Bowl games are generally translated into bowl games, sometimes into playoff games according to the habit of basketball, or into cup games according to the habit of football. In fact, it is a general term for some games after the end of the regular season.
Why is it called a bowl game? This should start with its origin. 1902, California Rose Bowl Stadium (Rose
Bowl) held the football playoffs, University of Michigan 49-0 Stanford University. The game was named after the stadium and called the Rose Bowl Competition, which originally meant "Rose Bowl Competition". The name of Rose Bowl Stadium can be traced back to Yale Bowl, the seat of Yale University, which is the first stadium called Bowl in the United States. Yale thinks his football field looks like a bowl, so it is named like this.
After the First World War, the playoffs held in the Rose Bowl Stadium gradually became a routine and an annual classic event. The participating teams are all strong schools with excellent performance in the season, so their influence is very high. In 1930s, the number of NCAA college teams increased gradually, and the single Rose Bowl competition could not meet the demand. Seeing the success of the Rose Bowl, four other famous stadiums in the southern United States: Louisiana Dome Stadium in New Orleans (now renamed Mercedes Dome Stadium), Cotton Bowl Stadium in Dallas, Sun Bowl Stadium in El Paso and Yongming Stadium in Miami, began to hold similar activities. Because the Rose Bowl is so famous, these four stadiums also took advantage of this when naming the event. Cotton Bowl and Sun Bowl are naturally called Cotton Bowl and Sun Bowl, Sugar Bowl in New Orleans and Orange Bowl in Miami. In this way, the names of the first five college playoffs all have "bowls"
The word "game". 1In the 1940s and 1950s, various invitational playoffs were established, all of which adopted the name of xx Bowl. Therefore, this series of college football playoffs is called bowl game. Later, NFL finals of professional events also borrowed this tradition from NCAA and were called Super.
Bowling is now the annual "American Spring Festival Evening"-Super Bowl.
Why so many:
The simplest explanation is that there are many universities. NCAA has more than 1200 universities involved. Of course, not all schools are eligible to participate in the bowl competition, as will be mentioned below. Theoretically, there are 127 schools (if I remember correctly) eligible to participate in the bowl match. Of course, these universities all want to show their faces in the bowl competition, first for honor, second for tradition, and third for better showing themselves across the competition areas, so as to recruit new talents in the coming year. However, only two teams can participate in each bowl match. Therefore, since the 1960s, more bowling competitions have been held in NCAA. Today, about two-thirds of the 127 colleges and universities can qualify for the bowl competition.
But bowl games and bowl games are not equal, and they should be divided into three categories. Some bowl games are highly concerned, high-level, with history and tradition, and some bowl games have low influence and little history, and are often dubbed toilets.
How to allocate places:
Not every college football team has a chance to participate in the bowl game. In fact, most universities with football teams have no chance (such as Ivy League). To go to the bowling match, you must be an FBS team. FBS is a subdivision of football bowl, which is a division in NCAA Division-1, corresponding to FCS where Ivy is located.
The FBI has 10 regional alliances, namely:
Five top leagues: Pac- 12, Big 12, Big Ten, SEC, ACC.
The top five leagues: C-USA, Mike, Western Mountain, Sun Belt and AAC (former great eastern).
There are also independent teams: Notre Dame University, Brigham Young University and West Point Military Academy.
Then in principle, in the regular season, you must win at least 6 games to participate in the bowl game.
Take this year (20 15) as an example.
In principle, the filling order of each bowl competition team is as follows:
Rose Bowl: Top Ten Champions vs Pac- 12 Champions
Sugar bowl: second champion vs big 12 champion
Orange bowl: ACC champion vs (the highest ranked one among VS(BIGTEN runner-up, SEC runner-up or independent teams, and independent teams must be in the top 8 to qualify)
Fiesta Bowl: Against the remaining top ranked team or the top five champions in the middle and strong division and the teams ranked within 25.
Cotton bowl: same as above.
Peach Bowl: Same as above.
These are principles. However, as mentioned above, the six bowl competitions take turns to undertake the semi-final tasks, while the semi-finals in 20 15 were cotton bowls and orange bowls, so the pit filling order of the remaining four bowl competitions is in the downward order:
Cotton Cup: Semifinal
Orange Cup: Semifinal
Rose Bowl: Top Ten Champions vs Pac- 12 Champions
Sugar bowl: second champion vs big 12 champion
Carnival Bowl: ACC champion VS (the highest ranked one among VS(BIGTEN runner-up, SEC runner-up or independent teams, and independent teams must be in the top 8 to qualify)
Peach Bowl: Against the remaining top ranked teams or the top five champions in the middle and strong division and the teams ranked within 25.
But when it comes to formation, the situation is more complicated.
First, at the beginning of1February, the committee of NCAA FBS will release the final version of the playoff rankings, and the top four universities will participate in the semi-finals before the finals of that year.
After the final round and regional finals, the Committee selected the top 25 of 20 15 according to the comprehensive performance of the whole season and the intensity of the schedule:
1. Clemson University;
2. University of Alabama;
3. Michigan State University;
4. University of Oklahoma;
5. University of Iowa;
6. Stanford University;
7. Ohio State University;
8. Notre Dame University;
9. Florida State University;
10. University of North Carolina;
1 1. Texas Christian University;
12. University of Mississippi;
13. Northwest University;
14. University of Michigan;
15. University of Oregon;
16. Oklahoma State University;
17. Baylor University;
18. University of Houston;
19. University of Florida;
20. Louisiana State University;
2 1. Naval Academy;
22. University of Utah;
23. University of Tennessee;
24. Temple University;
25. University of Southern California.
According to the rules, 1 and 4 will join hands with the cotton bowl, and 2 and 3 will join hands with the orange bowl. So this year's cotton bowl is the University of Alabama vs Michigan State University, and the orange bowl is Clemson University vs Oklahoma University. There will be a final between the winners of these two games. The top four teams also happen to be champions of ACC, SEC, Big Ten and Big 12 respectively.
Then there are four left in six bowls. Stanford University, the champion of Pac- 12, did not enter the top four. So Stanford University automatically got the seat of the Rose Bowl according to the rules. The other seat of the Rose Bowl originally belonged to the top ten champions, but Michigan State University, the top ten champion, has entered the semi-finals as a semi-final, so the other seat of the Rose Bowl was won by the University of Iowa, the top ten runner-up and the fifth.
The remaining three bowls are more complicated. After considering many factors such as the record, status, history and influence of both sides, the organizing committee did not act in full accordance with the Basic Law in order to balance the sports meeting.
The Carnival Bowl was played by Notre Dame against Ohio State University, which ranked the highest (sixth). Notre Dame is an independent team that entered the top eight.
In the sugar bowl, Oklahoma State University, the runner-up of the big 12, won a seat, and the other seat was given to the University of Mississippi, which ranked 12.
After the Peach Bowl, Florida State University won a seat and became the runner-up of the SEC, while the University of Houston, which ranked the highest among the five medium-strong league champions, won another seat.
In this way, six top bowling tournaments have been arranged:
Cotton Cup: University of Alabama vs Michigan State University
Orange Bowl: Clemson University vs University of Oklahoma
Rose Bowl: Stanford University vs University of Iowa
Carnival Bowl: Notre Dame University vs Ohio State University
Sugar Bowl: Oklahoma State University vs University of Mississippi
Peachball: Florida State University vs University of Houston