Comments about ‘MWC football: Mountain West not in BCS plans for now’

You're forgetting one important player, the Cotton Bowl. For many years, the Cotton Bowl was one of the premier New Years Day bowls. With a brand new stadium in Dallas, the Cotton Bowl is pressing to be included in the BCS mix. Adding a 5th BCS Bowl wouldn't be that difficult and could clear the way to include two more conferences as automatic qualifiers.

MWC is having a great year, no doubt.
Article correctly points out that that needs to happen consistantly before the conference will get national and BCS recognition.
Take care of business one week and one season at a time and good things will follow.

In the meantime it will help to toughen out of conference scheduling and quit whining.

The MWC should add a few solid football schools to help facilitate becoming a permanent member of the BCS. The most logical choice is Boise State.

The criteria for adding schools would include the size of the school's TV market and the quality of the football program. Other top choices include Tulsa, Fresno, Nevada, San Jose. The MWC should also cinsider dropping Wyoming and Colorado St. given their poor track record and tiny TV markets.

OK MWC, ti's time to step up and take care of business over the next three/four seasons. If we do that then they'll have to seriously think about adding us to the BCS mix. If we go back to mediocrity the next seasons and if we lose our non-conference games as we've done in the past then there's no chance they'll pick us up!

Adding new schools to the mix will only dillute the progress we've made in the past 10 years and won't add much of any value.

There are already five BCS Bowl games. Adding the Cotton Bowl would make six.

Also, someone mentioned getting rid of Wyoming and Colorado State. That will never happen since they are charter members of the MWC.

The BCS is made up of all 11 FBS Conferences. This means it's no longer the exclusive fraternity it once was. Threats of antitrust lawsuits and congressional intervention put a stop to the exclusivity the BCS once was. It is entirely possible for the MWC to gain an Automatic Qualification. In fact, according to BCS criteria, if the MWC were to outperform, say, the Big East over that 4 year periord, the BCS would be forced to either add the MWC or drop the Big East as an AQ Conference. If the MWC were to finish ahead of any of the other five, then they would be guaranteed an AQ since the BCS could not drop any of the other five since they all have contracts with the BCS Bowls. The Big East does not.

yes it's all about the money/tv markets.

I agree with SLCguy, it's all about money. We are just too small of a market to be included in the mix. The only way that we will be able to be somewhat tantalizing to the BCS is if (I know it's a long shot) San Diego State starts winning. They have the largest market next to BYU. The addtion of TCU a few years back was a good move because that gave us some of them Texas TV sets. Mark my words, if SDSU starts winning we would see a lot more publicity because of all the money to be had in southern california.

Currently, there are four BCS bowls, plus the National Championship game, which is rotated among the four bowls every year:

Rose Bowl
Fiesta Bowl
Sugar Bowl
Orange Bowl

Adding the Cotton Bowl, would add a 5th bowl to the BCS mix.

The BCS should drop the silly automatic qualifier criteria and award an automatic bid to any conference champion that finishes in the Top 16. The BCS should also drop the silly "only two teams from any conference" rule. If there are 3 BCS worthy teams in the Big 12, but none in the ACC or Big East, too bad. If their champ doesn't finish in the Top 16, their conference doesn't deserve a BCS bid.

It may take a class-action lawsuit or a congressional investigation, but eventually the BCS will crack and be forced to level the bid selection process for all conferences.

A playoff is coming; it's just a matter of time.

One small reason why I now have some respect for Barack Obama. When asked what one change he would make in the sports world, he said "COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFF." Keep it simple is my advice: 8 conference champions. NO 2nd place teams. 6 sites needed, just use the current sites, along with Dallas and either Atlanta, Orlando, or San Diego. Play December 24th, January 1st, and January 8th. Keep the other bowls, as only one from a conference would go in this system.

It's much easier to add a team to a conference than to kick a team out of a conference.

Conferences have governing rules that each team agrees, by contract, to follow. Unless a team violates those rules, it would be very difficult to force a team out of the conference without a huge legal mess. Wyoming or San Diego State would certainly sue the MWC for millions if any attempt was made to force them out of the conference.

Adding a team, like Boise State, is the only realistic way of altering the makeup of the conference.

Obama wants a playoff, he will make it happen, GO Barack destroy the rich and the BCS!

There are already five BCS bowls. Adding the Cotton Bowl would bring the total to six.

There already are 5 BCS games:

Jan. 1, 2009 Orange Bowl
Jan. 1, 2009 Rose Bowl
Jan. 2, 2009 Sugar Bowl
Jan. 5, 2009 Fiesta Bowl
Jan. 8, 2009 BCS National Championship Game (in Miami)

Adding the Cotton Bowl would make 6, not 5...

And, really, this is all just wishful thinking. The BCS conferences have all the money, power, and prestige. No way are they going to share that unless they have to. And they don't....

Pray for a playoff!

Until the elitist SEC and ACC fans and alumni give up their view that they are the only real college football champs, then the BCS will continue to be a beauty pageant. We need a playoff system to determine College Football championship. You hear that, SEC? A playoff! You hear that Big 12, PAC 10, Big East, ACC? A playoff! Let them play it off on the field, not in your own minds. Hear that Herbstreit, Corso, and the rest of the BCS fan club? A playoff!!!

The MWC should add Bo Diddly Tech. They would likely be 4th through 6th every year.

forget conference champions, that rewards weak conferences.

take the best 12 or 16 teams, no matter what conference they come from.

weigh strength of schedule heavily, reward teams that are not afraid to play a tough schedule.

Finally, a sensible reason to support the guy! If only I'd known Barack made that insightful statement, I'd have voted for him for sure! His campaign staff was really slacking to not make that a key plank in BHO's platform and publicize it bigtime!

The campaign motto could be: "It's time for a change! Yes, we can!"

GO BHO and football playoffs!!!

Where is the NCAA in all this? In every other sport, the NCAA determines how the champion is selected. In division I football, they defer to something called the "BCS". It could be reasonably argued that currently there is NO college football champion, at least no NCAA champion.

When will the NCAA step up an take its rightful place? Or are they afraid that the power conferences will take their ball and go home?

Why else did we elect Obama if he isn't going to fix this BCS problem?

The National Championship game IS NOT a bowl.

Taken directly from the BCS site:

"The Bowl Championship Series (BCS) is a five-game arrangement for post-season college football that is designed to match the two top-rated teams in a national championship game and to create exciting and competitive matchups between eight other highly regarded teams in four other games.

The bowl games participating are the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl, FedEx Orange Bowl, Rose Bowl, Allstate Sugar Bowl and the BCS National Championship Game which will be played each year at one of the bowl sites."

The BCS will jump at the opportunity to add a 5th bowl paying $17 million per team. Whether that will open the door for the MWC or WAC to become an automatic qualifier is another matter.

It's all about the money...

Watch and learn...