12-07-2014, 03:14 PM
(12-07-2014, 03:07 PM)stupac2 link Wrote:[quote author=leftcoast link=topic=11295.msg107700#msg107700 date=1417987778]I don't understand your ACC point, Boston Card. The highest ranked ACC team (Florida St at #3) IS in the playoff, correct?
Right, the Orange Bowl gets the highest-ranked ACC team that's available. So when an ACC team goes to the playoff the Orange gets the #2. Every conference has at least one of those tie-ins.
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Similarly, the Rose Bowl gets the highest ranked Big 10 and Pac 12 teams in years in which it is not a semifinal game. If that were the case this year, the Rose Bowl matchup would be Arizona and Michigan State. Would have been Arizona's first ever Rose Bowl.
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