Doesn't each Pac 12 school get a considerable sum if one team makes it to the National Championship game?

SkyBear;841965602 said:

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We recruit against Oregon. An Oregon NC would take recruits away from us for many years. Not worth the one-time money bonus, which would also go to other schools and thus not even give us a leg-up.

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NC or Rose bowl, they have won the game for now. Our biggest recruiting threats are those schools we compete with that are not yet at the top. Washington and UCLA.

The Pac only gets a bonus if there is a 2nd team in the BCS. That can happen if someone goes to the NCG, but it's not guaranteed. It can also happen w/o a team in the NCG. The extra money isn't even that good - it's $4-5 million ($6 million payout but expenses are well over $1mil). So divide that by 12 and it's around $500k per school. Not chump change, but not exactly worth it if the tradeoff is a NC for Oregon.

And one of the easiest ways to get a 2nd team in the BCS would be to have a undefeated team in the CCG get upset.

I would like to see Oregon go undefeated and win the NC. I love Cal, but our team is irrelevant to any discussion outside our weekly game. If we can't win anything big, I root for someone from our conference over the SEC or Big 10.

ColoradoBear1;841965654 said:

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The Pac only gets a bonus if there is a 2nd team in the BCS. That can happen if someone goes to the NCG, but it's not guaranteed. It can also happen w/o a team in the NCG. The extra money isn't even that good - it's $4-5 million ($6 million payout but expenses are well over $1mil). So divide that by 12 and it's around $500k per school. Not chump change, but not exactly worth it if the tradeoff is a NC for Oregon.

And one of the easiest ways to get a 2nd team in the BCS would be to have a undefeated team in the CCG get upset.

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Do other conferences get bigger payouts? I thought I read somewhere it was in the millions per school for the SEC last year. Maybe it was since both teams in NCG were SEC.

SFBear2012;841965834 said:

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Do other conferences get bigger payouts? I thought I read somewhere it was in the millions per school for the SEC last year. Maybe it was since both teams in NCG were SEC.

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The 6 BCS conferences get $21 million for the first team in the BCS. Right now that's contractually guaranteed. The 2nd teams nets them about $6 million more.

I can't find the 2012 info off hand, but this was written for 2011:
http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-football/story/2011-01-24/sbj-bcs-payouts-grow-along-with-big-shares-for-big-six-conferences

$27 mil for Pac10, BigTen, SEC, $21 mil for Big 12, ACC, Big East.

It would be about the same for 2012 for the p12 since Stanford played in the Fiesta as the 2nd team.

MWC got about $8 million more than the other non-AQ's because TCu qualified (no idea on how exactly they split the rest between non AQ confs).