I just heard from a pal who knows a lot more about the BCS than I do (I confess, I’m a playoff guy and hate the whole BCS mess). He says that the Pac-10 doesn’t get as much money for its second bowl team as I thought. Sorry, my bad. The additional payout, according to him, is $4.5 million and not $17 million. So while there is still quite a pot of additional revenue, there isn’t the gigantic financial incentive for the Pac-10 to get Oregon State into the Rose Bowl that I thought.

That would work out to only about $450,000, not $1.5 million per school — chicken feed by today’s big-time college athletics’ money-squandering standards. That’s not even going to buy enough Guitar Hero games to make the football team happy.

So go ahead, Ducks — you can try to win. No use tanking it.

And for all you people out there so alarmed by my suggestion that the Ducks ought to take a dive in the game . . . it’s called SATIRE. It’s a lost art. I was just kidding, for heaven’s sakes. Relax and chill out. You know and I know that nobody is going to intentionally lose the Civil War. And nobody would seriously suggest they do.

At least I thought you knew that.

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