GAINESVILLE — The University of Florida’s probable Capital One Bowl bid will have to wait until Sunday.
The Bowl Championship Series released all but 16 teams Tuesday, and the Gators made the list of finalists, but they would need a highly improbable series of events to take place to reach a BCS game. Each conference can take a maximum of two teams. As SEC champ, the winner of the Tennessee-LSU game is guaranteed one spot.
And unless something wacky happens, Georgia is guaranteed the other. BCS rules call for a team ranked No. 3 in the BCS standings that isn’t a conference champ to automatically receive an at-large bid. If No. 3 is a conference champ, then No. 4 can get an automatic bid if it isn’t a conference champ. Georgia is No. 4 this week and probably would move up to No. 3 if No. 1 Missouri loses to Oklahoma.
So the Gators’ only shot is if the voters do something crazy and leap someone over the Dawgs, driving Georgia down to No. 5. Then, the Orange Bowl would have the chance to stiff the more deserving Bulldogs and take the automatic sellout the Gators would bring.
Here are the 16 teams still under consideration for the BCS:
Conference champs already qualified: Ohio State, West Virginia
Could earn automatic bid by winning conference this week: Boston College, Virginia Tech, Missouri, Oklahoma, Arizona State, Southern California, UCLA, LSU, Tennessee
Still alive for an at-large bid: Brigham Young, Clemson, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Kansas
Posted by Al Bert, Tampa on 11/29 at 02:33 PM
Dear David Fleeman & The Bulldog Nation -
Enjoy your win over the Gators this year. Since UF had beaten Georgia FIFTEEN out of SEVENTEEN (15 of 17) times, I am sure that you are partying like it is 1980.
Too bad you lost to crappy teams like South Carolina and Tennessee (both of whom UF beat) and that Georgia and Florida are in the same position in the SEC East....NOT in the title game.
Enjoy your Sugar Bowl matchup versus the Fighting Rainbow Warriors of Hawaii. I am sure that will be awesome.
BTW...UGA IV should be put to sleep.
Much Love,
The Gator Nation
Posted by Andy Staples, on 11/29 at 01:51 PM
Susan,
Dan is a heck of an American, and I’m glad to see he used the plan I proposed in my blog in November 2006—I can’t take credit; lots of people had the same idea—of creating a 16-team tournament that mimics the basketball tournament. Unfortunately, this won’t happen. The logistics of putting it all together are almost impossible to overcome. However, I do think you’ll eventually see a four-team, seeded playoff that keeps the regular season meaningful and allows for a more definitive answer to the ultimate question, What is the meaning of life, I mean, Which is the best team in America?
Posted by Susan Dambrell, Lake Placid on 11/29 at 10:51 AM
Another class act out of Georgia!
Andy - have you read Dan Wentzel’s column today on a college playoff? Which also brings up the question, what is your take on a college playoff? I read you faithfully, but I apologize if you have already addressed this.
Go Gators!
(The Wetzel plan
By Dan Wetzel, Yahoo! Sports
November 27, 2007)
Posted by David S Fleeman, Winder, Ga on 11/28 at 08:35 AM
Hay Gator Nation, Yah Lost Three in conference games. Not only are you behind the DAWGS (gosh I never knew Gators had such cold noses) but you got a three loss team. So stop dreaming and go back to your stinky septic tank overflowing muck AKA The Swamp. Go DAWGS !
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Posted by Andy Staples, on 11/29 at 08:23 PM
Al,
I hate to burst your bubble, but I think UGA IV went to that big doghouse in the sky a while ago. UGA VI has been the mascot since 1999, but as we learned last week, he isn’t the only pooch with a taste for Auburn players.