Orange Bowl and NC: what happens if ACC team plays in Semis and its the Orange Bowl

[arbitragegls]

...according to David Teel, the #2 team in the ACC gets to go to another access bowl...good news!

So here’s how the new postseason will work:
The 24 playoff semifinals during the 12 years will be split among the Orange, Rose, Sugar and three access bowls. Four each.
The national championship game will be bid out and awarded separately, like the Final Four and Super Bowl.
If the ACC champion qualifies for the playoffs in a year when the Orange is not a semifinal host, the next-highest ranked ACC team will play in the Orange. If the ACC champ makes an Orange Bowl semifinal, then the league’s No. 2 team heads to an access bowl.
Were the system in place this season, the bowls might look as follows:
Oregon, Kansas State, Notre Dame and the SEC champ to the national semifinals. With Notre Dame unavailable and only one Big Ten team (Nebraska) among the top 20, the ACC’s Orange Bowl opponent would come from the SEC.
Projecting Alabama to the playoffs and LSU to the Sugar Bowl, the Orange Bowl would then have paired presumed ACC champ Florida State with Georgia, Texas A&M or South Carolina. The Aggies’ Johnny Football against the Seminoles’ defense would have been worth the price of admission

 

[rrlbees]

Aren't those access bowls like the cotton and chick bowl? What I don't get about all these deals is that the other conferences have guarantees of playing in the orange X number of times but an ACC team isn't guaranteed to play in the sugar, rose, etc.

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[Scooch]

Aren't those access bowls like the cotton and chick bowl? What I don't get about all these deals is that the other conferences have guarantees of playing in the orange X number of times but an ACC team isn't guaranteed to play in the sugar, rose, etc.

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Seems like the SEC and B1G have worked an advantage (shocker). They're the only 2 conferences to have locked in a 2nd spot in a contract bowl. ACC, Big 12 and PAC-12 just have their conference champs guaranteed. The access bowls are all at-large, right?

 

[omniorange]

Seems like the SEC and B1G have worked an advantage (shocker). They're the only 2 conferences to have locked in a 2nd spot in a contract bowl. ACC, Big 12 and PAC-12 just have their conference champs guaranteed. The access bowls are all at-large, right?

Yes, except for highest G5 champion (if said champion doesn't make the playoffs) and any displaced P5 champion who does not make the playoffs (e.g. ACC champion when not in playoffs and OB a semi-final game).

Cheers,
Neil

 

[All4SU]

Seems like the SEC and B1G have worked an advantage (shocker). They're the only 2 conferences to have locked in a 2nd spot in a contract bowl. ACC, Big 12 and PAC-12 just have their conference champs guaranteed. The access bowls are all at-large, right?

If for example the chick-fil-a bowl gets picked as part of the rotation, couldn't the ACC negotiate to put their #2 there in years when they are not in the rotation?

 

[omniorange]

If for example the chick-fil-a bowl gets picked as part of the rotation, couldn't the ACC negotiate to put their #2 there in years when they are not in the rotation?

No. The Peach is a Host Bowl, which means the selection committee decides who goes there except if the ACC champion is displaced when the OB is a semi-final game. In that instance, the Peach (which is unlikely to be the other semi-final game would be the most logical place to put the displaced ACC champ.)

Cheers,
Neil