SEC Football: New SEC Bowl with Big 12 Won't Have Huge Impact on Bowl Tie-Ins

The SEC and Big 12 announced on Friday that they will create a new bowl game following the 2014 season that will match the champion of both conferences if they are not included in the four-team playoff. If one or both conferences supply teams for the four-team playoff, other teams within the conference(s) would be selected.

In terms of today's landscape, this bowl game would jump up to the top of the SEC's non-BCS pecking order.

So how does it affect the rest of the SEC's bowl tie-ins? Using the assumption that the playoff will take the top four teams of the final BCS standings (or some variation thereof), not much. 

Only three times (2006, 2008 and 2011) in the BCS era has the SEC placed two teams in the top four, but the conference has sent two teams to the BCS nine times. Which means, more times than not, that an at-large BCS bid would be going to the newly created SEC/Big 12 bowl.

Will the bowls lose some of their cachet as a result of this newly created game? Not really. Save for the BCS National Championship Game, they're all exhibitions anyway. 

What the game does do is reshape the landscape outside of the playoff to give more power to the conferences rather than bowl committees.

Matt Hayes of Sporting News said it best:

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Source to SN: Goal of new #SEC-Big12 bowl is a stand-alone game with its own (separate) TV contract. Revenue potential "unthinkable."

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"— Matt Hayes (@Matt_HayesSN) May 18, 2012"

Yep. What the SEC and Big 12 have done is create a buffer for BCS at-large teams. Essentially, it's the Rose Bowl without the committee...or parade.

That sound you hear is money being printed at the respective offices of the SEC and Big 12.

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