Big East to host a Conference Championship game?

• Emmett Brown

  

  http://bleacherreport.com/articles/314164-big-east-to-host-a-conference-championship-game-in-2011
  
  The article says the Big East winner could play the Mountain West winner. I think this would be a good idea. With the possibility of Pitt leaving the Big East they could lose their automatic bid by 2011.
• jordo212000

  

  Crap, this is literally what I just posted on the Pittsburgh to the Big 10 thread. Haha
• eersandbeers

  It would cure the BCS committee's problem of the Mountain West winner not receiving an automatic bid. Even this will not save the conference though.
  
  
  Also, who owns bleacherreport? These people are throwing out a lot of rumors for what appears to be just a blog.
• ytownfootball

  

  eersandbeers wrote: It would cure the BCS committee's problem of the Mountain West winner not receiving an automatic bid. Even this will not save the conference though.

  Curing the problem with the MWAC? I'm not sure the BCS would recognize a MWAC winner of a Big East Championship game that included the two as "The Big East Champion"? As it's being brought up I'm sure it's been researched?
• eersandbeers

  ytownfootball wrote:

  eersandbeers wrote: It would cure the BCS committee's problem of the Mountain West winner not receiving an automatic bid. Even this will not save the conference though.

  Curing the problem with the MWAC? I'm not sure the BCS would recognize a MWAC winner of a Big East Championship game that included the two as "The Big East Champion"? As it's being brought up I'm sure it's been researched?

  
  I don't really understand your post.
  
  If the two conferences basically created an alliance and played a conference championship game, they would send hte winner to the BCS game. Which could end the rumblings from people who say the Mountain West needs an automatic bid.
• ytownfootball

  

  The BCS has a CONTRACT to have the Big East champion as a representative. I'm sure it doesn't include a rep of the MWAC in any form whether it be the result of an alliance between the two or not.
• eersandbeers

  I believe that contract is only good through 2011 so they are going to need to do something to save it before then.
• ytownfootball

  

  Everything I find says that 2013 is the year current AQ are continuing through. After the 2011 season, they will evaluate to see if any additional conferences will be added.
  

  The champions of the Atlantic Coast, Big East, Big 10, Big 12, Pac-10 and Southeastern Conferences will have annual automatic qualification for a BCS game after the regular seasons of 2008 through 2013, based on mathematical standards of performance during the 2004-2007 regular seasons.
  
  The 2008-2011 regular seasons will be evaluated under the same standards to determine if other conferences will have annual automatic qualification for the games after the 2012 and 2013 regular seasons. The champions of no more than seven conferences will have annual automatic berths.

  http://www.collegefootballpoll.com/bcs_selection_procedures.html
  
  The way I see it, this "alliance" will have to pass through the BCS for approval and I don't see it happening honestly.