Bowl tie-ins (for conference realignment)

[GeneralMike]

Quote: Originally Posted by dochalladay32

You have to be careful with your numbering because you left out a lot of split and contingency bids. Example, the Sun Belt actually has 2 + 3, and more often than not, they pick up some of those contingency bids. Same with the MAC. They sent 4 last year, using a contingency bid. Sun Belt sent 3. C-USA is really 5 + 2. The SEC is really 8/9 and the Big East is 6/7 as they share a Liberty Bowl bid... which won't happen in real life this year because no way they send 7 out of their 8 teams, but in the game, a larger Big East might use them.

FWIW, the Big East's contingency plan with the Liberty Bowl is more dependent on what happens with the SEC. If the SEC doesn't have enough bowl teams to fill the BBVA Compass Bowl, then the Big East team that would normally go to the Compass Bowl goes to the Liberty Bowl to play an SEC team there and Conference USA can send their champ to one of their other bowls, and a Conference USA team would also go to the BBVA Compass Bowl. If the SEC doesnt have enough teams for Liberty or BBVA, then the Big East team plays CUSA champ in the Liberty, and Compass has to go to contingency picks.

That said, NCAA has never done contingency picks well. Notre Dame has always had an affiliation with certain Big East affiliated bowls, notably the Gator in the past, and I remember one version of NCAA where Notre Dame went to the Gator Bowl 5 straight years in a dynasty.

[dochalladay32]

Quote: Originally Posted by GeneralMike

FWIW, the Big East's contingency plan with the Liberty Bowl is more dependent on what happens with the SEC. If the SEC doesn't have enough bowl teams to fill the BBVA Compass Bowl, then the Big East team that would normally go to the Compass Bowl goes to the Liberty Bowl to play an SEC team there and Conference USA can send their champ to one of their other bowls, and a Conference USA team would also go to the BBVA Compass Bowl. If the SEC doesnt have enough teams for Liberty or BBVA, then the Big East team plays CUSA champ in the Liberty, and Compass has to go to contingency picks. That said, NCAA has never done contingency picks well. Notre Dame has always had an affiliation with certain Big East affiliated bowls, notably the Gator in the past, and I remember one version of NCAA where Notre Dame went to the Gator Bowl 5 straight years in a dynasty.

The C-USA champion is locked into the Liberty Bowl unless it makes the BCS. It's C-USA #1 vs. SEC OR Big East. You won't see Big East vs. SEC. Not sure where you got your info that says if the SEC is short, C-USA gets bumped. http://conferenceusa.cstv.com/sports...-partners.html