BYU could have received a NY6 bid.  There is one throwaway NY6 bid for one non-P5 team each year.  The powers that be don't care which non-P5 team gets the bone.  It's not that they care one bit about BYU.  It's just that they don't care any bit more about the G5 teams.  They figured they needed to throw the bone publicly to massage their delusions of "fairness", but they don't care if that bone goes to BYU or a G5.