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Message: [QUOTE="Moontan, post: 297391, member: 166"] Actually, nobody would be left out. The 3 highest ranked conference champions (ranked in the top-X, where X could be 6, 8, whatever), complemented with the highest ranked team(s) to make 4. If the MAC champion is ranked #2 it should be in the "playoff". Without guaranteed BCS-like payouts ($17-18m per BCS conference) for conferences that don't make the "playoff", some programs could take another hit in the pocketbook. I suspect each program in a current BCS conference likely gets on the order of $1m per year, just due to that tie-in. It's possible that conferences can make some of that up by organizing their own bowl games. [/QUOTE]