I was going to say that, but didn't click on the post reply button.
(02-03-2015 06:22 PM)demiveeman Wrote: [ -> ]NBR 
Actually it is because Watts and the Carr Report pointed specifically to this in their faulty reasoning and it is obviously a consideration for UAB football going forward...
The BCS system changed college football. The richest schools got still richer.
The new Play Off system will continue to serve the same schools with even more money.
The NCAA has agreed to let these same schools have "autonomy" so they can make their own rules and use their greater wealth to promote their teams. "We can out spend most schools so we will get the best players". They will be rewarded by the play off system by going to the million $$ payoff bowls while the rest scramble for the 6 figure payoff bowls.
Marshall made the point last season that even if they had been undefeated, they would still have been excluded in favor of P5 teams. The question asked was "Who have they played?" which can be easily answered. The question that can't be so easily answered is "Who (among the top tier teams) has refused to play them?" Boise State has said they feel they have earned the status of playing P5 teams home & home but still find it impossible to get most high tier teams to sign on to play them unless all games are at the P5 team's home stadium.