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Rose Bowl = BCS #1 vs BCS #2

after that, it is the bowl game that has been the longest without being the nat'l championship, this year it would be the Fiesta, that gets to choose the next two teams. this continues for the sugar, then orange bowl would get the 2 remaining teams. normally, the bowls would like to keep the traditional match ups if possible, but if they get a matchup they can't refuse, they usually won't.

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Nope.

The bowls retain their traditional tie-ins (Rose - Pac10, Big10; Orange - BigEast, ACC; Fiesta - Big12; Sugar - SEC).

The BCS#1 and #2 go to the Rose Bowl.

The remaining bowls choose their "host" team. They choose in this order this year: Orange, Fiesta, Sugar. If a team loses it's affiliated school, it gets to choose a replacement with at-large school before the other bowls fill their open slots. If two separate bowls lose a tie-in school, the bowl whose school is BCS#1 gets the first choice of at-large teams.

Once each bowl has a "host" school, then the three bowls will choose to fill out their remaining spots in the same order: Orange, Fiesta, Sugar.

Example for this year:

ACC champ - Miami
BigEast champ - WV
Big10 - Penn St
Big12 - Texas (#2)
Pac10 - USC (#1)
SEC - Alabama

So in this scenario, we have:

Rose Bowl - USC vs Texas
Orange Bowl - gets to pick either the ACC champ or the BigEast champ, and they take Miami
Fiesta Bowl - gets to pick a replacement for Texas, so they choose Notre Dame (any team in the top 12 in the final BCS standings is eligible to be picked)
Sugar Bowl - Alabama (SEC tie-in)

Now the bowls fill out their remaining slots:

Orange - takes Penn St (rematch of the 1986 championship game)
Fiesta - takes one of: Va Tech, Ohio St, LSU (whichever at-large team it wants)
Sugar - stuck with West Virginia

Matchups:

Rose - USC/Texas
Orange - Miami/Penn St
Fiesta - ND/(OSU,VaTech,LSU)
Sugar - Alabama/West Virginia