Nine Southeastern Conference football teams learned their
post-season bowl destinations on Sunday, including No. 3-ranked Georgia which
will play No. 2 Oklahoma in the Rose Bowl while No. 4-ranked Alabama will face
No. 1 Clemson in the Sugar Bowl on January 1 in semifinal games for the College
Football Playoff.
It marks the first time one conference has placed two teams
in the CFP semifinals in the same season.
On Sunday, the College Football Playoff committee first
selected teams for the national semifinal games, the Rose Bowl Game presented
by Northwestern Mutual and the Allstate Sugar Bowl. The committee later
announced the participants in the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl, Capital One Orange
Bowl, Goodyear Cotton Bowl and the PlayStation Fiesta Bowl.
In addition to Georgia and Alabama in the CFP semifinals,
Auburn was selected to play in a CFP New Year’s Six Game, meeting UCF in the
Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl on January 1.
Next, the Citrus Bowl presented by Overton selected LSU from
the SEC to play Notre Dame.
This marks the fourth year the conference assigned league
schools to an “SEC Bowl Pool” that includes the Belk Bowl in Charlotte, the
Academy Sports & Outdoors Texas Bowl in Houston, the TaxSlayer Bowl in
Jacksonville, the AutoZone Liberty Bowl in Memphis, the Franklin American
Mortgage Music City Bowl in Nashville and the Outback Bowl in Tampa.
Missouri will play a Big 12
opponent in the AdvoCare V100 Texas Bowl, Texas A&M will play an ACC
opponent in the Belk Bowl, Kentucky will play a Big Ten opponent in the
Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl, Mississippi State will play an ACC
opponent in the TaxSlayer Bowl and South Carolina will play a Big Ten opponent
in the Outback Bowl.
Because three SEC teams were
selected for New Year’s Six Games, and by agreement in the SEC Bowl Pool
structure, a team from the SEC was not available to participate in the Liberty
Bowl for this season.
The selection process for the SEC Bowl Pool was based on
preferences expressed by the SEC’s bowl eligible schools, input from the SEC’s
affiliated bowls, travel considerations, attention to previous matchups and
additional relevant factors.
“The SEC Bowl Pool participants are determined after
conversations with bowl partners and discussions with school personnel in order
to create a lineup of compelling bowl games for our schools and their fans,”
said SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey. “This process provides an opportunity to
create intriguing matchups and varying assignments to help prevent repetitive
postseason destinations.”
COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFF BOWLS
Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl (Atlanta) – Auburn vs. UCF – Jan. 1 –
12:30 pm ET / 11:30 am CT – ESPN
Rose Bowl Game presented by Northwestern Mutual – Georgia
vs. Oklahoma – Jan. 1 – 5 pm ET / 4 pm CT - ESPN
Allstate Sugar Bowl (New Orleans) – Alabama vs. Clemson –
Jan. 1 – 8:45 pm ET / 7:45 pm CT – ESPN
SEC-AFFILIATED BOWLS:
Citrus Bowl presented by Overton (Orlando) – LSU vs. Notre
Dame – Jan. 1 – 1 pm ET / Noon CT – ABC
SEC Bowl Pool:
Academy Sports & Outdoors Texas Bowl (Houston) –
Missouri vs. Big 12 – Dec. 27 – 9 pm ET / 8 pm CT – ESPN
Belk Bowl (Charlotte) – Texas A&M vs. ACC – Dec. 29 – 1
pm ET / Noon CT – ESPN
Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl (Nashville) –
Kentucky vs. Big Ten - Dec. 29 – 4:30 pm ET / 3:30 pm CT – ESPN
TaxSlayer Bowl (Jacksonville) – Mississippi State vs. ACC –
Dec. 30 – Noon ET / 11 am CT – ESPN
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