**The Official 7th Automatic Qualifying BCS Conference Thread**

[vander]

I will keep this alive until it happens

some fun articles starting to surface

Is SMU Going To Fundamentally Change College Football As We Know It? (http://bleacherreport.com/articles/319467-is-smu-going-to-fundamentally-change-college-football-as-we-know-it)

How the Mountain West Can Become an Automatic BCS Qualifier (http://www.dawgsports.com/2010/1/5/1234607/how-the-mountain-west-can-become)

too bad the MWC doesn't like Fresno St.
and too bad that it looks like all 9 MWC teams will have to be part of the AQ conference, It'd be nice if there were a couple that were blatantly drop-able so they could get some more CUSA West teams, maybe Wyoming, but they were a charter member or something, don't know if that means anything

maybe if the Big 10+1 takes one from the Big East, and then they raid the CUSA East, could get the ball rolling on a New, 12 team MWC with a north and south.

I'd like to see
North
BYU
BSU
UTAH
Colorado St.
Air Force
??Fresno St./Wyoming??

South
TCU
New Mexico
Houston
Southern Methodist
SDSU
UNLV

or could go East/West too, that might make more sense with Fresno St.
to make a new conference and not include one the most successful schools against BCS teams would be a crime, It's got to be Fresno St.

[Texas Chili Dog]

SMU! SMU! SMU! :hat

[symple19]

I'm all for some sort of scenario along this vein. I'm tired of non-BCS schools getting fucked.

[vander]

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/328278-boise-state-and-the-mountain-west-is-a-match-made-in-heaven

not much news or opinion out there, or if there is I can't find it, I was expecting this to be a bigger story, but I guess the media has moved on to basketball season now :bang

[Cant_Be_Faded]

if they did this its obviously going to be the mwc

[vander]

http://www.obnug.com/2010/5/17/1475281/boise-state-to-the-mountain-west
http://voices.idahostatesman.com/2010/05/14/ccripe/bleymaier_talks_about_conference_expansion_athleti cs_budget_sche

further reason why I don't like what the big 10+1 is doing, I don't want to see TCU/Utah leave and fuck this whole precarious thing up.

and I don't like that's it's only BSU (likely) getting an invite, a 10 team conference allowing only 3 OoC games is no good, MWC needs 12 teams, a championship game, and lots of OoC games each year, it can't be that hard to find 2 more quality teams who would probably accept like Fresno St. or Houston...