The Big 6 and Virginia Tech

Yesterday the BCS Presidential Oversight Committee finally made it official.  College football will have a four-team playoff beginning in the 2014 season.

Here’s what we know about the playoffs:

Rotating Semifinals

The two semifinal games will rotate amongst the six big bowl games.  That’s right, there will now be six big bowl games, which means 12 teams.  The Rose Bowl will be there, and so will the Champions Bowl (Big 12 vs. SEC … it will have a real name by the time this playoff gets started).  The ACC is close to finalizing a deal with the Orange Bowl.  Those would be the three contract bowls that take part in the rotation.

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