The AAC recently released its 2020-2025 bowl lineup, which includes a situation that involves an alternating-years rotation with the Armed Forces and Hawaii bowls and a pool of 8 bowl games, all owned by ESPN Events, to which the AAC will send 4 teams each year.
Similarly, the ACC announced that it will send one team to one of three bowl games owned by ESPN Events - each of which overlap with the AAC.
theaccGREENSBORO, N.C. (theACC.com) – The Atlantic Coast Conference on Thursday announced a new six-year bowl lineup, beginning in 2020, which includes the addition of the San Diego County Credit Union Holiday Bowl and the newly created bowl game in Boston. The lineup features bowl games across the country with outstanding matchups in Alabama, California, Florida, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina and Texas.
http://theacc.com/news/2019/7/11/football-acc-announces-bowl-agreements-for-2020-25.aspx
The SEC announced that it has an annual contract with the Birmingham and Gasparilla bowls, as long as they have sufficient bowl-eligible teams.
It was also announced that the Big 12 will be involved in a rotation which includes the First Responders and Armed Forces bowls (both in the DFW area).
The bowls include:
- Birmingham (Alabama): SEC v. AAC/ACC eligible
- Gasparilla (Tampa, FL): SEC v. AAC/ACC eligible
- First Responder (Dallas, TX): B12/AAC/ACC eligible
- Boca Raton (Florida): AAC eligible
- Frisco (Texas): AAC eligible
- Cure (Orlando, FL): AAC eligible
- Myrtle Beach (South Carolina): AAC eligble
- New Mexico (Albuquerque): AAC eligible
- Armed Forces (Ft. Worth, TX): B12 and AAC every other
- Hawaii (Honolulu): AAC every other
Based on the AAC and ACC eligibility for a pool of bowl games, and the Big 12's rotation with the DFW area bowls, all of which are owned and operated by ESPN Events, I believe that BYU will also be involved somehow in the pool of ESPN Events bowls. I also believe that the MWC and Army will be significantly involved in the ESPN Events bowl pool as well. That way, ESPN will have post-season options and control of the AAC and MWC, BYU, and all three military academies - to make the best bowl matchups. So, BYU would have reasonable access to a decent bowl lineup:
- Armed Forces - v. B12 or AAC or Army?
- First Responder: v. B12, ACC, or AAC
- Gasparilla: v. SEC, ACC or AAC (most likely if SEC doesn't have enough bowl eligible teams)
- Hawaii: v. MWC or AAC or Army?
- Famous Idaho: v. MWC
- Frisco: v. AAC or MWC? or Army?
- New Mexico: v. MWC? or AAC
- Cure: v. AAC or Army?