Some have brought up that BYU's ESPN deal would not be a "carrot" to any BCS teams as they already have their own contracts with ESPN or other large networks. Now that the regular season for most teams is over (only the Army vs Navy game remains) I thought I'd show a different way of looking at these stats. This list shows every BCS conference team this year (including ND) and how many times they have appeared on my list of nationally televised games on a network with high enough distribution/ratings that it was tracked/reported by Nielsen. I also included a column for how many BCS games that individual team had actually appeared in (does not include Bowl Alliance or Bowl Coalition years):

Total	Team	        Conf	BCS Games
12	Notre Dame	Indy	3
9	LSU	        SEC	4
9	Ohio State	B1G Ten	9
9	Oklahoma	Big XII	8
9	Wisconsin	B1G Ten	3
8	Alabama	        SEC	3
8	Clemson	        ACC	0
8	Miami (FL)	ACC	4
8	Michigan	B1G Ten	4
8	Michigan State	B1G Ten	0
8	Nebraska	B1G Ten	2
8	Oklahoma State	Big XII	0
7	Georgia	        SEC	3
7	Oregon	        PAC	3
7	Penn State	B1G Ten	2
7	South Carolina	SEC	0
7	Stanford	PAC	2
7	Tennessee	SEC	2
6	Arkansas	SEC	1
6	Auburn	        SEC	2
6	Florida	        SEC	6
6	Texas	        Big XII	4
6	Texas A&M	Big XII	1
6	USC	        PAC	7
5	Baylor	        Big XII	0
5	Florida State	ACC	6
5	Georgia Tech	ACC	1
5	Illinois	B1G Ten	2
5	Iowa	        B1G Ten	2
5	Purdue	        B1G Ten	1
5	West Virginia	BigEast	2
4	Kansas State	Big XII	1
4	Louisville	BigEast	1
4	Ole Miss	SEC	0
4	Pittsburgh	BigEast	1
4	Virginia Tech	ACC	5
3	Cincinnati	BigEast	2
3	Colorado	PAC	1
3	Missouri	Big XII	0
3	North Carolina	ACC	0
3	Oregon State	PAC	1
3	South Florida	BigEast	0
3	Syracuse	BigEast	1
3	Virginia	ACC	0
2	Arizona	        PAC	0
2	Boston College	ACC	0
2	California	PAC	0
2	Connecticut	BigEast	1
2	Iowa State	Big XII	0
2	Maryland	ACC	1
2	Minnesota	B1G Ten	0
2	Mississippi St	SEC	0
2	NC State	ACC	0
2	Rutgers	        BigEast	0
2	Texas Tech	Big XII	0
2	UCLA	        PAC	1
2	Washington	PAC	1
1	Arizona State	PAC	0
1	Indiana	        B1G Ten	0
1	Kansas	        Big XII	1
1	Kentucky	SEC	0
1	Northwestern	B1G Ten	0
1	Utah	        PAC	2
1	Vanderbilt	SEC	0
1	Wake Forest	ACC	1
0	Duke	        ACC	0
0	Washington St	PAC	1

It may be kind of like the guy tossing star fish back into the ocean - it may not matter to all of them but looking at this list it sure looks like there are some at the bottom there where it "will matter to them".

I'd just state that any of those teams with 0, 1, 2 or even 3 they may possibly think that our ESPN contract is a "carrot".