All I've seen from reputable reporters is a claim that the full members of the Big East might get as much as $15 million on the back-end, but that's still shy of the ACC's $17 million.

The NCS or whatever the BCS ends up being called isn't going to have an AQ on paper but the reality is that the SEC, Big 10, Pac-12, Big XII, and ACC are going to be guaranteed AQ bowls.

The Big East hasn't been cut out, it just simply no longer exists.

If you go back to when the BCS was founded, the SEC, Big 10, Big XII, Pac-10, and ACC made the most money. Trailing them was the Big East. Then there was a gap between Big East and CUSA/MWC that was as large as the gap between Big East and the rest. Then you had a similar financial gap between CUSA/MWC and Sun Belt/MAC/WAC

In 2014 the new "AQ" of Pac-12, Big 10, Big XII, SEC, ACC plus Notre Dame is exactly the same number of schools that made up AQ when the BCS was formed. The only difference is that Temple and Rutgers are out and TCU and Utah are in.

The Big Five are still going to have a big gap between them and the Big East the difference is that no one from that Big East football league is left other than Rutgers and Temple. The new Big East is the replacement for the old CUSA and MWC. The good news for the new CUSA/MWC/Big East is that the rich leagues are moving content away from the old traditional networks. B10 has their own, Pac-12 has their own, Texas has their own, with those new outlets and CBS now owning the old CSTV and NBC elevating the old Outdoor Life / VS channel into NBC Sports there is more demand for content.