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GO4ROZS

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I know this topic has been discussed ad nauseum, but maybe somebody can remind me. If Boise State makes the NC game, does that satisfy the new Rose Bowl requirement to take an eligible non-BCS team? In other words, they wouldn't have to take a 5th ranked TCU team in that scenerio, would they?

I know, any college football fan worth his salt would know this rule, yadda, yadda, yadda. ;)
 




I believe the Rose Bowl only has to take a non qualifier if the Pac 10 or Bigten champ is in the NC game. If neither are the it will be a BigTen/Pac10 match up
 


CRhawkeye4life said:
I believe the Rose Bowl only has to take a non qualifier if the Pac 10 or Bigten champ is in the NC game. If neither are the it will be a BigTen/Pac10 match up
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I should have included that if it was Oregon vs Boise in the NC game. In that case, the Rose would have to replace Oregon.
 


GO4ROZS said:
I know this topic has been discussed ad nauseum, but maybe somebody can remind me. If Boise State makes the NC game, does that satisfy the new Rose Bowl requirement to take an eligible non-BCS team? In other words, they wouldn't have to take a 5th ranked TCU team in that scenerio, would they?

I know, any college football fan worth his salt would know this rule, yadda, yadda, yadda. ;)
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If the NCG is either, say, Boise vs Oregon or Boise vs Michigan State, then I think the Rose Bowl would still have to take TCU/Utah to replace the conference champ they lost to the NCG.

However, if it's Boise vs Oklahoma or Auburn or something, then they would get their two conference champions back, and wouldn't have to pick up Boise or anything.

If Iowa wins out, we're headed to the Rose Bowl. We'll be conference champs, and nobody else from our conference will be headed to the NCG ahead of us. We could end up playing for the national title (highly unlikely but for the sake of the topic, let's pretend stuff goes incredibly right), in which case you may not see a Big Ten team in the Rose Bowl.

What I want to know is, what happens if the NCG ends up being MSU vs Oregon?
 


edr247 said:
What I want to know is, what happens if the NCG ends up being MSU vs Oregon?
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In that case, I believe it would likely be Boise/TCU vs another at large, probably from the Big 10.

I guess I'm going to root for the Pac 10 champ to not be in the NC game as I'd much rather see us against the Pac 10 champ than Boise. Not that I don't think we could beat them, it just wouldn't be as appealing to me. That being said, I'll take anyone if it means I'll be in Pasadena on Jan 1 ;)
 


I think the Rose would love to take Utah (should they beat TCU) vs the Big Ten Champ in that scenario.
 


-No more than one such team from the non-AQ group shall earn an automatic berth in any year.

-For the games in January 2011 through 2014, the first year the Rose Bowl loses a team to the NCG and a team from the non-AQ group is an automatic qualifier, that non-AQ team will play in the Rose Bowl.
 




Would be interesting to see who they pick then assuming a title game of Oregon/Boise. Probably Stanford if they win out. To face Iowa, hopefully. :)
 


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