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[QUOTE="omniorange, post: 310668, member: 636"]
Highest Boise ranking was #6, so as good as some of those teams were, it is unlikely they'd have made a Football Final Four.  They'd likely have been chosen to go to an Access Bowl (the same as they went to BCS Bowls), but not the FFF.
 
TCU would have likely made it in both 2009 and 2010, but they play in the Big 12 now so they are now a power conference team.
 
Only Big East team that would have likely made the Football Final Four was the 2009 Cincinnati team.  (And yes, the only ACC team to likely have made a FFF recently is the 2007 VT squad, but my focus in this reply is for those teams/programs not in a contract bowl).
 
Basically all of the known programs not associated with a contract bowl in the new system that are capable of breaking into the FFF now are in the Big East - Boise, Louisville, Cincy, and maybe Houston, SMU, USF, and UCF.  Since they will be playing one another, what is the likelihood of any of them having an undefeated season?
 
Time, of course, will tell.  But I, for one, am having a hard time grasping that this new system is somehow more accessible (other than there will be 4 teams now instead of 2) for those programs in conferences without a contract bowl.  Rightly or wrongly, three of the last 4 Big East champions wouldn't even have made one of the Access Bowls in the new system.
 
Cheers,
Neil
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