SEC Big XII game question

[CagerMania]

What does this do to the sugar bowl? Assuming the 4 team playoff doesn't include existing bowls, the SEC would have to convert the Sugar into the host for this new game. Right? Is there a scenario where the Sugar becomes the #3 choice for the SEC (after the playoffs and this new bowl)?

Or, is this an indication that Slive believes the Sugar will be part of the playoff (I don't think the selection of sites has been announced yet)?

I'm trying to imagine a world where the champ goes to some playoff site, the runner up to this new bowl (probably in Dallas) and then some scrub goes to Sugar. At least we might finally have a chance of one day playing in the sugar.

 

[QuaoarsKing]

So the Sugar would probably end up with the #3 or #4 SEC team.<div>
</div><div>I think this is going to start a trend. Most teams lose money going to the games, and often it's passed onto the taxpayers (Connecticut taxpayers ate over $2 million when UCONN went to the Fiesta Bowl), because the bowls are run by organizations with a bunch of 6- and 7-figure salary executives who make schools buy thousands of tickets and then resell them themselves.</div><div>
If the conferences just started running bowl games themselves, they could set fairer rules and keep all the profits. In 20 years, I imagine the Rose Bowl will be the only traditional bowl still around. There will still be a major bowl game in New Orleans on Jan. 1 featuring an SEC team surely, but it may or not be called the Sugar Bowl (depends on legal stuff), and the SEC and whoever else will keep all of the profits.</div>

 

[00Dawg]

it would have much of an impact at all in and of itself, since it's an announcement of a new match-up, not necessarily a new bowl. It's kind of a backstop for whatever fallout we get from the 4-team playoff system. If there was a year where the Big 12 and SEC champion didn't make the playoff, I suppose we would then be contractually meeting in the Sugar Bowl if it isn't hosting a playoff game. Just too many what-if's at this point to really see anything meaningful in it.