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jay santos · 10-20-2008, 09:38 PM

When we're having anger towards the BCS system, let's remember where it started.

The big bowls: Orange, Rose, Cotton, Sugar (then Fiesta replaced Cotton) had major conference tie-ins and never invited non-BCS teams. The at-large bids were usually offered a month before the season was out, to ensure they had big name school. So not only did non-BCS teams not make it, but we also commonly had bad bowl matchups.

BYU's never being invited to a BCS bowl doesn't just go back to 1995 or whenever the BCS was started. It goes all the way to when these bowls were created.

The BCS, as bad as it is, was an upgrade on the crappy bowl system that existed before.

10-20-2008, 09:38 PM	#1
jay santos Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 6,177	BCS history When we're having anger towards the BCS system, let's remember where it started. The big bowls: Orange, Rose, Cotton, Sugar (then Fiesta replaced Cotton) had major conference tie-ins and never invited non-BCS teams. The at-large bids were usually offered a month before the season was out, to ensure they had big name school. So not only did non-BCS teams not make it, but we also commonly had bad bowl matchups. BYU's never being invited to a BCS bowl doesn't just go back to 1995 or whenever the BCS was started. It goes all the way to when these bowls were created. The BCS, as bad as it is, was an upgrade on the crappy bowl system that existed before.