http://tracking.si.com/2013/07/23/colleg...t=uk_t2_a7

I like it. Simple.

I still wonder about all of the other glut of New Year's Day games though with such a huge push for the New Year's Six. They used to spread the BCS games all over the place to make elite windows...and now it seems like all of the elite windows for two days straight will be taken by the 6 major bowls.

SIAP. What do you guys think?

Thankfully the Chick-fil-A Bowl will include Peach in its name again. It seems so out of place in that lineup being referred to by a cooperate sponsor.

Cotton Bowl (Arlington, TX)
Fiesta Bowl (Glendale, AZ)
Orange Bowl (Miami, FL)
Peach Bowl (Atlanta, GA)
Rose Bowl (Pasadena, CA)
Sugar Bowl (New Orleans, LA)

Fits in much more nicely like that.

To get to your question... I hope that most of the bowls are completed by Dec. 30. The 31st can be reserved for the bigger non-playoff bowls.

Dec. 31
Alamo Bowl (XII vs. PAC)
Capital One (ACC/B1G/SEC)
Gator Bowl (ACC/B1G/SEC)
Holiday Bowl (B1G vs. PAC)
Russell Athletic Bowl (ACC vs. XII)
Outback Bowl (B1G vs. SEC)

If they expand to an 8 team playoff I'd imagine that there will be to more CFP bowls.

Most likely it will be the Holiday Bowl and Capital One added to the lineup for another bowl West and East.

(07-24-2013 04:25 PM)OrangeCrush22 Wrote:  Thankfully the Chick-fil-A Bowl will include Peach in its name again. It seems so out of place in that lineup being referred to by a cooperate sponsor.

Cotton Bowl (Arlington, TX)
Fiesta Bowl (Glendale, AZ)
Orange Bowl (Miami, FL)
Peach Bowl (Atlanta, GA)
Rose Bowl (Pasadena, CA)
Sugar Bowl (New Orleans, LA)

Fits in much more nicely like that.

To get to your question... I hope that most of the bowls are completed by Dec. 30. The 31st can be reserved for the bigger non-playoff bowls.

Dec. 31st is reserved for three of the "Six" bowls and the other three are on Jan. 1.

One of those "other" bowls will be on each of Dec. 29/30, I'm sure, but no doubt some will be played between Jan. 1 and the title game, unless the conferences tell the bowls that they refuse to play on those dates.

I'd rather the other good bowls (Capital One, Holiday, Alamo, Gator, etc.) be put in a primetime time slot on ESPN...than buried behind the elite games on Dec31/Jan1. I know that's exactly what they are trying to get away from...as the stretch of BCS bowls on Jan 2, 3, 4, 5...just wasn't very popular.

But there were two factors in that: 1--the BCS bowls were often poor match-ups and didn't deserve the hype/limelight. 2--those BCS bowls were EXPECTED to be huge games and highly entertaining. Instead, we've had Kansas/Iowa and Michigan/VaTech and Cincinnati/Florida.

The lesser bowls would be for us--CFB diehards. We'd enjoy the games as snacks to tide us over until the NC game...but no one would expect them to be primetime extravaganzas.

the New Years Six will not preclude any of the other bowls from playing on either Dec. 31 or Jan. 1. The Capital One, Outback, Gator, etc. will almost assuredly keep whatever spots they currently occupy.


I'm curious to see how the Fiesta Bowl will work as the early game on Jan. 1 in 2016. 11 AM local time football, I guess.

6 games in one day is way too much. At roughly 4 hours per game you only have ~12 hours to show the games (noon-midnight). I can't/wont sit and watch football for 12 straight hours so I will have to pick and choose which games to watch. The best thing for college football is to spread the big bowls out so they don't compete with each other for viewers.