Oregon jumps UCLA, Auburn to barely reach #4; will face UConn in Sugar Bowl
Oregon has pulled off the improbable. Ranked #11 two weeks ago, and #9 coming into conference championship week, Oregon knocked off two-time defending national champions UCLA in overtime of the Pac-12 Championship.
As a result, the Ducks jumped UCLA and 5th ranked Auburn, as well as North Carolina, Marshall and Missouri, and are now ranked #4 and will play in the College Football Playoff.
And that is where we meet our UConn Huskies. The Ducks and #1 UConn meet in the Allstate Sugar Bowl, the late game on New Year's Day. Oregon won the first ever Playoff in January 2015, and is making their first appearance since. UConn is in the playoff for the first time ever.
TCU moved up to #2 and Florida, courtesy of winning the SEC championship, moved up to #3. The two will play in the Rose Bowl, a 4:30 start on New Year's. TCU is also making their first Playoff appearance, whereas Florida lost the CFP Championship to UCLA in January 2016.
Full Bowl Map
Again, for those of you who may or may not have caught up, I started changing corporate sponsors of a bunch of bowl games last season, as you'd see in real life. Found a list of Fortune 500 companies and related their locations to the games and went from there. There was a list of changes posted earlier in the month, but if anyone's curious I'll repost it. CAC bowl games are highlighted, 4 of 6 is a definite improvement over 2 of 5 last year. Now let's make it something like 12 of 14 next year haha.
Sugar Bowl coming soon, with a surprise. Hmmmm.......we shall soon find out, maybe as soon as tomorrow. #RiseUpTogether!
ALSO: 25k views...damn. You guys are the best! This 'chise will by the end of the night be inside the top 35 most viewed 'chises of all-time here. Incredible!
Royal Purple New Mexico: Kentucky (7-5) vs. Baylor (8-4)
Famous Idaho Potato: Ohio (9-3) vs. Wyoming (8-4)
San Diego Country Credit Union Poinsettia: Memphis (7-4) vs. Boise St. (10-3)
Tropicana St. Petersburg: Southern Miss (7-5) vs. Navy (7-5)
R&L Carriers New Orleans: FIU (6-6) vs. #20 New Mexico St. (10-2)
Amazon Las Vegas: #24 Arizona State (8-4) vs. San Diego St. (11-2)
Sheraton Hawai'i: Western Kentucky (9-3) vs. Colorado St. (8-4)
Quick Lane (pres. by Ford): Purdue (6-6) vs. Buffalo (7-5)
CitiBank Military (pres. by Northrop Grumman): Bowling Green (6-6) vs. Army (7-5)
Chevron Holiday: West Virginia (6-6) vs. #16 USC (9-3)
Bank Of America: Clemson (7-5) vs. UCF (7-5)
Duck Commander Independence: Tulsa (8-4) vs. NC St. (6-6)
Advocare V100 Texas: #18 Michigan (8-4) vs. #25 BYU (9-3)
Russell Athletic: Notre Dame (8-4) vs. #23 Georgia Tech (8-4)
Lockheed Martin Armed Forces: Florida Atlantic (7-5) vs. New Mexico (7-5)
eBay.com: #21 Florida St. (7-5) vs. Cal (6-6)
Valero Alamo: #19 Oklahoma St. (8-4) vs. #15 Oregon St. (10-2)
TicketCity Cactus: Texas (8-4) vs. Nebraska (7-6)
Franklin American Mortgage Music City: Tennessee (6-5) vs. Boston College (7-6)
Hyundai Sun Bowl: #11 Arizona (9-3) vs. Miami-FL (8-4)
AutoZone Liberty: USF (9-3) vs. Rice (9-4)
ExxonMobil Dallas: Temple (6-6) vs. Northwestern (6-6)
TECO Energy Outback: Georgia (7-5) vs. #13 Ohio State (9-3)
Fidelity: Vanderbilt (7-5) vs. Rutgers (8-4)
Buffalo Wild Wings Citrus: #22 Ole Miss (9-4) vs. #17 Michigan St. (10-3)
Birmingham: Tulane (9-4) vs. Penn St. (7-5)
Time Warner Cable: Kent State (8-5) vs. Texas St. (7-5)
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New Year's Six
Discover Orange: #10 Oklahoma (9-3) vs. #12 Western Michigan (12-1)
Goodyear Cotton: #9 North Carolina (9-3) vs. #8 Marshall (11-2)
VIZIO Fiesta: #5 Auburn (10-2) vs. #6 UCLA (11-2)
Chick-Fil-A-Peach: #7 Missouri (9-3) vs. #14 Virginia Tech (11-2)
Rose pres. by Best Buy (CFP SEMIFINAL): #3 Florida (12-1) vs. #2 TCU (11-1)
Allstate Sugar (CFP SEMIFINAL): #4 Oregon (11-2) vs. #1 UConn (13-0)
College Football Playoff Championship (January 8, Miami, FL): Winner Rose Bowl vs. Winner Sugar Bowl
Thanks UK. I'm having a blast doing this... I feel like I've tried to be too serious in past projects, I'm just having more fun with it and it's finding me more success.
We've reached 14...CAC's. Damn. I was going to try some new graphics for that, but now that we've more than doubled our pool, I'll need to rethink that. But excited to see so many CAC's!
