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The Orange, Rose, Fiesta and Sugar Bowls have signed extensions through 2013 to remain the sites for the BCS bowl games.  This is not a big surprise as the money has been too good for the bowl games to bow out.

The current contract was due to expire after the Rose Bowl hosts the championship in 2010 but starting in 2011 the rotation will start with the Championship game hosted by the Fiesta in Glendale.

It looks like we can forget a playoff until 2013, at least.  This is when these new contracts as well as the TV contracts end.

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Underclassman had until 5 p.m. Thursday evening(January 15) to declare for the 2009 NFL Draft. The list of entrants have changed our college bowl projections for the 2009-2010 season, including the national championship game prediction played in the Rose Bowl.

CollegeBowlProjections.com had USC in the national championship game. The Trojans’ defense is losing most of their defense but with Taylor Mays staying in school and Pete Carroll at the helm, we figured the Trojans would be one of the top defenses in the nation again. Quarterback Mark Sanchez declaring for the draft was our deciding factor to remove them out of the title game.

The Sanchez era will end and the Mitch Mustain, Aaron Corp or Matt Barkley era will begin at USC. A new quarterback figures to result in another odd loss for the Trojans this season and keep them out of the title game. Too many teams are returning starting quarterbacks and two of them are likely to have a better record than the Trojans at the end of the season. This decision doesn’t mean the Trojans will falter too far. We still have them winning the Pac-10 and representing in the Rose Bowl.

LeSean McCoy—running back from Pittsburgh—said he was going to stay in school and then changed his mind this week. His loss is significant for the Panthers. The Big East appears to be down for another year and our predictions believed McCoy would be able to overcome the quarterback deficiencies and get the Panthers in a bowl championship game. The Panthers defense should be solid but not enough to win the Big East. Returning quarterback Matt Grothe and South Florida Bulls have become our favorite to represent the Big East.

The decision of Sam Bradford staying at Oklahoma and Colt McCoy remaining at Texas creates a national title game on October 17th in Dallas between the two teams. We believe the winner of that game will receive one of the national title spots at the end of the season. Make sure to mark your calendar, finish your yard work, and send the family out of the house for this game in October.

We’ll take the Longhorns in the match-up right now but that could change quickly depending how the season begins.

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The best conferences in bowl games:
Pac-10 5-0
SEC 6-2

The worst conferences in bowl games:
Mid-American 0-5
Big Ten 1-6

Great Defenses:
Florida holding Oklahoma to 14 points.

TCU holding Boise State to 16 points.  The last time Boise State was held under 20 points was September 8, 2007(Washington 24 Boise State 10)

Lousy Offenses:
Oregon State 3 Pittsburgh 0.  The Beavers had an excuse missing the Rodgers’ brothers for the game but Pitt needs to desperately find a quarterback for next season. Pitt quarterbacks completed 9 of 27 passes for a total of 89 yards, 0 touchdowns and 1 interception.  Can you imagine how many more yards LeSean McCoy could run for if they had a decent pass game?

We didn’t see that coming:
Notre Dame thumping Hawaii 49-21 in the Hawaii Bowl.  After all the debate about Charlie Weiss returning, the Irish gave the Warriors a whoopin on their home turf.  Casey Clausen went 22/26 401 yards and 5 touchdowns.

Ole Miss putting 47 points on Texas Tech in Texas at the Cotton Bowl.  We knew the Big 12 didn’t have the best defense but we didn’t see the Rebels giving Tech a bunch of their own medicine.

Utah 21 Alabama 0 after 11 minutes in the first quarter.  The Crimson Tide were blown away by a far better prepared team in the Sugar Bowl.

We saw that coming:
USC dominating another Big Ten team in the Rose Bowl.  Pete Carroll prepares his team as well as anyone for bowl season.

Virginia Tech winning the Orange Bowl.  The Cincinnati Bearcats are new to the BCS and showed they didn’t have the poise to defeat a young Hokie team.

Another BCS mess:
Why do we continue to deal with this terrible system?  Who is rolling in all the cash from the bowl systems that won’t allow a change?  Why aren’t the over 50 non-BCS schools not working together to destroy this system?

We endure another year with controversy about the number one team in the nation.  Florida, USC, Utah and Texas should all have a piece of the title this season until they fix this joke of a system.

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We all know that several NCAA teams were robbed of the chance to win the National Championship due to the lack of a playoff. Were we also robbed of the chance to see some fantastic games? Collegebowlprojections.com ran a mock 16 team playoff just to see how the match-ups may have come down.

We used the BCS to determine the top 16 with the exception of the 16th seed, would have been BYU but we had to put in an ACC team because that conference would never be denied an enterant in the field. Here is how it went down:

This is how we see the playoff going down.

• A first round rematch between TCU and Utah. In the earlier game Utah pulled it out in a 13-10 defensive struggle.

• The high flying Texas Tech offense would have faced off against the fast, experienced Ohio State defense.

• Who wouldn’t have liked to see another SEC grudge match between Georgia and Florida?

• Nick Saban and Pete Carroll matching up in the second round would have been great. These 2 legendary programs would have drawn quite a buzz.

• We would have also may have had the opportunity to see what we thought the Fiesta Bowl should have been this year, Utah against Texas. The quicker Texas defense may have been too much for the Utes.

• We don’t need to comment on the final 4. Any of these 4 teams would have been deserving national champions after going through that rugged playoff schedule.

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CollegeBowlProjections.com gives you the first bowl predictions for the upcoming NCAA college football 2009-2010 season. Find out where your team will go bowling next season. Give us your bowl projections in the comments section and see if you can top our predictions for the upcoming college football season.

2010 College Football Bowl Championship Series Rules:

The 2009-2010 college football national championship game will be held in the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California on January 7th, 2010. The BCS selection process be as follows next year.

Conference champions for each BCS bowl game:

Atlantic Coast Conference-Orange Bowl
Big Ten Conference-Rose Bowl
Big 12 Conference-Fiesta Bowl
Pac-10 Conference-Rose Bowl
Southeastern Conference-Sugar Bowl

If any bowl game loses their conference champion to the national championship game, they will receive first chose for a replacement team.

The selection order for the 2010 BCS bowl games are:

1. Orange Bowl
2. Sugar Bowl
3. Fiesta Bowl

The Rose Bowl has first option to select the top Big Ten and Pac-10 teams remaining.

Stay update with the latest 2009 college football bowl predictions here.

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The bowl season has begun and conferences will try to prove they were the best conference in the nation this season. We’ll continue to update this page with the latest records of each conference. Here are the results and standings for the conferences so far during the 2008-2009 college football bowl games.

Pac-10: 5-0
(Arizona 31 BYU 21, California 24 Miami 17, Oregon 42 Oklahoma State 31, Oregon State 3 Pittsburgh 0, USC 38 Penn State 24)

SEC: 6-2
(Vanderbilt 16 Boston College 14, LSU 38 Georgia Tech 3, Georgia 24 Michigan State 12, Ole Miss 47 Texas Tech 34, Kentucky 25 East Carolina 19, Florida 24 Oklahoma 14)

Big East: 4-2
(South Florida 41 Memphis 14, West Virginia 31 North Carolina 30, Rutgers 29 North Carolina State 23, Connecticut 38 Buffalo 20)

Conference USA: 4-2
(Southern Miss 30 Troy 27, Rice 38 Western Michigan 14, Houston 34 Air Force 28, Tulsa 45 Ball State 13)

Big 12: 4-3
(Missouri 30 Northwestern 23, Kansas 42 Minnesota 21, Nebraska 26 Clemson 21,Texas 24 Ohio State 21)

Mountain West Conference: 3-2
(TCU 17 Boise State 16, Colorado State 40 Fresno State 35, Utah 31 Alabama 17)

Independents: 1-1
(Notre Dame 49 Hawaii 21)

Sun Belt: 1-1
(Florida Atlantic 24 Central Michigan 21)

ACC: 4-6
(Wake Forest 29 Navy 19, Florida State 42 Wisconsin 13, Maryland 42 Nevada 35, Virginia Tech 20 Cincinnati 7)

WAC: 1-4
(Louisiana Tech 17 Northern Illinois 10)

Big Ten: 1-6
(Iowa 31 South Carolina 10)

MAC: 0-5

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