We have come to think of college athletics in terms of haves and have-nots, big conferences and small conferences, BCS and non-BCS. It's not just in football, either. That dividing line, which now seems so concrete, has permeated into other sports, too: Basketball, soccer, volleyball, track and field.
It's a status symbol in recruiting. It's a financial gulf that programs on the wrong side are desperate to cross. Either you're in or you're out. Heck, even the NCAA — which has nothing to do with college football's postseason — is talking about major structural changes that will allow the so-called "Power 5" conferences to have flexibility in making their own rules.
And it's all because of those three letters: BCS.
All the realignment we've seen the past few years, the television boom that has led to a consolidation of power and financial might in college athletics, the idea that conferences are racing against each other to get to the top of the food chain? For better or worse, it can be directly traced back to the rise of the BCS.
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It's a status symbol in recruiting. It's a financial gulf that programs on the wrong side are desperate to cross. Either you're in or you're out. Heck, even the NCAA — which has nothing to do with college football's postseason — is talking about major structural changes that will allow the so-called "Power 5" conferences to have flexibility in making their own rules.
And it's all because of those three letters: BCS.
All the realignment we've seen the past few years, the television boom that has led to a consolidation of power and financial might in college athletics, the idea that conferences are racing against each other to get to the top of the food chain? For better or worse, it can be directly traced back to the rise of the BCS.
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