SEC making the Gator Bowl play the waiting game

After parting ways with the Big East earlier this year after a 13-year relationship, the Gator Bowl is carrying an offer from the Big Ten in one pocket and a tentative arrangement with the ACC in the other.
However, the bowl committee will not finalize anything until they hear back from the SEC.
According to the Birmingham News, the committee would really like to see a Big Ten-SEC match-up. "We're not going to move at all until we know what their parameters are because it doesn't make sense to do that," bowl president Rick Catlett said. "If you get an opportunity to do an SEC-Big Ten deal, you at least wait and see what the offer will be."
There are, however, some hurdles that need to be cleared before an arrangement is made with the SEC, as the News explains.
Catlett said the delay in finalizing bowls across the country has been frustrating for some partners, but "you don't want to make a mistake."
The Gator won't go to the SEC for its 6th pick every year. That means the Gator would have to jump existing SEC partners the Capital One, Cotton, Outback or Chick-fil-A bowls, unless the conference would rotate picks among several bowls.
If a new bowl is added to the SEC, a current partner would probably be booted. At the bottom of the current SEC pecking order are the Liberty Bowl, Independence Bowl and Birmingham's Papajohns.com Bowl. The SEC Rocks!