04-27-2013, 09:51 PM
Why is this so difficult to understand? It's not really the old bowl tie-in, it's the venue. They need big stadiums in the south where the weather is reliable (mostly, it was 30 degrees for the Tech-Iowa Orange Bowl in Miami) or indoors.
"*** The semifinals will rotate among six bowls: Rose, Sugar, Fiesta, Orange, Cotton and Chick-fil-A (in Atlanta, if youre unfamiliar).
The Rose and Sugar are up first in Jan. 15 followed by the Orange and Cotton and then the Fiesta and Chick-fil-A.
That rotation repeats every three years, so each bowl hosts a semifinal four times."
It's just an east-west split in the south. I'm sure they can keep Pac12 teams more to the west and SEC teams mostly in the east if they are worried about filling venues, although I doubt that will be a problem.
Year 1: Los Angeles, New Orleans
Year 2: Dallas, Miami
Year 3: Phoenix, Atlanta
Seems like a fairly logical split to me. Where should that sixth venue be instead of Atlanta? Birmingham? Tuscaloosa? Auburn? Tallahassee? Knoxville? Charlotte? Jacksonville might actually work.
They obviously aren't looking to the north (Seattle, Detroit, Chicago, New York). Can't say I blame them.
"*** The semifinals will rotate among six bowls: Rose, Sugar, Fiesta, Orange, Cotton and Chick-fil-A (in Atlanta, if youre unfamiliar).
The Rose and Sugar are up first in Jan. 15 followed by the Orange and Cotton and then the Fiesta and Chick-fil-A.
That rotation repeats every three years, so each bowl hosts a semifinal four times."
It's just an east-west split in the south. I'm sure they can keep Pac12 teams more to the west and SEC teams mostly in the east if they are worried about filling venues, although I doubt that will be a problem.
Year 1: Los Angeles, New Orleans
Year 2: Dallas, Miami
Year 3: Phoenix, Atlanta
Seems like a fairly logical split to me. Where should that sixth venue be instead of Atlanta? Birmingham? Tuscaloosa? Auburn? Tallahassee? Knoxville? Charlotte? Jacksonville might actually work.
They obviously aren't looking to the north (Seattle, Detroit, Chicago, New York). Can't say I blame them.
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