Report: BCS to Reconsider Two-Team Conference Limit: Why It's a Bad Idea

It looks like college football is trying to keep the little guy down, once again.

Southeastern Conference commissioner Mike Slive expects the BCS executive director to ask the commissioners to consider lifting the two-team limit in the Bowl Championship Series. Currently there are rules that only two teams per conference can play in the five most lucrative bowl games a year. 

Sure, why not? It's not like the SEC doesn't rule college football as it is. What's a few more teams from your conference in the biggest bowl games of the year going to hurt?

Slive didn't say if he would support the change, but he doesn't have to. A BCS bid is worth about $22 million to an automatic qualifying conference this season, and an additional at-large bid would net those leagues another $6.1 million. You really think he's not going to support it?

BCS Executive Director Bill Hancock declined to speak on Slive's comments, but he did write this in a email to the Associated Press.

"The commissioners are committed to making the BCS the best it can be," Hancock wrote. "It's very good now. Just what 'making it the best' might entail will be evaluated in a thoughtful and deliberate process over the next six or eight months."

Basically, it's going to happen, and only a couple of conferences are going to take over college football more than they already do.

In the 13 years the BCS has been around, the SEC has placed the maximum of two teams eight times, including each of the past six years.

“Two teams per conference is a rule that needs to be evaluated now,” Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany told SI.com. “It would be good for the system to pull in a top 10 team even if it’s a third from a conference, but politically it’s difficult. A fair compromise might be: How about one time in a four-year cycle, a conference could have a third team? As these conferences get larger, it’s something we should consider.”

Of course the Big Ten would support it because they have benefited the most from the BCS and have placed the maximum of two teams 10 times, more than any other conference.

The Big-12 wouldn't support this; they have only had two teams claim a BCS berth five times, and right now teams are trying to jump ship daily.

How about the Big East and the ACC? You know how many times they've had two teams participate in BCS bowls? The answer is zero. If you thought the Big East was going down the tubes already, let this rule change and see what happens then.

Are you a fan of non-automatic qualifiers? Your group of teams has only made a BCS bowl six times. Have fun trying even harder to get a BCS berth. Who cares if you're undefeated and beat up on cupcakes all season? This would be a rule for the adults only; go back and sit at the kids' table.

Hello, Boise State!

There have also been talks of adding another bowl game to the BCS roster, and the Cotton Bowl seems to be the most likely pick. That would leave six BCS bowl games with six BCS conferences having more than two teams from each conference in them. Somebody is not going to be jolly during the holidays.  

Once this rule passes, forming superconferences would be the next agenda.

It's just college football taking the needed steps to keep the little guy down.