesta Bowl-Big 12
Orange Bowl-ACC
Sugar Bowl-SEC
In most years if the ACC Champ and Big East Champ are not playing for the BCS Title and if neither are in the Top 2 you will likely have the traditional Orange Bowl Matchup of Big East vs. ACC. It has been like that for the past few years.