Bowl Championship Series Selection
Pool Update
BCS Press Release
11/29/05
Fifteen teams remain under consideration to participate in the
four games that comprise the Bowl Championship Series (BCS),
it was announced today.
The teams were identified during a second teleconference in as
many weeks among the 11 I-A conference commissioners, the Notre
Dame athletics director, and representatives from ABC Television,
the FedEx
Orange Bowl, Nokia Sugar Bowl, Tostitos Fiesta Bowl, and Rose
Bowl. The Rose Bowl will host the national championship game,
matching the No. 1 and 2 teams in the final BCS standings.
The champions of the Atlantic Coast, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12,
Pac-10 and Southeastern Conferences automatically qualify for
a BCS game. In addition, there are two at-large berths available.
To be eligible
for at-large selection, a team must have nine regular-season
victories and be ranked in the top 12 of the final BCS standings
on December 4. Any Division I-A independent institution or team
from Conference
USA, the Mid-American, Mountain West, Sun Belt or Western Athletic
Conference earns a guaranteed slot in one of the BCS games should
that team be ranked sixth or better in the final BCS Standings.
Penn State has clinched a berth in the BCS. The Nittany Lions
are co-champions of the Big Ten with Ohio State, but possesses
the tie-breaker by having defeated the Buckeyes. USC will be
the Pac-10
representative in the BCS. The Trojans are at least the league’s
co-champion and hold the conference tiebreaker should it need
to be applied. West Virginia will represent the Big East having
clinched the
conference title following last week’s results.
The representatives from the three other participating conferences
which receive automatic spots in the BCS have not been determined.
The following is a list of teams still contending for their conference’s
automatic berth:
ACC: Florida State, Virginia Tech
Big 12: Colorado, Texas
SEC: Georgia, LSU
The pool of teams remaining under consideration for the two at-large
berths consists of those six teams, plus six others that were
also identified: Auburn, Miami, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oregon,
UCLA
All other institutions have been released from BCS consideration.
Following is the schedule of the BCS games (all televised by
ABC Sports):
January 2 – Tostitos Fiesta Bowl, 4:30 p.m., ET
January 2 – Nokia Sugar Bowl, 8:30 p.m., ET
January 3 – FedEx Orange Bowl, 8 p.m., ET
January 4 – Rose Bowl (national championship game), 8 p.m.
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