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It's very tough for non BCS schools to make the BCS as they have to overcome a recruiting disadvantage with BCS teams and thanks to Hawaii this year there will be doubts about the strength of schedule of non BCS teams
I've said this before, and I have a plan for this, but make 8 conferences, get rid of the B_$, and let each conference champion be admitted to get a chance at the NC. If a team can be good enough to win its conference, it should get a chance to win it all. Teams like BYU who keep winning their conference, then have to play some lowly PAC-10 team, never get a real chance to compete with another champion.
The love of $ will not end anytime soon, thanks to overrated football conferences such as the PAC 10 and BIG 10.
For all the naysayers who are constantly trashing the MWC and WAC, get a life. Find a BCS conference blog to troll so you can read about teams you do find "worthy."
Whoever the author was, I agree with his call on the BCS to call the Big 10 and PAC 10 and Rose Bowl's collective bluff and say, fine, if you don't want into a playoff, we'll hold it without you.
You're dead wrong, whether or not they could compete has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with it. It has nothing to do with tradition either. It has to do with money and greed, end of story!
The reason the Big10 is so demanding is that they pretty much invented football as we know it! Think of the mid-western teams of the 1930s through the 60s and they were dominant. Where was the demanding discussion by now mid-major universities back then to increase football stature? That's when this all started and so to hope that that would change immediately is very short-sighted. The Pac10 changed and joined that club, which is why they're sitting where they are now.
The most we can hope for is modest changes to the system over the next 40 years and hope that, in the process, mid-majors can CONSISTENTLY show they belong!
Selous Scout - There are 119 BCS Series Teams, 65 of which are represented by BCS Conferences. That leaves out the 54 "nobodies" like my Cougs. The interesting thing is that there are only about 40 teams which are consistently "bowl-eligible," and those teams should always be in contention to win it all, regardless of their conference. Besides, it doesn't matter if you're in the Big XII if your name is Baylor, right?
Without the BigTen/Pac10, none of the other four BCS conferences could legitimately lay claim to a national championship without a serious asterisk. You know, "we won the BCS national Championship, but that undefeated USC team that creamed everyone they faced and won the Rose Bowl might have been a worthy opponent, but they exist in their own separate arrangement with the BigTen..." will just not fly with anyone. They would all rather deal with the imperfections and unfairness of the current system than risk having a playoff of questionable legitimacy missing the USC's, OSU's, and Michigans that traditionally compete for top rankings.