Organized Chaos

Florida State will play Wisconsin in the Dec. 27 Champs Sports Bowl. It doesn’t have the luster of the BCS, but hey, at least the Seminoles have a chance to win nine games in a season for the first time in four years.

This is a major contrast in styles. FSU emphasizes speed, while Wisconsin likes to run the football with a bruising offensive line and an even tougher running back.

FSU was passed over earlier in the week for the Gator Bowl and the Chick-fil-A Bowl.

All 10 of the Atlantic Coast Conference bowl-eligible teams were selected. The ACC has tie-ins with only nine bowls, but any team can fill a slot in another bowl left vacant if that particular league doesn’t have enough teams that qualified.

Wake Forest will be the first team to play, as the Demon Deacons face Navy in the EagleBank Bowl Dec. 20 in Washington, D.C. This is a rematch of a Sept. 27 game won by Navy 24-17.

Virginia Tech was the only ACC team to play in the BCS. The Hokies earned the automatic berth into the BCS with the win over Boston College in Saturday’s championship game. No other ACC teams were even close to sniffing the BCS, but it was good to see the 10 teams advance to the postseason.

Here’s the ACC bowl schedule:

EagleBank Bowl
Wake Forest vs. Navy
Washington, D.C. - RFK Stadium
Dec. 20, 11 a.m. ESPN

Champs Sports
Wisconsin vs. Florida State
Orlando - Florida Citrus Bowl
Dec. 27, 4:30 p.m. ESPN

Emerald
Miami vs. California
San Francisco - AT&T Park
Dec. 27, 8 p.m. ESPN

Papajohns.com
NC State vs. Rutgers
Birmingham, Ala. - Legion Field
Dec. 29, 3 p.m. ESPN

Roady’s Humanitarian
Maryland vs. Nevada
Boise, Idaho - Bronco Stadium
Dec. 30, 4:30 p.m. ESPN

Gaylord Hotels Music City
Boston College vs. Vanderbilt
Nashville, Tenn. - LP Field
Dec. 31, 3:30 p.m. ESPN

Chick-fil-A
LSU vs. Georgia Tech
Atlanta - Georgia Dome
Dec. 31, 7:30 p.m. ESPN

Capital One
Georgia vs. Michigan State
Orlando - Florida Citrus Bowl
Jan. 1, 2009, 1 p.m. ABC

Konica Minolta Gator
Clemson vs. Nebraska
Jacksonville - Jacksonville Municipal Stadium
Jan. 1, 2009, 1 p.m. CBS

Orange
Cincinnati vs. Virginia Tech
Miami - Dolphin Stadium
Jan. 1, 2009, 8:30 p.m. FOX

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