KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. The first semifinal games in the new college football playoff system will be played in the Rose Bowl and the Sugar Bowl on Jan. 1, 2015.
The BCS conference commissioners announced the dates and rotation for all 12 years of the upcoming postseason format after a meeting in Key Biscayne on Monday, the day after the BCS championship game in Miami.
"It was not a one-year decision, it had to be a 12-year decision," BCS executive director Bill Hancock said. "Calendar issues, days of rest. Sugar and Rose were paired together because of the days of rest since they are playing the same day."
Whether they are hosting a semifinal or just a marquee bowl game, the Rose Bowl and the Sugar Bowl will always be played on Jan. 1, or Jan. 2 in years in which New Year's Day falls on a Sunday. In the eight years in which the Rose and Sugar do not host the semifinals, the four playoff teams will kick off on New Year's Eve or Saturday, Dec. 30.
Either way there will be a triple-header of major college football games, two semifinals and four other marquee bowl games, on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day starting from the 2014 season to the 2025 season.

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"Either way there will be a triple-header of major college football games, two semifinals and four other marquee bowl games, on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day starting from the 2014 season to the 2025 season."

Now that will actually be legitimate semifinal games, will anyone really give a flip about the other "marquee" games?

Wouldn't you and me if Carolina was in one of them?

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--- bartholemew wrote:

"Either way there will be a triple-header of major college football games, two semifinals and four other marquee bowl games, on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day starting from the 2014 season to the 2025 season."

Now that will actually be legitimate semifinal games, will anyone really give a flip about the other "marquee" games?

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Sure, but participating teams' fanbases being the only ones interested aren't exact going to provide the ratings numbers to warrant a "marquee" status.

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--- spacemt1 wrote:

Wouldn't you and me if Carolina was in one of them?

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--- bartholemew wrote:

"Either way there will be a triple-header of major college football games, two semifinals and four other marquee bowl games, on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day starting from the 2014 season to the 2025 season."

Now that will actually be legitimate semifinal games, will anyone really give a flip about the other "marquee" games?

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supposedly the Cotton Bowl will be the site of the championship game which will be held here in Arlington/Dallas @ Jerry's World a.k.a Cowboys Stadium

I use to work in Radio, but I no longer care about ratings and unless someone works in Radio or TV, we as fans shouldn't either. I care about College Football more than any other Sport, (with Hockey a close 2nd), but the Bowls are about the Players, Coaches, and Fans, screw the ratings!!!!

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--- bartholemew wrote:

Sure, but participating teams' fanbases being the only ones interested aren't exact going to provide the ratings numbers to warrant a "marquee" status.

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--- spacemt1 wrote:

Wouldn't you and me if Carolina was in one of them?

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--- bartholemew wrote:

"Either way there will be a triple-header of major college football games, two semifinals and four other marquee bowl games, on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day starting from the 2014 season to the 2025 season."

Now that will actually be legitimate semifinal games, will anyone really give a flip about the other "marquee" games?

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--- NCU77 wrote:

supposedly the Cotton Bowl will be the site of the championship game which will be held here in Arlington/Dallas @ Jerry's World a.k.a Cowboys Stadium

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Interesting. The Cotton Bowl went from being one of the 4 major bowls - along with Sugar, Orange, and Rose - to second tier status while the Cool Ranch/Nacho Cheese Doritos Fiesta Bowl usurped their status, and now they've jumped all the way back to hosting the title game. Politics, anyone?

interesting that the thresd title refers to the "NCAA" playoffs...

the larger schools (Div. 1A), are all about keeping control of the $ generated by college football...

the NCAA offered long ago to run a playoff, as they have done for years for the lower divisions...

when the larger schools surrendered control of the b-ball tournament to the NCAA they lost control of deciding how the revenue would be distributed, much to their chagrin...

the bowls and the BCS (and the CFA of a few years ago), are/were all about keeping control of the football money in the hands of the larger schools...

if the NCAA is involved, it is only peripherally, or there has been some dramatic change in college football that I missed...