NIU is in because they are the highest-ranked non-AQ conference champ AND are ranked higher than two AQ conference champs - Wisconsin and Louisville. The BCS selection rules stipulate that such a team get an at-large berth. Blame the Big East and Big 10, Congress, and even the BCS powers that be (including the bowl committees), but NIU is blameless and, under the rules, deserving; and assuming the report is true, the Orange Bowl rep is a classless clown who, I hope, will no longer be an Orange Bowl rep after this display.