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Originally Posted by Skipaway
Why should people care the reason for what team to be in which conference?
I do agree that it would be great if there could be separate levels for uber awesome BCS teams and non BCS teams though.
Maybe a relegation system would satisfy your complaint about how the world is not fair, but honestly why should people really bother? There are lots of schools in even lower divisions, and not like that's bad for them. They probably lose less money.
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But all those lesser divisions they all at least have a shot at the national championship if they put together a good season through the playoffs. As it stands now, TCU has a 10-1 season and gets stuck playing in the Houston Bowl vs an also-ran 7-4 Iowa State team and the only reason they even get that chance is that the SEC didn't have 8 bowl eligible teams. If not for that, they'd be stuck in an even worse bowl. Some type of relegation system in which teams could either earn their way into a BCS conferences or conferences themselves were promoted or relegated would be great as well, just as long as there's hope for the teams of these other 5 conferences.
Also, with TCU, at least you're talking about a school that possesses 2 national championships in D1-A history, something only about 20 football programs can claim. It's not like you're talking Florida International who just moved up from D1-AA. Because honestly, how can you defend Baylor, Duke, Wake Forest, Illinois, Indiana, Syracuse, and Washington and the others are anymore deserving of all that BCS money than TCU, Boise State, Fresno State, etc. I don't think you can make a strong case that those schools deserve to rake in something like 3+ mil for their football performances from bowl payouts to their conference mates, meanwhile TCU et al have to survive on the scraps and yet remarkably are still able to compete even with the serious disadvantages. Imagine if they were given the opportunity to recruit as a BCS team and have that extra BCS money.