At that point BYU was the one and only “outside the in crowd” school to have actually achieved things only the “in crowd” was generally allowed to achieve. There were some changes made, allowances made, to let those outside of the power structure get a part of those rewards if they had a season worthy of it.
Whether fans of other schools like it or not BYU pioneered quite a few things for those that weren’t part of the original power structure.