College Football Playoff To Start In 2015
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013 -- 7:52 PM
College Football Playoff will be the new name of the four-team playoff, which begins after the 2014 regular season.This is the final season of the BCS (Bowl Championship Series). For months, the commissioners have said they wanted a simple name for the new playoff.
Also, Arlington, Texas, and Cowboys Stadium officially will be awarded the first national championship game despite a strong bid from underdog Tampa, Fla. The first title game of the College Football Playoff will be Jan. 12, 2015. That announcement is expected Thursday.
Also on the agenda this week, the six bowls that will make up the semifinal rotation for the next 12 years. According to ESPN the Fiesta, Cotton and Chick-fil-A bowls will join the Rose, Sugar and Orange bowls in the six-bowl semifinal rotation for college football's new playoff.
A 14-20 person selection committee will be responsible for ranking, or seeding, and selecting the four teams that make the playoffs as well as rank the remaining teams that will compete in the other four major bowls each year that don't host the semifinals.
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