1) Notre Dame is considered a P5 equal, not inclusion. Only members of the five self naming conferences are technically P5. By stating BYU is to be treated as a P5 equal, the ACC has openly agreed that BYU and Notre Dame are to be treared as equivalent programs. Also ND's so called guaranteed access is not much better than BYU. The Irish are guaranteed no more than two berths in an Orange Bowl only in any rolling 12 year period and only if they finish a season ranked higher than the ACC champ. Good luck with that. Like BYU, the Irish can earn an at large berth by winning 10 or more games and earning a top ten ranking (see McMurphy comments below).

2) Except the SEC commissioner, no other P5 conference commissioner has made that statement, or declined to consider BYU worthy. The absence of a statement actually means they are not delineating because it is not in their interest to make a statement. The P5 programs that have scheduled games against BYU in the future have almost all made "equivlency" statements about BYU being an upgrade or P5 level program in the announcements of their their scheduling statements.

3) The non P5 commissioner of the successor to the Big East - the AAC - has made a statement similar to the ACC commissioner. Other non P5 CC's have made similarly respectful statements.

4) Big bowl access. Among the interesting statements made in the BYUtvSports interview with Brett McMurphy yesterday was his general belief that a Top 10 ranking was good enough for BYU to gain access to a NYD-6 bowl, even with 2 losses. I agree with him. But take special note that his opinion has also changed in those statements from a year ago. I always thought he was one of the more anti-BYU members of the ESPN CFB team. But he seems to have changed his position a lot.

5) McMurphy mentioned specifically that he asked the SEC commissioner if it was willing to change its position on BYU and many CB fans honed in on the "We have not changed our position..." comment, but seem to have ignored the "...if the ACC has changed its position then we'll probably revisit that decision." Also of note, the respect BYU already receives from major programs and leadership within the PAC, B1G and B12 is so well established, McMurphy did NOT SEE THE NEED to ask those commissioners the same thing.

SUMMARY - BYU may not get statements from the three commissioners that never took a public position, because their members have overwhelmingly accepted BYU as an equivalent program through scheduling and public statements around those agreements. BYU acts like a P5 and is already considered as the same. That leaves the SEC and it stated it would revisit that decision. But two conference members have scheduled BYU and publically stated in their AD's words that BYU is a P5 equal opponent. They literally stuck their fingers in their CC's face in making those statements and they have a right to do that. The SEC bylaws does not grant enough power over AD's in OOC scheduling to tell the AD's what the can or can't do. I think in the long run, the SEC will reverse its stand because not reversing it makes them look petty and backwater to both the other conferences, to the media and perhaps especially their purse string network business partner ESPN. Bristol, Conn may be telling the SEC behind the scenes, "Stop pooping on BYU as we own that property too. We don't need YOU telling we who write the checks how BYU is going to be treated."