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Yesterday we noted that the Football Bowl Association had finalized its 2012-13 schedule of postseason games. We provided you with a link to the master list as well.
But a few of you asked for an SEC-only breakdown of the games, so below are the contests that feature SEC tie-ins (including the BCS Championship Game which has basically become an additional SEC bowl).
We include day, date and time as well as broadcast network and the opponent’s conference affiliation. Print it, save it, post it on the fridge:
Friday 12/28, 2:00pm ET on ESPN — AdvoCare V100 Independence Bowl
SEC vs ACC
Monday 12/31, 12:00pm ET on ESPN — Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl
SEC vs ACC
Monday 12/31, 3:30pm ET on ESPN — AutoZone Liberty Bowl
SEC vs C-USA
Monday 12/31, 7:30pm ET on ESPN — Chick-fil-A Bowl
SEC vs ACC
Tuesday 1/1, 12:00pm ET on ESPN2 — TaxSlayer.com Gator Bowl
SEC vs Big Ten
Tuesday 1/1, 1:00pm ET either ESPN or ABC — Capital One Bowl
SEC vs Big Ten
Tuesday 1/1, 1:00pm ET either ESPN or ABC — Outback Bowl
SEC vs Big Ten
Tuesday 1/1, 8:30pm ET on ESPN — Allstate Sugar Bowl
SEC vs BCS Foe
Friday 1/4, 8:00pm ET on Fox — AT&T Cotton Bowl
SEC vs Big 12
Saturday 1/5, 1:00pm ET on ESPN — BBVA Compass Bowl
SEC vs Big East
Monday 1/7, 8:30pm ET on ESPN — Discover BCS National Championship Game
SEC? vs SEC? (Hey, it happened last year.)
Thoughts:
* As a new bowl day dawns in 2014, here’s hoping the SEC can dump a game against the ACC and pick up a game with the Pac-12. All the SEC’s existing bowl tie-ins go bye-bye in two more years. So movement/change is possible/likely.
* The SEC and Big 12 will launch the “Champions” Bowl in 2014 either as a stand-alone event or as a re-branded, rebuilt Sugar or Cotton Bowl. When the playoff was first rubber-stamped, most believed that a merger was in the offing, probably with Jerry Jones’ Cowboys Stadium-based Cotton Bowl. Since then, however, it’s looking increasingly like the conferences will indeed create the game on their own and bid it out to a different city each year. Stay tuned.
* If the SEC and Big 12 want to partner up on another bowl game, St. Louis makes a heckuva lot of sense and there’s no question that city’s sports commission wants in on the bowl action. If not the Big 12, then The Gateway to the West would serve as a good meeting ground for the SEC versus Pac-12 game we suggested above.
* The rationale behind the SEC and Big Ten scheduling three games opposite each other on New Year’s Day is obvious. It’s called “roadblocking” in the television industry and it creates the impression that both leagues own New Year’s Day. No matter where you flip from noon to 3pm ET, you’re probably going to see SEC and Big Ten teams. But that doesn’t make it any better for the fans of those leagues who have to decide which game to watch, while missing out on two others.
* Here’s hoping the trend of non-BCS bowls being played between New Year’s Day and the BCS title game — I’m looking at you AT&T Cotton and BBVA Compass — will die out with the new playoff. That’s probably not likely to happen, but here’s hoping.
