Boise State and TCU get invited to the party…but they have to sit at the kid’s table.
The BCS people continue to find ways to make the system appear even more rigged, and pointless. Granted the only BCS match up that really matters is the census championship game. I am not exactly sure what the point of the other bowls is. Anyhow, since it would look really bad to lockout Boise State for two consecutive years, they must have decided to go ahead and give them an “at large” bid. And, it would be been unjustifiable to lockout number four TCU, they let them in as well.
In what I can only assume is an effect to make the BCS conference schools look better (by not allowing the chance for a non-BCS school to defeat them) they have matched up BSU and TCU. So, while they do have a BCS game, it is the functional equivalent of sitting at the little kids table at Thanksgiving. Ugh.