Looks like Slive will be doing some arm-twisting when the BCS renegotiates its TV deal: SEC commissioner Mike Silve expects BCS to ask commissioners to lift two-team conference limit - ESPN
I'm sure this will come up, but currently "Second teams from conferences receive $4.5 million per BCS rule". So Arkansas in the Sugar Bowl last year generated a secondary share of $4.5 million for the SEC, not an additional $17 million. It seemed worth mentioning anyway...
Thanks for clarifying, I wasn't sure if that quote meant that the conference gets a total of $17M for all bids, or $17M per bid.
Interestingly (or not), if the "more than two teams" had been a rule since 2000, the big winner for getting a third conference team into a BCS Bowl would have been the Big 12. As we know, the final BCS standings comes out in December before the bowls. In the 11 years since 2000, the Big 12 has had three teams in the final BCS top ten five times (2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2008); The Big 10 has had three top ten teams in 2010 and 2006; The SEC had three top ten teams in 2006. No conference had three top ten teams in 2004, 2005, 2007 or 2009.
The SOS in the SEC is so tough and one sided in the west that having 3 teams finish in the top 10 is difficult for the SEC
Ya know ... I know it's not a popular thought, but it would be an advantage to move the Barn and Bama to the East. The East needs some cohoneys. We'd still keep the Bama rivalry ..as we'd be meeting them every year in the SECCG.
