While a lot of the folks here get really hot and bothered over this entire conspiracy theory, I'm not among them. Think about it: how many times can you name that the SEC deserved more than one team in the BCS title game when it was only two teams? Note that the loss total is at the end of the regular season not including the bowl game (as that would not have been counted).
PRE-SEC DOMINANCE
1998 - Tennessee unbeaten, Florida lost to Tennessee (given that UCLA and K-State were unbeaten, no dice)
1999 - Alabama and Tennessee each had two losses
2000 - Florida had two losses
2001 - Florida and Tennessee both had two losses, LSU (SEC champ) had three
2002 - Georgia had one loss (Miami and Ohio St were the right teams and played a classic)
2003 - LSU had one loss, Ole Miss had three
2004 - Auburn unbeaten, UGA two losses
2005 - Auburn, Georgia, Alabama, and LSU each had two losses
SEC DOMINANCE PERIOD
2006 - Florida one loss, LSU and Auburn had two
2007 - LSU and UGA each had two losses, UGA did not win the East - but this is hard to argue since one-loss Kansas did not even make their title game, either. You can hardly justify taking BOTH UGA and LSU over Kansas
2008 - Florida and Alabama each had one loss (the real problem here is you'd be hard-pressed to take one-loss Alabama over one-loss Texas, OU, or USC. However, the Tide IS in the running here for a four seed)
2009 - Florida and Alabama were each unbeaten - this year is the best example where you could argue Florida would still deserve a top four seeding since they were two-time recent defending champions and had a better resume than Cincinnati or Boise or TCU
2010 - Auburn was unbeaten; everyone else had at least two losses
2011 - this is the point of contention but note that NOBODY disputed Alabama would have been in a four-team playoff, not even the biggest critics of the BCS
2012 - Alabama and Florida both had one loss; this was similar to 2011 in that UF did not play the SECCG because they lost one game to a one-loss UGA team
2013 - this was the potential disaster as well
What I'm saying is this: go over the history of the BCS and you can find maybe - MAYBE - five times in the last six years when two SEC teams "could" have made it. However, this is an aberration and let me tell you why: this six-year period coincides with Tennessee becoming a mediocrity, Vandy rising to heights, and both Arkansas and Auburn having split personalities (good this year, awful the next). When those three teams become more consistent and Vandy regresses, it will bring back the elimination aspect of SEC play.
In 2008, it would be very difficult to justify Alabama over Oklahoma, which wasn't done. Of course, if you have four teams then the fight breaks out. Who is a better choice? Texas, who controversially was passed over for the Big 12 title game? Unbeaten Utah? Once-beaten Texas Tech? Alabama, who was number one much of the year and had led Florida going into the fourth quarter? Boise State?
2009 - Alabama and Texas are in. Does Florida get a spot? I think they do even after we drilled them.
2011 - LSU and Okie State are in. The other probables are Alabama and Stanford. If you keep Alabama out because of the division thing, there goes Oregon. Can we justify Wisconsin?
2012 - the amusing thing is that even with the aTm loss, we still make it as we were.
So I think this may be overblown. "Oh, they'll never let it happen." Well, you don't know how seasons will shake out. My one fear is them justifying a four loss B1G team over a one-loss non-division champ. But I doubt that will happen.
