HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) -The commissioner of the Mountain West Conference says he’ll keep pushing for changes to college football’s postseason bowl selection system.
But Commissioner Craig Thompson said Wednesday it could take five years to get any change to the Bowl Championship Series system.
Thompson told conference media in southern Nevada that in the meantime, the MWC went ahead and became the last conference to sign a broadcasting contract with ESPN for the 2011-14 seasons.
The MWC has been lobbying Congress and the BCS for bowl selection changes since Utah went undefeated last year but was shut out of a national championship game.
Thompson says the conference agreed to the ESPN deal so MWC athletes wouldn’t be denied a chance to compete in the nation’s showcase football games.
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