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Originally Posted by LordJeffBuck
One other thing to consider.... Regardless of which two teams make the BCS championship game, we might have a split national championship as in 2003, especially if the season ends with four once-beaten teams. Let's say that Missouri and LSU win out in uninspiring fashion and play in the BCS title game, narrowly edging out Ohio State and West Virginia, who match up in the Rose Bowl. If the title game is a boring, sloppy, low-scoring affair, and if either OSU or WVU wins in an impressive rout, then the AP might just crown the Rose Bowl winner as their national champ.
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Actually, my mistake here.... I thought that with the expansion to a fifth BCS bowl, that the automatic bids requirments had been loosened, but apparently that is not the case (the Big East champ does not have a bowl "tie-in"). The Rose Bowl is still stuck taking the Big Ten-Pac Ten champs, unless one or both of them make it to the BCS title game. So, Ohio State will play the Pac 10 champ in the 2008 Rose Bowl unless the Buckeyes can "back into" the title game.
All the more reason to have a playoff, I guess....
Here's the 2007-2008 bowl schedule, for those who are interested:
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