SB Nation’s Team Speed Kills takes a stab at projecting what the postseason bowl matchups would look like if Week 10’s BCS rankings decided the bids:
BCS Rankings: If College Football Ended Now, Who Would Go Bowling?
BCS National Championship Game: Auburn vs. Oregon
Rose Bowl: Wisconsin vs. TCU
Sugar Bowl: Oklahoma vs. Alabama
Fiesta Bowl: Pittsburgh vs. Nebraska
Orange Bowl: Virginia Tech vs. Ohio State
First of all, all the conference champions are decided based on who is the highest-ranked team in that conference right now. That could change. I chose Pittsburgh because they have the most wins in the Big East, a conference that still has no ranked teams. (Again, for those who just like making fun of the Big East, it has two fewer ranked teams than the WAC or the Mountain West.) The Rose Bowl has to take a non-AQ team that wins an automatic berth, and I tried to don the colored blazers of the other bowls and select the teams they would based on the order under the BCS rules. All the match-ups have something going for them -- except the Fiesta Bowl, natch.
Anybody take issue with the exclusion of Boise State? What’s going to happen to Utah? Might LSU still sneak in somewhere thanks to freak late-season losses on the part of Auburn or Alabama? Join the discussion at Team Speed Kills.
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