No. 1 will play No. 4, and No. 2 will play No. 3 on Dec. 31 and/or
Jan. 1. The sites of those games will rotate among the four current BCS
bowls - Rose, Orange, Fiesta and Sugar - and two more to be determined.
One of the new sites will likely be wherever the newly formed bowl
created by the SEC and Big 12 is played, Slive said.
The Cotton Bowl, played at the $1.1 billion Cowboys Stadium in
Arlington, Texas, has long wanted to be part of the BCS and is expected
to make a strong push to be in the semifinal rotation.
The winners of the semis will advance to the championship on the
first Monday in January that is six or more days after the last
semifinal. The first ''Championship Monday,'' as it was called in the
BCS release, is set for Jan. 12, 2015.
The site of the title game will move around the way the Super Bowl does, with cities bidding for the right to host.
The teams will be selected by a committee, similar to the way the
NCAA basketball tournament field is set. The men's tournament has 68
teams, and 37 at-large bids.
The football committee will have a much tougher task, trying to
whittle the field down to four. This season, 125 schools will play at
the highest level of college football.
Among the factors the committee will consider are won-loss record,
strength of schedule, head-to-head results and whether a team is a
conference champion. The selection committee will also play a part in
creating matchups for the games at the four sites that do not hold a
semifinal in a given year.
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