The New Developments on the College Football Playoffs... and How it Would Shake Out This Year

Well, in case you haven't seen the bombshell article on ESPN, new details have come out about the way the new college football playoff will work starting in 2014. Here's what's I said wasn't going to happen that is:
1) The Rose and Sugar Bowls WILL take part in the semi-final rotation just like the other 6 bowls
2) There will be NO 7th bowl game
3) The highest ranked "Group of 5" champion will get an AUTOMATIC BID to one of the 6 semi's
4) No Group of 5 team can play in the Rose/Sugar/Orange Bowls unless it's in a semi-final
Here's what we still don't know:
1) Where the first national championship game will be. Atlanta? Tampa? Dallas? Houston? All those names and more have been thrown out there.
2) Which 3 bowls will be the "access bowls". The Fiesta, Peach and Cotton are the early leaders as I suggested.
So, here's how I think it would shake out if the season ended today. I'm going to assume the following semi-final rotation for my purposes:
2012: Orange, Cotton
2013: Rose, Peach
2014: Fiesta, Sugar
I'm using the at-large selection order of Fiesta, Peach.
Orange (semi #1): 2 Oregon vs. 3 Notre Dame
Cotton (semi #2): 1 Kansas State vs. 4 Alabama
Rose: 13 Stanford vs. 14 Nebraska
Sugar: 5 Georgia vs. 12 Oklahoma
Fiesta: 6 Florida vs. 11 Clemson
Peach: 10 Florida State vs. 20 Louisiana Tech

That's all for now!

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