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Originally Posted by Passacaglia
Interesting. I wonder what "the second BCS slot" means.
I mean, the Big Ten only sends one team to the BCS, right? As far as we know? And, what if there are two 8-0 teams and a 7-0 team? That could still happen, couldn't it?
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Overanalysis.
Go back a few years to the Missouri screwjob, when they got passed over for Kansas by the Orange Bowl - Oklahoma had the automatic berth by virtue of the conference championship, Kansas received an at-large, and Missouri dropped to the Cotton Bowl because no BCS conference can send more than two teams to a BCS bowl.
What they're saying is that an ND/Texas who went 7-0 would be (probably contractually required) to be the second bid out of the Big Ten if any bowl wished to take a second Big Ten team.
Not that going 7-0 would guarantee them a spot in one of those bowls. Guaranteeing the spot would probably require the assent of the other major conferences, and I can't see them locking into that.