S-E-C commish suggests BCS should consider dropping 2-team-per-conference limit

[ssckelley]

As for BCS games, you know if they go to 3 teams /league,that the SEC will be guaranteed 3 BCS bids every single year. The Big Ten will occasionally get 3. When Iowa wins the Legends this year at 9-3 (6-2),and then loses in the Title game to finish 9-4,will they get a BCS bid? Doubt it. Will Nebraska at 9-3(5-3)? Maybe.

The Big Ten will be lucky to get 2 BCS bids this year and it would take a Nebraska or Iowa to make a run in the Legends to get it done or an upset in the championship game. There is little chance Iowa gets in the top 15 of the BCS standings at 9-4. This year the SEC and B12 are the dominate leagues and quite frankly those are the teams that deserve the bids. But in most years the Big Ten is going to have 3 or 4 solid teams that could be BCS eligible. You take the champion, the runner up, and sometimes whoever finishes 2nd in either division.

 

[GhostofBTT]

I'd rather have three or four SEC teams in the BCS than watching UConn play Oklahoma or crap like that. The only problem is, of course, the SEC would just get more money.

 

[HawkForce]

I would be fine with that....the conferences that would most often get a third team are the BIG and SEC.

Granted last year our 3rd team would have been MSU and Alabama and the Hawks exposed them for what they were last year (even though I really like Cousins, they were the worst 11-1 team in Big Ten history imo.)

 

[briankaldenberg]

Year in and year out the SEC deserves to have 3 teams in BCS bowls. Not so much for the other conferences.

 

[GhostofBTT]

Year in and year out the SEC deserves to have 3 teams in BCS bowls. Not so much for the other conferences.

 

[silvanthalas]

Just as now, the B1G & SEC will benefit from this the most, in fact I'd say they'd be the only two conferences that would.

Odds are though that the SEC would just get 3 teams to the BCS every year, whether it's deserve or not, and the Big Ten never would, whether it's deserved or not.

 

[ThunderHawk]

I think WVU gets in, eventually ... who else are they going to take if not Missouri?

WVU has more fans than Louisville or Cincinnati.
ACC schools are unlikely to jump ship with the new $20M barrier.
East Carolina? Memphis? La Tech? Tulane? Houston? TCU?
all of them < WVU

Plus, West Virginia is full of redneck hillbilly hicks who'll fit right in with the rest of the Confederate conference.

 

[HawkeyeMike23]

Radio guys down here are kind of silly. But they don't talk about if, but when. The teams they talk about mostly? FSU, UNC, Missou.

I thought your inside sources told you all the conferences were in collusion and superconferences were all a done deal already? What happened there?

 

[ssckelley]

There are so many thread around discussing conference expansion why does it need to be discussed here? The topic is whether to drop the 2 team limit for the BCS bowls.

/takes forum cop hat off