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Palpie said:
No espin wanted osu for the eyeballs. Maybe in a normal year they go with their preferred sec narrative, but in 2020 they need eyeballs and were gonna put the 4 teams with the most fans/haters that they could fit in.
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CBS Sports ranks the games, which are televised by ABC/ESPN; Alabama/Notre Dame isn't even #2 (very interesting).....

Ranking the 2020 college football bowl games, 28-1: Sugar, Cotton, Boca Raton among major highlights

Not all bowl games are created equal, and we prove that by ranking every single one on this year's slate

1. Sugar semifinal: (2) Clemson vs. (3) Ohio State
Jan. 1, 8 p.m.: Listen, I will take all the Clemson and Ohio State games you want to give me. Last year's semifinal in the Fiesta Bowl was one of the games of the year. The 2014 Orange Bowl was pretty great, too. The 2016 Fiesta Bowl, not so much! But while everybody wants to argue about whether Ohio State deserves this playoff spot -- and there are sound arguments on both sides -- all I care about is getting to watch this game.

It's a battle between the two quarterbacks many believe will be the first two names called at the NFL Draft in Trevor Lawrence and Justin Fields. It's a battle of two programs that have been at the top of their sport for most of the decade and churn out elite talent every single season. And if all that's not enough for you, there's plenty of extra spice thanks to Clemson coach Dabo Swinney. Not only was Dabo openly campaigning against Ohio State's case for a playoff berth, but he put the Buckeyes at No. 11 on his latest Coaches Poll ballot.

Considering Dabo's ability to find perceived slights against his team in anything said (or not said) about his team, what do you think Ryan Day and the Buckeyes will be able to do with that kind of motivation? It's called the Sugar Bowl, but there's going to be more salt than anything this year in what should be the best game of Bowl Season.

2. Cotton: (7) Florida vs. (6) Oklahoma
Dec. 30, 8 p.m. -- Get ready for some points to be scored. This is an odd situation for those of us who have followed this sport for a long time. It wasn't that long ago when the argument you heard was that the Big 12 wasn't real football because nobody played defense and that the "real football" was played in the SEC because defense wins championships. Now, here we are in a time when the most explosive offenses in the country are in the SEC, and it's Oklahoma that has the better defense in a bowl matchup against an SEC team.

The Gators have lost three times this year, but one of them was a fluky loss, another came on the road by three to Texas A&M early in the season, and the third involved putting a scare into Alabama that not many other teams are capable of doing. Oklahoma is a team that was impacted by the strange nature of the 2020 season. It lost two of its first three games in part because it had a young, inexperienced QB who didn't have an offseason to prepare him for the regular season. However, after that 1-2 start, the Sooners began playing much better football and will come into this game having won seven straight. They'll be up against a Florida team that might genuinely be one of the country's four best teams. This isn't a College Football Playoff game, but it will feel like one.

3. Rose semifinal (1) Alabama vs. (4) Notre Dame
Jan. 1, 4 p.m. -- How exciting a game this is will come down to which Notre Dame shows up. The Fighting Irish were beat soundly by Clemson in the ACC Championship, and that dredged up the old narrative about Notre Dame in big games. It's a narrative based on Alabama crushing it in the 2012 BCS Championship Game. What's often ignored is that even though Clemson crushed the Irish 30-3 in the 2018 College Football Playoff semifinals to add to that narrative, the same Clemson team went on to beat Alabama 44-16 a week later. It also ignores that Notre Dame beat Clemson earlier this season.

Still, Alabama is something entirely different. There is a realistic chance that this Alabama team has three Heisman Trophy finalists in QB Mac Jones, RB Najee Harris and WR DeVonta Smith. It is an absolute matchup nightmare for every team in the country, and Notre Dame has a high mountain to climb. But I promise you, this Notre Dame team is not the 2012 team that Alabama crushed. It's better. It's just, this 2020 Alabama team is better than that 2012 Alabama team, too. It's not only second in the country in points scored per game at 49.7, it's only allowed more than 24 points to any opponent twice this season. That's how you go 11-0 and win your games by an average of 30.3 points.

4. Peach: (9) Georgia vs. (8) Cincinnati
Jan. 1, 12 p.m. -- Let's get our story straight right now. If Cincinnati wins this game, it does not prove that the Bearcats deserved a College Football Playoff berth and were screwed over by the CFP Selection Committee. It just means that Georgia "didn't want to be there." Now, if Georgia wins the game, then it's proof that Cincinnati didn't even belong in the conversation, and anybody who thought it did was just another deluded fool who "doesn't understand football." Got it? If you have any questions, ask them now because I don't want any confusion later.

Seriously, though, this is a matchup I find quite interesting. Cincinnati is genuinely a good football team, and while I don't think it would have had a prayer of beating Alabama, I feel that way about generally everybody but maybe two teams. Georgia is a good team as well, and it's been better since making the switch to J.T. Daniels at QB. I know I joked around about the narratives that will surround this game afterward, and there will be plenty more beforehand, but my advice is to just go in expecting a good college football game. Odds are you're going to get one.
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Entire article: https://www.cbssports.com/college-f...gar-cotton-boca-raton-among-major-highlights/
 
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