08-05-2010, 07:48 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Fayetteville, AR
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Re: Bowl Games Logic
If you guys think the bowl game logic is broke, then you don't pay much attention to real life.
Every season of dynasty I've played so far has looked all right in terms of what teams played in what bowls.
First "bowl game" to get its teams is the BCS National Championship game, which simply takes the #1 and #2 ranked teams per the BCS rankings.
Now, outside of this, for the other 4 BCS bowl games...
Rose Bowl, generally, gets the Pac-10 and Big Ten champs.
Fiesta Bowl, generally, gets the Big 12 champ and an at-large.
Orange Bowl, generally, gets the ACC champ and an at-large.
Sugar Bowl, generally, gets the SEC champ and an at-large.
Now, I say "generally" because if the conference champion in any of those examples is ranked #1 or #2 (and they almost always will be), then that slot is changed to an at-large.
If, for example Alabama finished ranked #1 and won the SEC and Ohio State finished ranked #2 and won the Big Ten.
Oregon won the Pac-10, Nebraska won the Big 12, and Clemson won the ACC.
First, the BCS game gets Bama/Fake-eyes.
Next, Rose Bowl gets Oregon, Fiesta Bowl gets Nebraska, and Orange Bowl gets Clemson.
Now, because Alabama won the SEC and finished ranked #1, the Sugar Bowl gets the FIRST at-large pick. Ohio State being ranked #2, the Rose Bowl gets the SECOND at-large pick. While history has shown that these bowls GENERALLY pick a team from the conference with the tie-in, they are by no means obligated. They pick the team that they think will give them the best draw. The last 4 Sugar Bowls picked the SEC runner-up, as the SEC champion was in the BCS NCG, and it's mostly because..well... look, the Sugar Bowl is in New Orleans, SEC fans will go see their team.
Rose Bowl picked Illinois not to long ago, when the Big Ten champ Ohio State was in the NCG. But again, these are not obligatory picks.
Once all of the tie-ins are either fulfilled or made up for with at-larges, then the other 3 at-large spots are filled. One of the 3 remaining at-large spots has to be filled with the Big East champion (unless they were picked to fill in for a team in the NCG).
Notre Dame makes themselves BCS eligible by finishing in the top 14, however they are only ELIGIBLE. If they finish in the top 8 however, they have an automatic BCS berth.
A team outside of ND and the BCS conferences receives an automatic BCS berth if they finish in the top 12 (I think, it may be 14 or 10 or something) AND are ranked ahead of one of the champions of one of the BCS conferences.
Outside of the BCS, no bowls have AT-LARGES except in the case that a conference fails to qualify as many teams as it has tie-ins. In the GMAC, for example, they get the 9th ACC pick and one of the top 3 MAC teams. Well, the ACC ends up with less than 9 bowl-eligible teams most of the time, so this is a really popular AT-LARGE bid.
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