July 13, 2005
Future Big 12 bowl assignments
As previsouly reported, the Big 12 has revamped it's bowl lineup. Here's the breakdown for the Big 12 bowl schedule, beginning with the 2006 season:
BCS Conference champ
Cotton First non-BCS team
Holiday Second non-BCS team
Gator/Sun Third/fourth non-BCS team*
Alamo Fourth/fifth non-BCS team*
Champs Fifth non-BCS team
Insight Sixth non-BCS team
TBD Seventh non-BCS team
* The Gator would select a Big 12 team in two of the four years of the new contract. The years that the Gator doesn't take a Big 12 team, the Sun gets a Big 12 team. In those years, the Alamo gets to select ahead of the Sun.
Comments:
Louis Johnson said:
posted on September 2, 2006 3:54 AM — 12.189.32.58 — link — abuse?
I fould an OLD article on the official Big 12 website that Madison Hawk is correct on the first 5.
However I have my doubts as to the order of the last 3. Using the order on CBSsportsline, it goes: 6. Insight, 7. Independence, and finally 8. Texas (formerly Houston). Again using the Big 12 site, I can say that the 3 bowls ARE INDEED the other 3 bowls with Big 12 ties. So the Champs Sports and Ft. Worth are indeed out, but the Independence is still part of the package.
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Madison Hawk said:
posted on July 13, 2005 6:48 PM — 204.124.240.254 — link — abuse?I appreciate your following the updated Bowl affiliations as there appears to be a dearth of coverage on other sites.
There are contradictory articles on what current affiliations the Big 12 will keep, but most of the ones I saw say that the Champs Sports (Big Ten vs. ACC), Independence (???) and Ft. Worth (???) are out. Also, I saw contradictory articles on the selection order, but that I saw have the following:
1. BCS
2. Cotton
3. Holiday
4. Gator (unless they select a Big East team), then the Alamo)
5. Alamo (unless the Gator selects a Big East team, then the Sun).
6. Houston
7. Insight
8. ???