The rich get richer, Rose and Sugar Bowls to host first semifinal games in 2015

When college football’s postseason shifts to a four-team playoff model in the 2014 season, the Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl will host the first semifinal games on January 1, 2015. Conference commissioners met Tuesday, as they generally do the day after the BCS Championship Game each season, to begin putting together some of the plans for the four-team playoff model that will in a sense do away with the BCS era. Semifinal games were previously reported to be rotated between current BCS games such as the Rose, Sugar and Orange Bowls while the site of the new championship game will be bid on in similar fashion to the Super Bowl, with cities placing the bids as opposed to existing bowl games. News of the Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl hosting the first semifinal games should come as little surprise, with each bowl game having the backing of the top two power conferences in the game, the Big Ten and SEC. Under the new format the Rose and Sugar Bowls will remain a fixture on January 1 (or Janu...