From: don.p.del.grande@gmail.com   
      
   > > 4. This leaves the Fiesta, Cotton, and Peach. The six teams are chosen   
   pretty much in this order:    
   > > (1) The four Power Five champions (besides the ACC) that are not in the   
   playoff   
   > Washington, Texas (highest ranked P12 and B12 teams)   
   > > (2) The highest ranked Group of 5 champion, if it is not in the playoff   
   (if it is, no Group of 5 team is automatically chosen to replace it in this   
   group)   
   > Tulane at 17.   
   > > (3) The highest ranked teams not already assigned to a bowl, regardless of   
   conference   
   > Oregon at 6, Oregon State at 10, Penn State at 12.    
      
   This would make the pairings easy:   
   Cotton - Texas vs Washington   
   Peach - Oregon vs Penn State   
   Fiesta - Oregon State vs Tulane   
   Of course, the I'm Still Calling It The Civil War, Live With It loser is going   
   to drop, as well as the Pac-12 championship game loser.   
      
   Going off-topic for a bit: the big loser in the ACC realignment could end up   
   being UC-Davis, as the only two other teams in the America East's field hockey   
   conference west of the Mississippi (Cal and Stanford) are now moving to the   
   ACC, so how are the    
   other schools going to justify the cost of going across the country for just   
   one game? This is why they need to regionalize the conferences for sports   
   besides football and basketball (and maybe women's volleyball, but even then,   
   the power already seems    
   to be fairly regional there).   
      
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