New SEC bowl selection process

[Gator Fever]

https://www.stltoday.com/sports/col...cle_51e9a0b9-6373-5747-bd64-690822d16117.html

Not sure I like these changes with the SEC mostly controlling where teams go. The SEC champion is guaranteed a spot in one of those 6 bowls no matter what their record is unlike what was previously thought.


"COLUMBIA, Mo. • The new College Football Playoff is not the only change to this year’s postseason, especially for teams in the SEC. The conference has revamped its bowl structure from top to bottom. The league currently has eight bowl-eligible teams for its 10 guaranteed bowl spots — with another five five-win teams still capable of reaching the six-win minimum for postseason play. The SEC has one guaranteed spot in the College Football Playoff plus nine bowl games: Citrus, Outback, Belk, Liberty, Music City, Texas, Taxslayer, Birmingham and Independence.
After the CFP selection committee chooses its bowl participants, the Citrus has first choice among remaining bowl-eligible SEC teams. Then comes the big change in the SEC: the Pool of Six.
The SEC league office will decide its SEC participants for its next six bowls: Outback, Belk, Liberty, Music City, Texas and Taxslayer. There is no pecking order within these six and no significant differences between payouts, SEC executive associate commissioner Mark Womack said.
“We’ll certainly have discussions with the bowls on which teams they have interest in,” Womack said. “We’ll certainly have discussions with our institutions about which bowls they would have an interest in. But at the end of the day, the conference will make the decision as to how those teams would be placed in those six bowls.”
SEC Commissioner Mike Slive and his staff will make the decisions about which bowls those six teams will play in, Womack said. The league will work to avoid regular-season rematches and rematches from recent bowl games and factor in proximity when deciding who plays where.


After the Pool of Six, the Birmingham Bowl picks among remaining eligible SEC teams, followed by the Independence Bowl.
If the SEC champion is not selected for the CFP semifinal bowls in the four-team playoff, it’s guaranteed a spot in either the Cotton, Fiesta or Peach. Those three, along with the Orange, make up the rest of the CFP playoff rotation, but they are not hosting the semifinals this year."

 

[TheDouglas78]

https://www.stltoday.com/sports/col...cle_51e9a0b9-6373-5747-bd64-690822d16117.html

Not sure I like these changes with the SEC mostly controlling where teams go. The SEC champion is guaranteed a spot in one of those 6 bowls no matter what their record is unlike what was previously thought.


"COLUMBIA, Mo. • The new College Football Playoff is not the only change to this year’s postseason, especially for teams in the SEC. The conference has revamped its bowl structure from top to bottom. The league currently has eight bowl-eligible teams for its 10 guaranteed bowl spots — with another five five-win teams still capable of reaching the six-win minimum for postseason play. The SEC has one guaranteed spot in the College Football Playoff plus nine bowl games: Citrus, Outback, Belk, Liberty, Music City, Texas, Taxslayer, Birmingham and Independence.
After the CFP selection committee chooses its bowl participants, the Citrus has first choice among remaining bowl-eligible SEC teams. Then comes the big change in the SEC: the Pool of Six.
The SEC league office will decide its SEC participants for its next six bowls: Outback, Belk, Liberty, Music City, Texas and Taxslayer. There is no pecking order within these six and no significant differences between payouts, SEC executive associate commissioner Mark Womack said.
“We’ll certainly have discussions with the bowls on which teams they have interest in,” Womack said. “We’ll certainly have discussions with our institutions about which bowls they would have an interest in. But at the end of the day, the conference will make the decision as to how those teams would be placed in those six bowls.”
SEC Commissioner Mike Slive and his staff will make the decisions about which bowls those six teams will play in, Womack said. The league will work to avoid regular-season rematches and rematches from recent bowl games and factor in proximity when deciding who plays where.


After the Pool of Six, the Birmingham Bowl picks among remaining eligible SEC teams, followed by the Independence Bowl.
If the SEC champion is not selected for the CFP semifinal bowls in the four-team playoff, it’s guaranteed a spot in either the Cotton, Fiesta or Peach. Those three, along with the Orange, make up the rest of the CFP playoff rotation, but they are not hosting the semifinals this year."

To me this sounds like a potential deserving team will get a lesser bowl because the SEC commissioners office makes it so. No bueno.

 

[MidwestChomp]

Birmingham and Shreveport getting the shaft.

Also this from the college playoff:
"Both participants in the Orange, Rose and Sugar Bowls are contracted outside the playoff arrange­ment (Big Ten and Pac-12 to Rose Bowl; SEC and Big 12 to Sugar Bowl; ACC to Orange Bowl against the highest ranked available team from the SEC, Big Ten and Notre Dame). If a conference champion qualifies for the playoff, then the bowl will choose a replacement from that conference. When those bowls host the semifinals and their contracted conference champions do not qualify, then the dis­placed champion(s) will play in the other New Year’s bowls.
The Fiesta, Cotton and Peach Bowls will host displaced conference champions and the top-ranked champion from a non-contract conference. The highest-ranked available teams will fill any other berths. The Selection Committee will make the pairings."

Is anyone else confused?

 

[Gator Fever]

Birmingham and Shreveport getting the shaft.

Also this from the college playoff:
"Both participants in the Orange, Rose and Sugar Bowls are contracted outside the playoff arrange*ment (Big Ten and Pac-12 to Rose Bowl; SEC and Big 12 to Sugar Bowl; ACC to Orange Bowl against the highest ranked available team from the SEC, Big Ten and Notre Dame). If a conference champion qualifies for the playoff, then the bowl will choose a replacement from that conference. When those bowls host the semifinals and their contracted conference champions do not qualify, then the dis*placed champion(s) will play in the other New Year’s bowls.
The Fiesta, Cotton and Peach Bowls will host displaced conference champions and the top-ranked champion from a non-contract conference. The highest-ranked available teams will fill any other berths. The Selection Committee will make the pairings."

Is anyone else confused?

Does that mean in some of the big bowls the bowl can say they want a certain SEC etc. team despite the football playoff rankings. I am guessing it does so that is kind of like the old way still I guess but after that the SEC gets all the control it sounds like.