Helluva nice deal for the non-BCS conference teams....

[Van]

In lieu of anything meaningful, this is nevertheless a fairly decent bone just thrown their way....

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=4359924

Non-BCS teams to get vacated bids

CHICAGO -- Some tweaking to the Bowl Championship Series rules gives greater access to the Rose Bowl to teams outside the six conferences with automatic BCS bids -- such as Utah.

"Under certain circumstances, they can play their way into the Rose Bowl, which hasn't been true in the past," Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany said Monday at Big Ten media day. "That's additional access. Standards have been, I think, lightened to access the BCS."

The Big Ten and Pacific-10 champions are contractually bound to play in the Rose Bowl unless one of those teams qualifies for the national championship game.

Starting with the 2010 season and running through the 2013 season, the first time the Rose Bowl loses one of its conference champions and a team from one of the non-automatic qualifying leagues earns a BCS bid, the Rose Bowl must take that team.

Since the BCS was implemented in 1998, a team from a conference outside the automatic qualifying leagues has never played in the Rose Bowl.

The Big Ten, Big East, Big 12, Atlantic Coast Conference, Southeastern Conference and Pac-10 champions receive automatic bids to the five BCS games.

The champions from the Mountain West Conference -- where Utah plays -- Western Athletic Conference, Conference USA, Sun Belt and Mid-American Conference do not get automatic entry into the big-money BCS games, but can play their way in. The Utes, Hawaii and Boise State from the WAC have done that in recent years.



So, as long as USC or Ohio St go to the title game, any BCS bowl game recipient from a non-BCS conference automatically gets the most watched, most prestigious BCS bowl bid.

IIRC, the Rose Bowl also pays the most out of all the non-title game bowls, though I may be wrong there. They may all pay equally.

It still irks the fuck outta me that Jim Delany is announcing this, rather than an actual rep from the Rose Bowl. This Delany fuckcrinkle is the Rose Bowl, goddammit.

When will he ever die?

[Blueblood]

Not going to call a glass dick on you, but maybe a glass dick on ESPN.com. This was reported something like a month ago.


The Rose Bowl stopped being the Rose Bowl when it became part of the BCS.

I'm ready for the PAC 10 to join the crowd and drop a conference game for a cream puff tune up since that gets us closer to the BCS goals.

Even if you don't care, the players do, and they are putting more on the table than we are!

[Mr T]

The Rose Bowl stopped being the Rose Bowl when it became part of the BCS.

How's that?

Most Rose Bowl Wins All-Time:
1. USC
2. Michigan
3. Washington
4. Ohio St.
5. Stanford
6. UCLA
7. Alabama

[Blueblood]

The Rose Bowl stopped being the Rose Bowl when it became part of the BCS.

How's that?

Most Rose Bowl Wins All-Time:
1. USC
2. Michigan
3. Washington
4. Ohio St.
5. Stanford
6. UCLA
7. Alabama

Why did we let the south back in after they got ass-fucked ? The worst thing this country has EVER done.

The Rose Bowl stopped being the Rose Bowl when it became part of the BCS.

When dealing in the "College Football Forum" you know right off the bat you're not dealing with the sharpest tools in the shed.





the truth

[Mr T]

Why did we let the south back in after they got ass-fucked ? The worst thing this country has EVER done.

I am guessing you were a history major? The south was trying to leave but the north didnt want to let all that southern speed go.

The Rose Bowl stopped being the Rose Bowl when it became part of the BCS.

When dealing in the "College Football Forum" you know right off the bat you're not dealing with the sharpest tools in the shed.

When it became part of the BCS, it open the door for other teams besides the Pac10 and Big10 in. I am guessing that is why your vagina hurts about it.

But the history lesson was Bama has more wins than you in the Rose, so why the fuck do you care?