SEC and Big 12 announce new bowl partnership
May 18th, 2012
The SEC and Big 12 will pit their best two teams against one another starting in 2014 according to the AP.
The Big 12 and the Southeastern conferences have announced a deal that will pit their football regular-season champions against each other in a bowl game for five years beginning in 2014.
The agreement between two of the most successful BCS conferences was announced Friday.
If one or both of the league champions are selected to play in what is expected to be a four-team national championship playoff, another team would be selected for the Big 12-SEC matchup.
The only problem is that it’s very likely that the two conferences will produce one or more teams that will play in the new 4 team playoff that will also start the same year. If the game was held this year it’s unclear who the SEC would’ve sent. Alabama and LSU both likely would have been in the playoff. LSU definitely would’ve been in the chase for the title. Perhaps the SEC would send the loser of the championship game or the next best team record-wise.
Mike Slive loves the new bowl tradition which will be similar to the Big Ten-Pac 12 Rose Bowl deal.
“A new January bowl tradition is born. This new game will provide a great matchup between the two most successful conferences in the BCS era and will complement the exciting postseason atmosphere created by the new four-team model. Most importantly, it will provide our student-athletes, coaches and fans with an outstanding bowl experience.”
It’s not known where the game will be held but you have to think Dallas or Atlanta would be two destinations on the drawing board.
Although we likely won’t ever see the two best teams play there are some exciting possibilities such as LSU vs. Texas, Alabama vs. Oklahoma, and Missouri and Texas A&M could get to mix it up with some old rivals that they won’t get to play any more.




