Just mentioned it on sportscenter, said nothing else. thoughts on this? hell, just add 2 more and let those be the 7 games in a 8 team playoff.
no link. sportscenter was ending and trey wingo said it right at the end. they didn't say anything more than saying they were adding a 5th game. i could be wrong, but i think he said they are adding, not they are thinking about adding. i wonder what the 5th bowl would be? cotton i wouldn't think would get it. outback bowl? holiday bowl for the great san diego weather?
Looking at where the other 4 games are currently being played and the factors the BCS Committee looks for in a host city, I honestly think that Houston will be a major player when it comes to the BCS Bowl bids. Remember that the old management of the Bowl handed ownership of the Houston Bowl game to the same folks that just ran the biggest sporting event for football, Superbowl 38. If that is not enough for the resume, then just look to the fact that we got all the other ingredients. Bowl also has contracts with the two best conferences in the SEC & BIG 12. Houston, Texas being the host of a BCS game as early as 2006, it is a possibility.
i thought I remember reading something about that a while back. that houston would be pushing to get a bcs bowl.. ... I dont know if the fact that there isn't a ny history behind our bowl will hurt us or not.. we'd definitely have the best stadium of anyone wanting a bowl
Who cares? None of the BCS bowls other than the MNC mean much. So one more doesn't make a difference. The only thing that matters is playoffs or no playoffs.
ESPN.com article Associated Press MIAMI BEACH, Fla. -- The Bowl Championship Series agreed to add a fifth game Sunday, increasing access for schools not part of college football's most lucrative postseason system. The champions of the six BCS conferences -- the Big East, ACC, SEC, Big 12, Big Ten and Pac-10 -- will maintain an automatic berth in one of the five games. The remaining four spots will be at-large berths to be decided by a complex formula using national rankings. The fifth bowl is still subject to final approval based on market viability, but all indications point to it being in place when the new BCS contract takes effect before the 2007 season. Oregon president Dave Frohnmayer, a member of the BCS Presidential Oversight Committee, said existing bowls probably will have the first shot at becoming the fifth BCS bowl. "We are envisioning a bowl of equal stature in terms of its command of television audiences and its desirability from a standpoint of teams," Frohnmayer said. "Whether that would come from the volunteering of an existing bowl system and its own structure or the creation of a new bowl, that's something we simply can't determine at this point." The current four BCS bowls are the Rose, Sugar, Fiesta and Orange. One of those bowls pits the top two teams in the BCS standings in a championship game, which will be the Orange Bowl next season. The Rose, Fiesta and Sugar host the other games. Smaller schools complain that the BCS makes it impossible for them to win the national championship and puts them at a financial and recruiting disadvantage. The BCS bowls generate more than $110 million a year for the big conferences. The BCS gives about $6 million a year to smaller conferences. Frohnmayer said those figures will increase under the new format. This decision came after a six-hour meeting, the third between the BCS Presidential Oversight Committee and the Coalition for Athletics Reform, which has been fighting to change the current system. Negotiations with the bowls and TV networks begin soon, starting almost immediately with next year's Rose Bowl, putting some sense of urgency to the talks.
BCS games tend to be in pleasant, warm weather locations. I assume that the Holiday is already the frontrunner. It's in San Diego, and they'll be playing in a new stadium soon. Cotton Bowl may be a possible site because of its history, but Dallas isn't a very desirable spot on New Year's Day because of the weather. You can also expect the Peach Bowl in Atlanta to make a push as well. Houston might be in the hunt too.
Easiest way to do this is to have some sort of contingency plan in place in case of a situation like we had this year. If there is a split National Champion, there should be a one-game finale to decide the ultimate winner.
I agree but from reading the article, it doesn't sound like that is what this 5th game is going to be used for. Instead it is a game that will be one for whoever gets ranked #7 and #8 in the final regular season BCS poll. If that is what it is, then I think it is a joke; if it is not going to be used for that, then it is a good thing.
It will just be another game to add the 7th and 8th BCS ranked teams to the mix. It is a necessary expansion to keep the Feds and the courts from pursuing the matter of small schools being left out of the BCS mix (since a non-BCS Conference team has to go undefeated to even have a small chance at a BCS Bowl, while a team in a BCS Conference could lose four or five games and still get a BCS bid). There was quite a bit of pressure this year to make it easier for non-BCS conferences to get in on the lucrative BCS Bowls. This is an effort to head off the courts or the Congress doing something to that end.
How does the watered down Big East, with no teams ranked in the top 25 last season, get to keep their autobid? That's garbage.
I agree and hope it doesn't delay a playoff. I would guess Florida would be a big player too along with San Diego (Holiday) and Dallas (Cotton). I think after the 4 BCS the SEC#2/Big Ten #2 game there (Blockbuster/ex Citris?) puts up the most bucks. I guess the Peach (Atl) or Gato (Jville) could be players as well, but they historically have put up a lot less money.
Peach Bowl is the likely 5th BCS game, according to my sources. As for the BCS adding an extra championship game at the end of the whole shebang, we can only hope.
Yeah that worries me that a Maryland or West Virginia seems to be primed to get an automatic bid. Without VT and Miami no way should the Big East get an automatic bid.
Adding a 5th BCS game will also allow the rich to get richer. With the 4 autobids, some of the power conferences like the Big12, SEC, Big10/11 and ACC will have two teams playing, and perhaps three in a really good year for that conference. It's going to be tough for the non-BCS teams to get in even with the increased access. How much more deserving is the Big East of an autobid over the Mtn West or MAC? If West Virginia runs the table against the likes of Rutgers, UConn, Cincinnati, South FL, etc, would that be BCS worthy? Whichever bowl has the BE champ will definitely feel shortchanged.
The Terps are ACC. But your point about the Big East still stands. If they're good enough, why not CUSA or the WAC?
