Bowls Used in the EBS

The Enhanced Bowl Season (EBS) tournament utilizes existing bowls to host games in the tournament. First-round games are held at four geographically-diverse bowls taken from a slate of 12 pre-selected host bowls. Each of these 12 bowls hosts an EBS tournament game every three years. Quarterfinal games are hosted annually by the Capital One and Cotton Bowls, as well as either the Rose and Sugar Bowls or the Fiesta and Orange Bowls. Semifinal matchups are held at whichever pair of bowls was not used for quarterfinal sites (either Rose/Sugar or Fiesta/Orange). Finally, the National Title Game is held at a rotating site that may or may not be the site of a previous bowl used for the previous EBS games that year.
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Team Assignment to Bowls

Teams are always placed in their first bowl game with preference given to the higher seeded team. For first round matchups, ease of travel for fans is of primary concern. For quarterfinal games, teams receiving byes are placed to as best as possible maintain traditional bowl alliances.
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