BCS head responds to senators on money question
He cited the example of Utah, a Mountain West school that played in the Sugar Bowl following the 2008 season. Without the BCS, Hancock wrote, the Utes likely would have been sent to the less glamorous—and lucrative—Las Vegas Bowl. He said the Las Vegas Bowl payout was approximately $900,000 while the conference got $9 million for participating in the Sugar Bowl.
And contrary to conventional wisdom, Hancock wrote, non-BCS conferences received a record $24 million from last year’s BCS games.
“If the University of Utah qualifies for a BCS game in the 2010-11 season, it will earn for its conference approximately $24.7 million, which, under the agreement among the Mountain West and the other four (non-BCS) conferences, would then be divided among the five conferences,” Hancock wrote. “The Mountain West certainly could keep all $24.7 million within the conference, or Utah could keep it all.”
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5/24/10
