Re: Oregon over Oklahoma please
If they cared about that we would have never EVER have given the Big Least/AAC an AQ status after the big boys bailed. Remember UCONN in the Fiesta bowl? And that wasn't a Final Four site in Tempe. You think they are stoked about UCF. They can wipe their rears with this rule.ESPN could press selection rule 5D to induce an Oregon selection but seeing how their mouthpieces are already speaking the Bama-Oklahoma word I am not optimistic. Rule 5d states that the BCS, committees, and ESPN can modify the selections for the best interest of the product.
The reality is that the BCS has gotten really good at giving us nothing but a championship game to watch each year. The television value and true fan interest in these non-championship games have been so poor overall recently. Non-BCS games have provided more interesting matchups than the BCS quite a bit too often for being "top tier bowls."
If bowl system was really about the football product first, we'd get Oregon. Since it is about almost every single thing other than the game first, we're getting a undeserved 2nd bid to the Big-12.