The Florida State Seminoles and the Ohio State Buckeyes entered Saturday's conference championship games on a path to the national title game in the BCS rankings and Stanford is into the Rose Bowl after defeating Arizona State and Auburn comes into the selection show on Sunday winning the SEC, while Baylor now has a place in the Fiesta Bowl after winning over Texas for the Big 12 title.
After Alabama lost to the Auburn Tigers last weekend in the craziest finish of the season, all possibilities were opened up for the top teams behind and that pushed Florida State into the number one ranked spot, while the Ohio State Buckeyes moves into number two after both remained undefeated through the regular season. Heading into the games on Saturday both teams were expected to make it into the BCS National Championship game and with Auburn winning the SEC title, they put themselves in position to get into the Rose Bowl championship game for the national title if things shake out and Alabama has to be upset with how they allowed the Tigers to upset them in the Iron Bowl.
The BCS has a number of games already set with the Baylor Bears winning the Big 12 in a win over Texas on Saturday and Auburn won the SEC championship over Missouri with a dominating performance in an exciting game. The entire bowl schedule will be filled out on Sunday night and there could be a number of very good matchups in the second tier games and bigger bowls, including ones with teams right on the cusp, including Wisconsin, South Carolina, Michigan, Georgia, Clemson and Alabama. UCF is locked into the Orange Bowl after winning the American Athletic conference and they had a nice streak to end the season and the Rose Bowl will have Michigan State most likely if Ohio State wins.
Miami will get into a decent game most likely and Texas A&M with Johnny Manziel will be a sought after team for a bowl game as well. The Capital One Bowl should be a good matchup with the Big Ten and SEC going at it in the matchup and Duke should also be getting a solid bowl matchup after having a great season and winning their division in the ACC. UCLA will be in the mix for one of the better Pac-12 bowl games and teams like Iowa, Missouri as well as Northern Illinois and Oregon should get into some solid games as well.
