Some plz explain college football bowl game system simply.?

Question

I thought I got it before, but I think I may have got it wrong. I know the game and the divisions, but tell me about the bowls and how to pick who plays in each bowl, how each teams is ranked (like Boise state is undefeated but is like 8th or somethin), and any other useful stuff. Just got more interested in college football. K tks.

Btw, wow Tostito Bowl was frikin amazing huh.

Answer 1

There is a lot that goes into answering this question! I will explain it from the perspective of one conference and in conjunction with Boise ST.

The Western Athletic Conference (WAC) has three guaranteed bowl tie-ins. That means that if three teams from the WAC are bowl eligible (win 6 games) they are guaranteed a bowl game. The three WAC bowl games are MPC Computer Bowl (WAC 1 Vs ACC), Sheraton Hawaii Bowl (WAC 2 vs PAC 10) and New Mexico Bowl (WAC 3 vs MWC). So this year, Boise ST won the WAC with a 12-0 record and was 8th in the BCS standings. I will get back to this in a second. Hawaii was 11-2, Nevada was 8-4 and San Jose ST was 8-4. Since Boise ST was 8th in the BCS, they were guaranteed a spot in on of the BCS bowls by finishing 8th in the BCS standings. This left Hawaii in the Hawaii bowl because there is a by-law in the Hawaii bowl contract that if Hawaii is bowl eligible, they can be invited to the Hawaii bowl. Nevada went to the MPC Computers Bowl and San Jose ST went to the New Mexico bowl.

Now the WAC 1, 2, 3, designations for the bowl do not always hold true to actual WAC standings. As I mentioned, Hawaii was the highest WAC team after Boise ST but they did not go to the MPC computers Bowl because of the Hawaii bowl by-laws. Also San Jose St could have gone to the MPC Computers Bowl. Basically, the WAC Commissioner and executives can look at all of the bowl eligible teams and decide the right team for the right bowl. They felt the New Mexico Bowl was a better fit for SJSU then the MPC computers bowl so they sent them there. Also on that note, in the Mountain West Conference, New Mexico was chosen over Wyoming for the New Mexico bowl, even though both teams had identical records AND Wyoming beat New Mexico. Obviously New Mexico would be a better draw then Wyoming, so Wyoming was left in the cold with no bowl even though they were bowl eligible..

There are also At-Large bowl bids that can be given out. For example, the Poinsettia Bowl had an at-large bid that they were thinking of extending to SJSU. The contract stated that they could not take a 6 win team over an eligible 7 win team, so once SJSU had 7 wins, they could have gone to that bowl if they didn’t go to one of the WAC bowls!

In conclusion, its all about making money and conference bowl tie-ins! You want to finish as high as you can in your conference to increase your chances of going to a bowl and not ending up like Wyoming!

Answer 2

the first thought that came to my mind upon reading this post was 1. WHY is college tuition fee is America ridiculously expensive? WHY do colleges need so much money? A college is NOT a company like Apple or Microsoft. My sister will graduate from her 4 years of university soon and the total coast of tuition pee paid during those 4 years....is OMG too much. the amount is almost as much as the U.S. national debt. 2. do colleges REALLY need a lot of money? 3. America is currently facing an economic crisis; it is predicted to be one of the worst ever in U.S. history. So unemployment is a rising issue, the economy is getting spoiled and there are more innocent citizens suffering beneath the poverty line. And i am NOT against the government but the federal government doesn't seem to be sorting it out well. I don't know that much about the ecnonomy, so I learned from my sister (she's a business / economics major) and i can tell that the nation, the economy and so on are all facing a crisis. Soo....i don't know but unless the government promises to like help the poor pay for college or something I strongly suggest that colleges DO NOT raise tuition fees. Otherwise...America will face an even worse educational crisis. Does the stuff I typed make sense? hope it does. And......the good news is that the expensive tuition fee paid to a great college was actually worth it since my sister got a great job 2 weeks before graduation.

Answer 3

BCS bowls are determined by BCS ranking for the most of them except for the rose bowl is Big Ten vs. Pac-10, Sugar is BCS vs. BCS, N'tl champ game is BCS 1 vs. BCS 2, and the Orange is BCS vs. ACC, Fiesta is BCS vs. BCS, *note that no more than 2 teams from each conference can be in a BCS game.
Now for the rest, each team is picked by the bowl commitee of each bowl game. Now as you know some of these bowls consist of stronger teams and weaker teams. For example though, the Capital One Bowl had the first choice of taking a team from the SEC and Big Ten besides BCS teams. therefore eliminating Florida, LSU, OSU, and Michigan. They took Wisconsin and Arkansas. But in a weaker game like the let's say Las Vegas Bowl, the commitee gets the 4th choice from the Pac-10 and the 1st Mountain West. if you're still confused aim at salted mail

Answer 4

It's all about the money, it doesn't get any simpler then that.

Answer 5

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