Scary dilema for the MAC. You wonder If Ohio were 13-0 and ranked in top 10. Yes it would be a big hit on a financial side, but having one magical season in 100 years of football would be worth it. You could always schedule money bag games and just take the cash for a few years. For the MAC it would be an historic event. UConn football atleast got there. 10 years ago they were 1-AA and like Boise St they reached a BCS bowl.
It helped UConn to have a basketball connection to THE WORST auto qualifier in football, the Big Least. Their being in the Fiesta last season just shows the inequity in conferences having auto tie-ins for the big money bowls. They got their heads handed to them, and rightfully so. If they were in any other AQ conference, they would've gone to a bowl with a much smaller payout.
OU needs to beef up the schedule in order to do what Boise and TCU have done. Which means more Bix 6 schools. They don't need to have three on the schedule like Fiami, BSU and WMU are doing. Beating three is asking too much; it's a good way to wind up 6-6 at best. But having two with one or two decent non-AQs makes 13-0 or even 12-1 a lot more attractive in the BCS standings. Going 13-0 against next year's soft schedule might not even get the Cats in the Top 25.