BCS officials want to lend stability to new system

[cpawstoney]

“I don’t think any of us are happy that the BCS is one of the contributing factors to conference realignment,” BCS Executive Director Bill Hancock said Monday... To the extent that the BCS can be a part of lending stability to the conferences, I think that’s what everybody would like to see.”

The current BCS TV and bowl contracts run through the 2013 season. Beyond that nothing about the BCS is a given.

Hancock said “everything under the sun” is open for discussion, including eliminating automatic-qualifying conferences or changing the amount of at-large bids.

Hancock said he’s “not hearing any ground swell of support” for a playoff system.

“The BCS is so misunderstood,” he said. “It was created to match up No. 1 vs. No. 2. And because of the way the critics have reacted to it, it has become more than that. It was never intended to be anything more than that. And in our minds, it’s not anything more than that. And it has been so successful in doing what it’s supposed to do it’s worth preserving and worth fighting for.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/colleges/bcs-officials-will-replace-former-penn-state-president-as-oversight-committee-chair-soon/2011/11/14/gIQAzXNDMN_story.html

[Rational Cat]

Once the big boys have arranged the conferences to their personal liking, then the BCS (and the conferences) will do all they can do to stabilize them where they are.

That's how I read this.

[bearcat25]

This makes me fully understand the BCS. It is designed to place #1 vs #2 to crown a champion. The other BCS bowls are consolation prizes. So, if this will continue to be the case, the only think that may change is either 1, adding another bowl (Cotton?), awarding a BCS bid to MWC/CUSA or some other, and having 3 "at large" births....or 2, leaving as is.

The "Big Boys" will pitch their b!tch about the Big East not deserving a bid, but I don't think I will get very far. No Big East team has ever played in the BCS national title game (although we were close), so what is their gripe?

The system seems to be working just fine if you ask me.

[JDBEARCAT]

Eliminate other conferences(Beast), add more teams that qualify for BCS bowl games from the same conference(currently 2) boils down to - PURE FRICKN' GREED!

[Lobot]

Nothing will happen with the status quo even after 2013 because it would likely violate ESPN's TV contract with the BCS. So once again a big middle finger to ESPN from me.

[cpawstoney]

Possible changes in BCS may impact BYU

There's a chance that AQ bids could go away. How could this affect BYU, which is mulling a move to the Big East?

"Conferences such as the Big East, which are in danger of losing their AQ status, are trying to recruit successful football programs — Boise State, for example — to improve their standing," Wojciechowski writes. "But according to a conference official familiar with the content of the BCS meetings, the Big East would be affected by any model that forces the league to forfeit its AQ standing.

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705394568/Blue-roundup-Possible-changes-in-BCS-may-impact-BYU.html