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

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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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