[Alberta's Child]

Thanks -- I think this point you made sums it up perfectly!

The BCS is designed to eliminate the scenario where the #1 and #2 (in rankings) teams are locked in to different bowls because of automatic conference tie-ins. That's the promise the BCS gave us, and it has given us that game when conditions permitted.

[SoothingDave]

People forget that the Fiesta Bowl gained in stature when it could give the people what they wanted in 1986. Penn State and Miami, #1 vs #2. No other bowl could do this cause both teams were then independents.