Talk:2015 Sugar Bowl

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Teams: #1 vs. #4 -- or #2 vs. #3[edit]

The Sugar Bowl will pair either the #1 team against the #4 team, or the #2 team against the #3 team. The decision about which will be made after the regular season, once the final College Football Playoff standings have been announced. Therefore, the article should not say that it will be #2 vs. #3 in the Sugar Bowl. It might be -- there's a 50% chance of it -- but that will be decided in December. This is supported by several sources. On FBSchedules it says, "The team ranked No. 1 by the selection committee will play team No. 4 in the semifinals. Team No. 2 will meet team No. 3.... When assigning teams to sites, the committee will place the top two seeds at the most advantageous sites, weighing criteria such as convenience of travel for its fans, home-crowd advantage or disadvantage and general familiarity with the host city and its stadium. Preference will go to the No. 1 seed." On USA Today it says, "The selection committee's goal will be to protect the top two seeds from playing in road environments in semifinal games. For instance, if Southern Cal was the No. 1 seed and LSU was the No. 4 in 2014, that semifinal could be played in the Rose Bowl but not the Sugar Bowl." And the same is also true for the 2015 Rose Bowl. I have raised this point repeatedly, in my edit summaries for the article, at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject College football#Playoff semifinal games, at Talk:2015 Rose Bowl#Teams: #1 vs. #4 -- or #2 vs. #3 and also at User talk:Ucla90024#CFP semifinal games, but I have received no response. — Mudwater^(Talk) 00:33, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]