We looked at members of the ACC, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC because those schools are eligible for an automatic qualification to a Bowl Championship Series bowl game (Fiesta, Orange, Rose, and Sugar Bowls).
The Orange Bowl, Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl already had been selected.
Three semifinal spots have already been decided: the Rose, Orange and Sugar bowls.
The current discussion with 4 teams is to use 2 of the 4 marquee bowls (Rose, Orange, Sugar, Fiesta) as national semi-finals, and then farm the championship game out to the highest bidder.
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Note: ESPN had previously secured the rights to the Rose, Sugar and Orange Bowl games for the same 12-year period (through January 2026).
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The network televises all five games from the current format, including the Rose, Sugar, Orange and Fiesta Bowls, as well as the BCS National Championship Game.
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Combined with previous deals to broadcast the Rose, Sugar and Orange bowls, Wednesday's agreement could give ESPN the rights to all the games involved in the new postseason arrangement, according to a news release.
Combined with previous deals for the Rose, Sugar and Orange Bowls, the arrangement would provide ESPN with rights to all games that are involved in the new post-season arrangement to determine a college football national champion.
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Or have an 8-team playoff where the Rose, Sugar, Orange, and Fiesta Bowls are annual quarterfinal sites, and then use Qualcomm, Cowboy Stadium, and the Cotton Bowl as warm weather venues to contest the semis and finals.
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The current BCS postseason is broadcast on ESPN and consists of a championship game and four other bowls: the Rose, Fiesta, Sugar and Orange.
It gave me a whiff of a reminder of snowball fights as a kid in Stoke Lodge park in Bristol followed by a game of football played with an orange Frido ball that got punctured in the rose bushes but then repaired by Dad smearing a hot knife over the plastic.
Rodriguez se sert de couleurs vives, principalement le rose-rouge, le vert et le jaune-orange.
The national quarter-finals would occur at the Rose Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Fiesta Bowl, and Orange Bowl.
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The ACC will send either Florida State or Georgia Tech to the Orange Bowl, the Big Ten will have Nebraska or Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl and the Big 12 will be represented in the Fiesta Bowl by Kansas State or Oklahoma depending on how their games play out this weekend.
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This is because participants in the other BCS bowl games (the Rose Bowl, the Fiesta Bowl, the Sugar Bowl and the Orange Bowl) all receive the same payout as that given to BCS National Championship game participants.
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