[NU Sports] brain bowl

[Mike Nolan]

> Unfortunately, that is very unlikely to happen this year as the Rose Bowl
> will be obligated to take a qualified non BCS conference team if one of its
> anchor conferences sends a team to the BCS title game (this rule only
> applies once over the next 4 seasons). This is due to the fact that other
> BCS bowls (Fiesta, Sugar) have been forced into taking non BCS conference
> members during the last 4 year cycle and they wanted to even things out.  It
> is possible that this could happen if no non-BCS conference members end up
> in the Top 12 of the BCS standings, but that is unlikely, especially with
> Boise State starting so high and playing such an easy schedule.

if you really want to think about something mind-boggling:

How about a Rose Bowl after the 2011 or 2012 season (depending on how
soon CU gets out of the Big XII) which consists of Big Ten champion 
Nebraska and Pac 12 champion Colorado?
--
Mike Nolan