If Oregon State wins out (Stanford and Oregon) they will be the Pac 10 champs, so they will get the automatic birth to the Rose Bowl. So, my question is, will the media darlings USC get a at large bid to a BCS bowl? Everybody expects the SEC and the Big 12 to put at least two teams in the BSC bowls, then you have a couple of non-BSC conference schools that will get at least one at large bid. By the way, I would absolutely love to see the mighty trojans playing in the Holiday bowl, or some shit like that.
In the end, it will come down to who will bring in the most money. TV ratings, travelling fanbase, fanbase with money.
It will probably look like this:
USC (at-large) vs Ohio St (at large) -Fiesta Bowl (Maybe Boise St)
Alabama (at-large) vs Texas (at-large) - Sugar Bowl
Miami, FL (ACC champ) vs Utah (Buster) - Orange Bowl
Penn St (Big 10 champ) vs Oregon St (Pac 10 champ) - Rose
Florida (SEC Champ #1) vs Oklahoma (Big 12 Champ) - NC
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Team-Selection Procedures
The bowls will select their participants from two pools: (1) automatic qualifiers, all of which must be selected, and, (2) at-large teams, if fewer than 10 teams qualify automatically. The following sequence will be used when establishing pairings:
1. The top two teams in the final BCS Standings will be placed in the National Championship Game ("NCG").
2. Unless they qualify to play in the NCG, the champions of selected conferences are contractually committed to host selected games:
Atlantic Coast Conference-Orange Bowl
Big Ten Conference-Rose Bowl
Big 12 Conference-Fiesta Bowl
Pac-10 Conference-Rose Bowl
Southeastern Conference-Sugar Bowl
3. If a bowl loses a host team to the NCG, then such bowl shall select a replacement team from among the automatic-qualifying teams and the at-large teams before any other selections are made. If two bowls lose host teams to the NCG, each bowl will get a replacement pick before any other selections are made. In such case, the bowl losing the No. 1 team gets the first replacement pick, and the bowl losing the No. 2 team gets the second replacement pick. If the Rose Bowl loses both the Big Ten and Pac-10 champions to the NCG, it will receive two replacement picks.
A bowl choosing a replacement team may not select any of the following:
A. A team in the NCG;
B. The host team for another BCS Bowl;
C. When two bowls lose host teams, then the bowl losing the number one team may not select a replacement team from the same conference as the number two team, unless the bowl losing the number two team consents.
4. After steps No. 1, 2 and 3 have been completed, any bowl with an unfilled slot shall select a team from the automatic qualifiers and/or at-large teams in the following order:
A. The bowl played on the date nearest to the National Championship Game (for 2009, Fiesta Bowl) will pick first;
B. The bowl played on the date second-nearest to the National Championship Game (for 2009, Sugar Bowl) will pick second;
C. The bowl hosting the game that is played in the time slot immediately after the Rose Bowl game (for 2009, Orange Bowl) will pick third.
The rotation noted in paragraphs A, B and C is as follows:
January 2007 games: Sugar, Orange, Fiesta
January 2008 games: Orange, Fiesta, Sugar
January 2009 games: Fiesta, Sugar, Orange
January 2010 games: Orange, Fiesta, Sugar
All teams earning automatic berths must be selected.
5. After completion of the selection process as described in Paragraph Nos. 1-4, the conferences and Notre Dame may, but are not required to, adjust the pairings taking into consideration the following:
A. whether the same team will be playing in the same bowl game for two consecutive years;
B. whether two teams that played against one another in the regular season will be paired against one another in a bowl game;
C. whether the same two teams will play against each other in a bowl game for two consecutive years; and
D. whether alternative pairings may have greater or lesser appeal to college football fans as measured by expected ticket sales for the bowls and by expected television interest, and the consequent financial impact on Fox and the bowls.
The pairings may not be altered by removing the Big 10 Champion or Pac-10 champion from the Rose Bowl.
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That is a direct quote from the BCS website, and I'm noticing that the Big East isn't mentioned. Aren't they an automatic tie-in?
Also, since the ACC sucks, their champ might not be ranked high enough in the long run which would allow for Boise St to get in.
This shit is too complicated.
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