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Has anyone heard anything more about the 5th BCS bowl??

Well, I suppose that it will be the Cotton Bowl. Holy crap it is late, I have to get to bed!

Existing bowls will get the first shot, probably a bowl like the Cotton or Gator or Peach. Nothing has been settled yet that I know of.

i think the Cotton has the best chance from what I have read.

I definitely think the Cotton Bowl. Back in the day, if the NC wasn't decided by the Rose, it was decided by the Cotton. I read that the Cotton Bowl is doing some major renovations. They are also considering building a new stadium, one with a retractable roof. Apparently the crazy north Texas weather is too much of a gamble to host the game there.

David wrote:I was suprised when the Cotton Bowl wasn't chosen as one of the four original BCS bowls where is the tradition in the Fiesta Bowl compared to the Cotton. I have heard since then that area surrounding the Cotton Bowl has declined and that probably had a lot to do with them not being part of the original four BCS bowls.

Cotton Bowl was in the mix then before the Rose Bowl entered the picture.
Do not remember if it was called BCS then

Howdy

Im sure you guys are pretending to be stupid.
The fifth bowl is the national championship bowl, they already have added it, and it's just one of the four bowls already in place, only difference is it's played one week after the 4 BCS bowl games.
That is, unless they modified the format again.

I've heard that suggestion too. I didn't know if it was fact or not.

WEll htat's the format I"m familiar with, they abandoned the idea to include an existing bowl, the jerk!

colorado_loves_football wrote:Im sure you guys are pretending to be stupid.
The fifth bowl is the national championship bowl, they already have added it, and it's just one of the four bowls already in place, only difference is it's played one week after the 4 BCS bowl games.
That is, unless they modified the format again.

OK...So what's it named?????

CFL is right, they currently planing on playing the Rose, Fiesta, Orange, and Sugar and then rotating the championship game between the same sites a week after the bowls are played. I don't think it is set in stone though.

As best I understand it, they will be having 5 BCS bowls, the four already in place (Rose, Fiesta, Sugar, Orange) and the 'Championship' bowl, one week after. I'm surprised you didn't already know about that, but that's how it is, and actually Spence I think it is set in stone!

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A 5th bowl will be added. 10 teams will be selected to play in the five bowls. You'll still have the same six BCS conference champs, but now there will be 4 at-large teams.

Read the article at
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=1747792

That's the way to do it! This way, you don't guarantee a bid for a non-BCS team, but if they are truly good enough, they'll get the bid. You can't give a bid to the highest ranked mid-major, because every year you can't be positive that there will be a 10, 11 win mid-major. TCU had 10 this year, I'm not sure if they compared to the 2004 Louisville Cardinals, 2004 Boise State Broncos, or the 2004 Utah Utes, but you know. You have to give schools like this a chance, and if they pull it off, it could be very good for their recruiting class. This way, it is like the old system, where you can have the Pac-10 vs. Big 10 matchup every year, the Big East vs. SEC matchup in the Sugar Bowl, and so on. Well, at least they are more likely to happen.

colorado_loves_football wrote:As best I understand it, they will be having 5 BCS bowls, the four already in place (Rose, Fiesta, Sugar, Orange) and the 'Championship' bowl, one week after. I'm surprised you didn't already know about that, but that's how it is, and actually Spence I think it is set in stone!

OK. What's the Name of that bowl?? Or is going to go nameless?