Orange Bowl reaches 12-year deal with ACC

The Atlantic Coast Conference and the Orange Bowl officials have reached agreement on a new agreement to provide a home for the conference champions in college football playoff format.

The new agreement, which is scheduled to begin after the 2014 season and during the last 12 years, has the Orange Bowl, where he held the ACC Champion unless that team has been selected to participate in the semifinals national.

In this case, another representative of the League will be the place.


In addition, the Orange Bowl will host at least four semi-finals playoff games with the new model.

In these years, the ACC champion, then attend one of three bowls of this machine the Presidential Monitoring Committee will determine the BCS.

The Orange Bowl is scheduled to be played on New Year's Eve at 1 pm ET.

The agreement was expected something like the CAC was looking for a bowl game in under the new model of the postseason.

The Big Ten Conference and Pac-12 is the Rose Bowl and the SEC and 12 children have their bowl Champions again only makes sense that the CAC would like to pick up a point.

With the playoffs just created, four teams will be selected at the end of the season to participate in two national semifinals, which are part of a rotation of six bowl. , The Fiesta Orange and Rose were referred to the rotation with the speculation surrounding a sugar container, cotton and other types of capital as possible destinations. And 'the Orange Bowl for a long time in the history of college football that make it an attractive option postseason.

Since its creation in 1935, the Cup was his 20-BCS national championship games, including games of this season's National Championship next January 4, 2013.

"The Orange Bowl ACC and Discover is a fantastic relationship, and look to the future of postseason college football, this will promote an existing partnership beneficial to both organizations," commissioner John Swofford said the ACC, said a press release.

"Discover The Orange Bowl has a rich history of prestige, is within the league mark and is an ideal destination for student athletes, alumni and fans. In addition to the existing collaboration in the future, we are pleased be able to play every year at New Day this year. "

No one knows yet who could be the match for the game.

As part of the model of the playoffs once again, the automatic classification has been eliminated as a conference heard that the average is very large, for example, are not guaranteed a place in one of six bowls at least one BCS will select their teams in the top four or the development of a Bowl Championship under.