Why would you even be talking about W Virginia or Colorado - they were always a part of BCS from its beginning...why not also mention Tx A&M, Missouri, Rutgers, Maryland, Pitt they all changed from one BCS conference to another...

Then referencing Louisville's BCS bowls as their reason to be in...they never went to a BCS game until they were invited to a BCS conference (Big East).

The point of the original post is that many teams were called up over the past decade to the BCS and then some demoted after the creation of P5. The vast majority did not really meet a criteria of "winning to get in" to a BCS conference. You brought up some that won when they were in (WVA, CO, Louisville) but that doesn't mean - win to get in. Honestly I still scratch my head at WVU & CO being mentioned in your post as they were originals in the BCS...

It's almost like you kind of get it with this:

My main point, BYU could've absolutely won their way in to a P5, and comparing the turds that were accepted out of desperation by the dying BCS conferences is an irrelevant comparison. In fact, it could be argued BYU did enough to win their way in, to the B12. There's always been debate re; that.

But then you lose it some how...the point is compared to those "turds" (your word) BYU did much much more to "win their way in" than many of those teams before they got an invite of their own and yet no invite came to BYU. So was "winning to get in" really a hefty measure at all? Absolutely not. I actually would believe that academics was placed higher than previous winning and that is also a complete joke to ever think it was a hefty measure in the process.

Location, Location, Location (or market size, market size, market size - you know TV revenue, TV revenue, TV revenue) played much more in to it than other items. Some PR 101 though would tell people "don't stand up and say I'm doing this all for the money" instead say "we feel we are cut from the same cloth, a good strategic fit, etc" say something like "well they won that game or they've been ranked" even if it doesn't really matter...the public will eat it up and believe it because they remember that game or they'll say "yeah I can see how they fit"...

And remember that the money from TV revenues is huge - it is where the additional BCS/CFP money comes from - so if those entities are saying you need to play on Sunday and we won't because of our religion then that hits hard.

Also PR 101 will teach someone also to not say - "we don't want them because of their religion"...