Western Kentucky beat Kentucky by 1 point in overtime

[Whitebass]

Whitebass, the four-team playoff doesn't start for two more years. As long as Louisville wins the Big East, they will be in a bowl bid. That being said, yesterday was a frustrating day as a Cardinal fan. For some reason this team doesn't want to put the throttle down when they have a big lead. It will come back to bite them sometime this season.

oh my bad dude, I thought it went into effect this year. No problem at all, since your conference is alligned with the Orange Bowl...of course the winner of the Big East gets the BCS bid....

Question though....With the way Notre Dame is playing and 3-0 so far...What are the chances of Notre Dame getting the BCS bid for the Big East, since they are in a deal to be able to get a Bowl Bid thru the Big East if their record is a certain way. Or maybe they actually can't get the Major Orange Bowl Bid, but a lower level Bowl Bid the Orange Bowl gets for their conference.....

And I agree, with their lack of play and not stomping a mud hole in UNC's tail this weekend....I saw on the news that they dropped in rankings to # 20

[Tim_T]

oh my bad dude, I thought it went into effect this year. No problem at all, since your conference is alligned with the Orange Bowl...of course the winner of the Big East gets the BCS bid....

Question though....With the way Notre Dame is playing and 3-0 so far...What are the chances of Notre Dame getting the BCS bid for the Big East, since they are in a deal to be able to get a Bowl Bid thru the Big East if their record is a certain way. Or maybe they actually can't get the Major Orange Bowl Bid, but a lower level Bowl Bid the Orange Bowl gets for their conference.....

And I agree, with their lack of play and not stomping a mud hole in UNC's tail this weekend....I saw on the news that they dropped in rankings to # 20

Its kind of confusing but I will try and sort it out. Notre Dame is eligible for a BCS Bowl if they are high enough in the rankings. They cannot take the Big East slot in the BCS Bowl. The Big East is not penciled in to the Orange Bowl, they could be in any of the BCS Bowl games. In the past, the Big East Champion has played in the Sugar Bowl and the Fiesta Bowl. The reason they usually end up in the Orange Bowl playing the ACC champs is because they try and keep the bowl affiliations similar to what they historically were i.e. the Rose Bowl pitting the Big 10 vs. the Pac 10 (12 now) and keeping the Sugar Bowl open for an SEC team.

Where Notre Dame comes into play regarding the Big East is in the lesser bowls. In some of them, they can take a Big East team or Notre Dame per the contract.