Big Gain;568119 wrote:UNDEFEATED Boise State and TCU. Higher ranked than Ohio State in the Final BCS Poll, who many think are better than any team in the country.
And only the higher ranked of them is guaranteed a BCS spot, the other one will need to be selected by a BCS bowl as an at-large. The bowls don't care about fairness, they care about money, and neither one of those teams will bring in as much money as Stanford, OSU, and LSU will. And don't complain that it's not fair because before the BCS neither of those teams would have had the opportunity to play in any of the four BCS bowl games and likely would have ended up playing sometime in late December. The BCS gives them the opportunity to qualify for a major bowl.
What should happen is the Big East should admit how awful they are and how undeserving they are of a BCS bowl birth this year and let all five of these teams (Boise, TCU, OSU, LSU, and Stanford) play in BCS bowls. They really need to put in some rule that your conference champion must win 9 games or be ranked in the top 16 or 25 or something in the final BCS bowl or they lose their automatic bid for that year and can only get in if a bowl chooses them as an at-large. This year no bowl will take the Big East champion unless they have to.