because it was announced like 6 months ago

It's not going to go by rankings per se. The committee will choose not only 1-4 but also the other 8 teams that go to the Access Bowls. They will set the matchups (and you can bet location will play a role because the idea is to create interesting games). In some cases, the bowls tied into the Big 5 conferences ahead of time (why the Sugar, Rose, and Orange were already set) but the rest are all at-large.

I believe one of the at-large spots is guaranteed to be from a non-Big 5 conference but otherwise there are no limits on max or min numbers per conference. Theoretically we could have had 6 last year.

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Posted by tmc94

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Posted on 4/23/13 at 10:22 pm to tmc94

Example, using last year and assuming the BCS rankings were the way schools are chosen. Using your example of Peach/Fiesta (though the first year will be Rose/Sugar as that has already been decided).

Fiesta - #1 ND vs #4 Oregon
Peach - #2 Bama vs #3 Florida

Sugar (SEC/Big12) - #7 Georgia vs #5 K-State
Rose (B1G/PAC)- NR Wisconsin vs #6 Stanford
Orange (ACC/SEC or B1G) - #12 FSU vs #8 LSU
Cotton (at-large vs non-bcs at-large) - #9 Texas A&M vs #15 Northern Illinois

The at-larges are required to include the conference champs of each of the Big 5 plus at least one school from the little conferences provided any are not selected to the semis. Thus when the Rose or Sugar or Orange host semis, their normal selections are thrown into the at-large group.

Edit: my guess is the selection committee would place Oregon 3rd just to avoid SEC conference foes in the semis

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