The New Bowl Championship Series

1.    There are 48 teams invited to the New Bowl Championship Series. The selection committee (which may or may not be made up of the current members of the BCS committee) ranks the 48 teams, numbers 1 through 48 and “seeds” them much like the NCAA men’s basketball tournament (see 2008 Mock Up Bracket).

2.    The top 16 teams (Tier 1) receive a first round bye (see Top 48 Week 15 2008).

3.    Tier 2 (17 through 32) host Tier 3 (33 through 48) always commencing the Friday and Saturday immediately following Thanksgiving.

4.    The first round winners play the bye teams in the second round at already existing “first tier” bowl locations commencing the following Thursday, Friday and Saturday after Thanksgiving weekend.

5.    Those winners play the following Friday and Saturday at already existing “second tier” bowl locations.

6.    Those 8 winners play every year in four games on Christmas Day in the Citrus, the Fiesta, the Sugar, and the Outback bowls.

7.    Those 4 winners play in two games on January 1 in the Rose Bowl and the Orange Bowl each year.

8.    The winners play for the undisputed national championship, when the TV executives decide, but no earlier than January 8th. The Rose, Orange, Sugar, and Fiesta bowls continue to rotate the national championship game exactly the same as they do now.