Here’s a random thought to toss out there regarding the future of the BCS.

ABC will no longer have the BCS games (except for the Rose Bowl) in a few years. Starting in 2007 it will be on Fox. ABC has been a staunch defender of the BCS. ABC and ESPN are part of the same company, and while individual commentators and personalities at ESPN have blasted the BCS, they have also essentially toed the line and not really gone hard after the system (ask an Ohio State fan about the difference).

Arguably it wasn’t in ESPN’s corporate interests to do so. Without the business concerns constraining them, and in fact it now works to their business interests, they might really try to take down the BCS. ESPN is the 800 pound gorilla of the American sports world. Plain and simple, there is no other entity that can drive and direct sports news and interest like ESPN and its power broker — Sports Center (hockey, arguably, being the exception to prove the rule).