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Page 10 • The Battalion
Sports
Tuesday • November 28, 1995
Sugar Bowl bitter over alliance
□ The game in New Or
leans no longer gets
the SEC Champion.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — It
used to be so easy for the Sugar
Bowl. The Southeastern Confer
ence champion played the highest
ranked team the bowl could at
tract, sometimes with the nation
al championship at stake.
Not anymore.
Since the bowl alliance took
over, the only thing known for
sure is that the Sugar Bowl won’t
decide this year’s national title.
And with no automatic bid for
any conference, making the selec
tion is tougher than ever.
“Now we start off not knowing
who either of the two teams will
be,” said Sugar Bowl executive di
rector Troy Mathieu.
With only a few games left in
the regular season, Mathieu said
he still doesn’t know which teams
will be playing in New Orleans on
New Year’s Eve.
The Fiesta Bowl is expected to
have a 1-2 showdown between
Nebraska and Florida. The Or
ange Bowl and Sugar Bowl, which
make up the rest of the alliance,
then get to pick from a pool of
teams that include Notre Dame
and the champions or co-champs
of the Atlantic Coast (Florida
State), Big East (Virginia Tech or
Miami) and Southwest (the
Texas-Texas A&M winner) con
ferences.
After the Fiesta gets the first
two picks, the Orange selects
third and fifth. The Sugar gets
the No. 4 and No. 6 selections.
“We’re in a reactive mode to
the Orange bowl on both picks,”
Mathieu said. “They have the
first move and then we get what’s
left. We can’t control our destiny.”
However, the Sugar Bowl
can control the Orange Bowl’s
destiny.
The Orange Bowl apparently
wants No. 6 Notre Dame and
No. 22 Miami, although No. 8
Florida State also may be un
der consideration.
The Sugar seems to favor
Florida State and Texas, if the
College Bowl lineup
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Nevada (9-2)
vs. Toledo (10-0-1)
Las Vegas, Dec. 14,9 p m (ESPN)
Kansas (9-2)
vs. UCLA (7-4)
Honolulu, Dec. 25, 3:30 p.m. (ABC)
Air Force (8-4)
vs. Texas Tech (8-3)
Tucson, Ariz., Dec. 27, 9 p.m. (ESPN)
Texas (9-1-1 (-Texas A&M (8-2) loser
vs. Michigan (9-3)
San Antonio, Dec. 28. 8 p.m. (ESPN)
Washington (7-3-1)
vs. Iowa (7-4)
El Paso, Texas, Dec. 29, 2:30 p.m. (CBS)
INDEPENDENCE
IMOKIA.
Alliance (selections 4 and 6)
W/prirttSOU# New Orleans. Dec. 31.7:30 p.m. (ABC)
Penn State (8-3)
vs. Auburn (8-3)
Tampa, Fla., Jan. 1. 11 a m. (ESPN)
Tennessee (10-1)
vs. Ohio State (11-1)
Orlando, Fla., Jan. 1, 1 p.m. (ABC)
LSU (6-4-1)
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vs. Michigan State (6-4-1)
Shreveport, La., Dec. 29, 8:30 p.m. (ESPN)
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Colorado State (8-3)
vs. Kansas State (9-2)
MOftV aiVy San Diego, Dec. 29, 8 p.m (ESPN)
East Carolina (8-3)
USiiifV vs. Stanford (7-3-1)
mm. Memphis, Tenn., Dec. 30, noon (ESPN)
Syracuse (8-3)
vs. North Carolina (6-5)
Miami. Dec 30, 7:30 p.m. (TBS)
Virginia (8-4)
vs. Alabama (8-3), Arkansas (8-3)
or Georgia (6-5)
Atlanta, Dec. 30, 8 p.m. (ESPN)
Longhorns beat Texas A&M.
However, Virginia Tech also is be
lieved to be on the Sugar’s list.
If the Orange decides it wants
a Notre Dame-Florida State
game, that complicates things for
the Sugar Bowl.
If the Sugar wants Virginia
Tech, that complicates things for
a Notre Dame-Miami Orange
Bowl because only one Big East
team can play in the alliance.
“Some people assume we’ll
make our pick to mess up the Or
ange, but they’re mistaken,’’
Mathieu said. “We’re in the busi
ness of making our own plans, not
trying to affect another bowl.”
But what if the Orange takes
Miami with its first pick? Or what
if, to head off the Sugar Bowl, the
Orange picks Florida State? If
Miami (8-3) or Virginia Tech (9-2)
vs. Clemson (8-3)
Jacksonville, Fla., Jan. 1, 1 p.m. (NBC)
Colorado (9-2)
vs Oregon (9-2)
Dallas, Texas, Jan 1, 1:30 p m. (CBS)
Northwestern (10-1)
vs. Southern California (8-2-1)
Pasadena, Calif., Jan. 1, 5 p.m. (ABC)
Alliance (selections 3 and 5)
Miami, Fla., Jan. 1, 8 p.m. (CBS)
Nebraska (11-0)
vs. Alliance (selection 2)
Tompa, Arizona, Jan. 2,8:30 p.m. (CBS)
that happens, Mathieu admits
the Sugar would be interested in
Notre Dame with its huge televi
sion and crowd appeal.
“Every bowl is always interest
ed in Notre Dame,” Mathieu said.
No. 13 Virginia Tech doesn’t
have the national appeal of the
other schools, but the Hokies are
still a possibility for the Sugar
Bowl, Mathieu said.
“They bring an attribute every
bowl likes — they travel well,"
Mathieu said. “In other words,
they bring people to our city and
have a positive impact on the
economy. That’s why bowls are
set up.”
With tickets going from $50 to
$100 this year, the Sugar is anx
ious not to have empty seats for
the game.
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