(06-11-2021 12:12 AM)Frank the Tank Wrote:  

(06-10-2021 11:51 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(06-10-2021 04:01 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  Interesting thing here is that they are saying that Bowls will be both quarter and semi final sites. I’m curious how that will work because the Rose is pretty dead set on being on NYD, seeing as there’s a big parade and all. I see two ways this could go:

The Rose is locked in as a permanent quarterfinal site, while the other 5 alternate between being semis and quarter sites

Alternatively, I can see where 2 of the 6 NY6 bowls host two games when it’s their turn to be a semi final: an exhibition on/around NYD, and then the semifinal 7-10 days later. This would be similar to the later half of the BCS era, where there would be a Rose Bowl game and then a BCS NCG in Pasadena later in January.

Maybe a bowl like the Fiesta will WANT to be a semi and give up NYD.

Maybe it goes this way (whiteboarding this off the top of my head):

(1) The 3 contract bowls are all permanent quarterfinals with tie-ins if their respective conference partners make the top 4: Rose gets the best top 4 Big Ten or Pac-12 champ, Sugar gets the best top 4 SEC or Big 12 champ, and Orange gets the best top 4 ACC champ (or Big Ten or SEC champ if they don’t make the Rose/Sugar).

(2) 1 access bowl is the fourth quarterfinal and the other 2 are semifinals, with the mix rotating each year.

(3) National championship game is bid out to a neutral site just like today.

I could see that but I could also see the Sugar hosting a semi and the Peach hosting the SEC champ some years if the Sugar wants to host a semi.

I suppose it depends on what the bowls want.