The Big 12 and a Southeastern conferences have announced a understanding that will array their football regular-season champions opposite any other in a New Year’s Day play diversion for 5 years commencement in 2014, positioning themselves for a approaching switch to a four-team playoff.
In fact, SEC Commissioner Mike Slive all though pronounced it‘s entrance in Friday’s proclamation of a agreement between dual of a many successful BCS conferences.
”A new Jan play tradition is born,” Slive pronounced in a statement. ”This new diversion will yield a good matchup between a dual many successful conferences in a BCS epoch and will element a sparkling postseason atmosphere combined by a new four-team model. Most importantly, it will yield a student-athletes, coaches and fans with an superb play experience.”
If one or both of a league champions are comparison to play in a playoff, another group would be comparison for a Big 12-SEC play showdown on Jan. 1.
The pierce will settle a homogeneous of a Pac 12 vs. Big Ten Rose Bowl, reduction scarcely a century of tradition. Those dual conferences have pushed for a new format preserving that matchup for a Rose Bowl, that Slive has indicated he doesn’t favor.
”Our idea is to yield a fans opposite a nation with a New Year’s Day prime-time tradition,” behaving Big 12 Conference Commissioner Chuck Neinas said. ”This is a landmark agreement between dual of a many successful football conferences during a BCS epoch to theatre a postseason event. The origination of this diversion featuring a champions of a Big 12 and SEC will have extensive inflection in college football.”
Specific sum for a matchup, including horde sites, will be announced later.
BCS executive executive Bill Hancock has pronounced 11 discussion commissioners and Notre Dame’s jaunty executive will benefaction a ”small number” of options – dual to 7 configurations – for a four-team playoff to their leagues during conference meetings this summer.
SEC teams have won a past 6 BCS inhabitant titles, including Alabama’s feat over LSU in January. The Big 12 and SEC have any had a top-four group in a final standings in 11 of a 14 seasons given a BCS was created, a many of any league. They share a tip mark with 14 teams every finishing in one of those 4 spots.
The dual league champions have met twice in BCS play games given 1998, both in BCS championship games. In 2010, Alabama degraded Texas, 37-21, in Pasadena, Cal., and in 2009 Florida degraded Oklahoma, 24-14, in Miami.
The pierce is generally notable for a Big 12, that was scrambling to reason itself together only dual years ago after losing 4 teams.
Nebraska left for a Big Ten, Colorado went to a Pac-12 and, as of Jul 1, Missouri and Texas AM will be in a SEC. The Big 12 is adding TCU and West Virginia this year to sojourn during 10 member schools.
”This agreement reinforces that a Big 12 is accurately what we’ve been observant for some time — a strong, stable, colourful discussion that is during a forefront of intercollegiate athletics,” pronounced Dr. Sheahon Zenger, a Kansas jaunty director.
Jayhawks manager Charlie Weis agreed.
”What a good day for a Big 12,” he said, ”To be matched with a champion of a SEC places a dual many successful conferences in a BCS epoch head-to-head. All Big 12 fans should be happy today.”