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[QUOTE="Scooch, post: 834369, member: 628"]
Fascinating piece about the history of the BCS [[url]http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2013/12/death_to_the_bcs_is_upon_colle.html[/url]] includes this passage:

[I]The Bowl Coalition was created between the SEC, Big Eight, Southwest Conference, ACC and Big East with the Orange, Sugar, Cotton and Fiesta bowls. It nearly stalled. At the 11th hour in 1991, the Blockbuster Bowl proposed to pair the Big East and ACC champions in an annual game at Joe Robbie Stadium. Six months earlier, the Blockbuster lost out to the Fiesta as a bowl to host the coalition's at-large teams.

Blockbuster Entertainment Chairman Wayne Huizenga offered the ACC and Big East a 10-year agreement guaranteeing $4.3 million per team -- up from $1.6 million per team in 1990. It would have been the second-highest payout behind only the Rose.

"We're looking at it and saying that's going to be Florida State and Miami, and at that time, those two were just way ahead of everybody," Corrigan said. "It was almost comical the way (other conferences) looked at the ACC and Big East in those days. We said if we do this, the whole bowl system is going to get really screwed up because they don't want to let us in, but if they don't, they're not going to have the great games they think they can have."

The ACC and Big East passed on Huizenga's offer. The Bowl Coalition paired the nation's top two teams in a bowl in two of the three years it existed. But it couldn't match the Big Eight and SEC champions in any bowl game, and the Big Ten and Pac-10 weren't part of the coalition at all.[/I]

How could they pass on that?!?!
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