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Although DEL college sports primarily use the normal DEL ranking system, the BCS bowl bids are determined using a BCS-like formula. A team's BCS ranking is based on three factors:
Each component is measured by team-by-team comparisons. For the standard ranking and writers' poll, this is based on the probability that one team is better than the other. For the coaches' poll, this is based on the fraction of coaches who placed one team ahead of the other on the ballot. There are ten BCS bowl bids, of which six are given to the champions of the six major (Tier I) conferences.
The other four are at-large bids and are given out as follows, in order of priority:
CCEL has never needed to use the last option; allowing a third team per conference has always allowed the league to fill the number of BCS slots. Note that the BCS ranking orders are strictly used for giving preference in cases in which the BCS committee (in real-life) would have discretion to select any available BCS team.
The two highest-ranked conference champions play for the national championship in the Dolphin Bowl. The other four conference champions are placed into the bowls according to their conference tie-ins:
Of the at-large teams, the first selection goes to the bowl that lost the #1 team to the Dolphin Bowl and the second selection goes to the bowl with the #2 team. In each case, an at-large team from the same conference would be selected if the conference has a BCS at-large team. If this is not possible, the highest-ranked BCS at-large team that would not create a rematch is selected. The final bowl selections are the at-large berths of the Fiesta Bowl and Sugar Bowl. These split the two remaining at-large teams. If one ordering is necessary in order to avoid a rematch, this is done. If not, the Fiesta Bowl gets the team with the higher BCS ranking.
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