By Stewart Mandel
In his uniquely informative and wonderful variety, popular university soccer author Stewart Mandel presents a complete consultant to school football's new period. He examines why it took a hundred forty five years for the game to undertake an easy four-team playoff. He demystifies the complicated rotation within which the Rose, Sugar and 4 different bowls will take turns webhosting semifinal video games. He examines the factors choice committee individuals like Tom Osborne and Condoleezza Rice will use to figure out the playoff box and different bowl members. And he applies the hot process to earlier seasons to demonstrate the various methods enthusiasts will event the game otherwise going ahead. Pay shut cognizance. There’s a quiz on the finish.
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To this day no one involved in the discussions has pinpointed a single impetus for the group’s seemingly sudden about-face. “They are listening to the fans,” BCS executive director Bill Hancock insisted that spring, minus an explanation why they’d tuned them out for 13 years before that. It’s easy to point to that year’s highly unpopular LSU-Alabama title game as the tipping point. Ironically, the one commissioner who’d championed a playoff the longest, the SEC’s Slive, now needed it the least.
Really rolls off the tongue, no? And technically, the game in Pasadena is the College Football Playoff at the Rose Bowl presented by Northwestern Mutual. Good luck, T-shirt designers. When the ESPN broadcast begins and the cameras pan the stadium, “the imagery will be a prominent playoff symbol at midfield,” said Kelly. “The iconic Rose Bowl [logo] will be on the field as well. m. ” And the answer is: They’re one and the same. Once every three years, when its turn in the playoff rotation comes up, the Rose Bowl will not host its traditional Big Ten-Pac-12 matchup.
Same teams, same rankings but pretend this is 2016-17, when the semifinal sites are the Peach and Fiesta. Notice how much the lineup changes. Dec. 31 Orange: No. 9 South Carolina (SEC/B1G/ND) vs. No. 12 Clemson (ACC) Dec. 31 Peach: No. 1 FSU (ACC champ) vs. No. 4 Michigan State (B1G champ) Dec. 31 Fiesta: No. 2 Auburn (SEC champ) vs. No. 3 Alabama (at-large) Jan. 2 Cotton: No. 10 Oregon (at-large) vs. No. 15 UCF (at-large) Jan. 2 Rose: No. 5 Stanford (Pac-12 champ) vs. No. 7 Ohio State (B1G) Jan.