Well, now. This is different.
Let’s ignore the landscape this week — there is no longer a reasonable path into the College Football Playoff for the Pac-12 — and instead take a gander at the non-semifinal portion of the New Year’s Six.
For the Pac-12 champion, it’s all about the Fiesta, Cotton or Peach bowls; each has two at-large slots available.
(The Orange Bowl is locked up with the ACC, Big Ten, Notre Dame and SEC.)
Once it has picked and seeded the semifinalists, the selection committee will create the NY6 pairings using the following considerations:
Geography (i.