Fifth BCS bowl

[lcjjdnh]

In an effort to to appease the non-BCS schools, the BCS schools have agreed to add another bowl for two at-large teams. From ESPN.com

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=1747792

Sunday, February 29, 2004
Six conferences retain automatic bids

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Associated Press

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. -- The Bowl Championship Series agreed to add a fifth game Sunday, increasing access for schools not part of college football's most lucrative postseason system.




The champions of the six BCS conferences -- the Big East, ACC, SEC, Big 12, Big Ten and Pac-10 -- will maintain an automatic berth in one of the five games. The remaining four spots will be at-large berths to be decided by a complex formula using national rankings.




The fifth bowl is still subject to final approval based on market viability, but all indications point to it being in place when the new BCS contract takes effect before the 2007 season.




Oregon president Dave Frohnmayer, a member of the BCS Presidential Oversight Committee, said existing bowls probably will have the first shot at becoming the fifth BCS bowl.




"We are envisioning a bowl of equal stature in terms of its command of television audiences and its desirability from a standpoint of teams," Frohnmayer said. "Whether that would come from the volunteering of an existing bowl system and its own structure or the creation of a new bowl, that's something we simply can't determine at this point."




The current four BCS bowls are the Rose, Sugar, Fiesta and Orange. One of those bowls pits the top two teams in the BCS standings in a championship game, which will be the Orange Bowl next season. The Rose, Fiesta and Sugar host the other games.




Smaller schools complain that the BCS makes it impossible for them to win the national championship and puts them at a financial and recruiting disadvantage.




The BCS bowls generate more than $110 million a year for the big conferences. The BCS gives about $6 million a year to smaller conferences.




Frohnmayer said those figures will increase under the new format. This decision came after a six-hour meeting, the third between the BCS Presidential Oversight Committee and the Coalition for Athletics Reform, which has been fighting to change the current system.




Negotiations with the bowls and TV networks begin soon, starting almost immediately with next year's Rose Bowl, putting some sense of urgency to the talks.

[Easy Mac]

This changes what, how?

[MrBug708]

Harder for a playoff system, which I'm glad.

[Cringer]

And that prevents the same thing as this year from happening again how?

[tucker342]

It doesn't... hopefully they'll fix that also, but at least different teams will now have a shot at getting into a BCS Bowl

[General Mike]

"The committee and the BCS conceded that the new changes do not guarantee that a team from a non-BCS conference will play in one of the BCS bowls"

And the Mountain West, MAC, etc. teams get screwed again...

[duckman]

Absolutely fucking retarded!

[sterlingice]

Originally Posted by MrBug708

Harder for a playoff system, which I'm glad.

Yeah, because I know I'd much rather have the Levitra Cotton Bowl between Texas and Tennessee in the BCS this past season. That would have been much better than an actual playoff.

SI

[GoldenEagle]

Liberty Bowl for BCS!

[sooner333]

Three legitimate teams for the BCS, there's two ways to figure it out. one is have a four team playoff, which adds a non-contender. The other way is to have one team left out, which happened last year.

I like this unrelated move because it allows the smaller conferences more opportunity. I don't know what the "national ranking complex formula is" but whatever...getting better teams without having to worry about conference tie-ins makes for better games nationally. Texas better hope its the Holiday Bowl as the 5th game, because they're always there.

[JeeberD]

Originally Posted by GoldenEagle

Liberty Bowl for BCS!

No no no...it's gotta be the second oldest of all the bowl games, the Sun Bowl!

[QuikSand]

Setting aside the whole big picture debate... I never really understood the concept of the "S" in BCS. Where is the "series" there? Adding a fifth BCS game - what does this mean, exactly? It won't be the championship game... so what does it matter? More money? Is that it? An "arranged" matchup, rather than being slotted by your conference? Is that it? What does it matter?

[damnMikeBrown]

College Football is not about the $$! Really! It's all about the kids. Come on, another BCS game for the kids!

[SunDancer]

Originally Posted by QuikSand

Setting aside the whole big picture debate... I never really understood the concept of the "S" in BCS. Where is the "series" there? Adding a fifth BCS game - what does this mean, exactly? It won't be the championship game... so what does it matter? More money? Is that it? An "arranged" matchup, rather than being slotted by your conference? Is that it? What does it matter?

Isn't the new bowl being added to the "rotation"? Series I believes is mean for the "series" of bowls in the BCS system, as well as the rotation.

[Darkiller]

These College Football guys are still kidding themselves...that's pathetic.
I know the history part involved and all that, but as long as they will fail in having a Playoff system, these people will have no credibility whatsoever.