1. In the wake of the Sugar Bowl’s decision to overlook No. 7 Boise State and No. 8 Kansas State, one suggestion being discussed for the next BCS contract is to obligate the BCS bowls to take the highest-ranked available team rather than have the ability to choose an at-large team. The bowls surely will balk, and may cry antitrust. But no one is forcing them to be in the BCS. Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott wouldn’t address that idea specifically but said, “There are things we all see that could be better.”

2. A plus-one will be discussed at the BCS meetings next spring but it will take a unanimous vote of the six AQ conferences to implement it before the current contract with ESPN expires in two years. Even if they get that, there’s a bigger problem. The Cotton Bowl, the leading candidate for the fifth site, is on Fox for the next two years; the BCS is on ESPN.

3. Scott said the Big Ten/Pac-12 games in the new scheduling arrangement will be spread over the first three weeks of the season and scheduled three or four years out to allow schools to complete their non-conference schedules. Figuring out a system for who plays whom, and not the actual matchups, will be left to the athletic directors. Scott said, “It won’t be put everyone in a room and speed date.”