[NU Sports] Well, I hope you're right Alan! :) (fwd)

[John Labbe]

Mike's right:  Any independent or non-BCS conference team that finishes 
in the top 6 gets an automatic BCS at-large bid, and that rule has 
priority over the top-4 rule by which Ohio State qualified.  So if 
Toledo had finished 5th and Notre Dame 6th, those two teams would have 
gone over Ohio State at 4th (given that PSU was already in as the Big 
Ten rep).

See the rules at

http://www.bcsfootball.org/index2.cfm?page=standards


On Dec 5, 2005, at 11:16 PM, Mike Nolan wrote:

>> Ohio State was guaranteed a spot because they finished in the Top 4 
>> of the
>> BCS rankings; any team who does so is guaranteed a spot.  ND is 
>> guaranteed a
>> spot because they finished in the Top 6; only ND gets such 
>> consideration.
>> As a result, there were no at-large teams in the BCS this year.
>
> Is that specifically worded to apply only to Notre Dame or does any
> independent school get the same consideration?
>
> Not that there are any other independent schools likely to ever make
> the top 6.
> --
> Mike Nolan
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