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The point is not even that teams in non-BCS conferences do not get to play for the championship game, although that is legitimate given that all teams in Division I FBS pay the same fees to the NCAA to belong in that division and play along the same rules. It's that they don't have access to BCS money. The worst team in a BCS league (say, Syracuse or Washington State) will reap more revenue for their football program than the best team in a non-BCS league -- even if that team gets a BCS bowl invite.
The BCS is designed to ensure its selected teams maintain their dominance over non-BCS teams in the long run. Meanwhile, mid-majors have to bankrupt themselves just to stay competitive. Even baseball, long considered the most inequal of all sports, has revenue sharing. The NCAA funnels all its revenues to the top teams, or more specifically, all teams in its select six conferences. So teams that do nothing and suck for years, like Syracuse, still earn enough BCS money to hire a top-notch coach to replace their current shitty one. Mid-majors can never compete with that.
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