In my opinion, this is one of the reasons the Big East will expand. Out-of-conference games are expensive. The schools in the Big East do not have stadiums that hold 100K fans.

Quote:'Money games' pay, but some aren't biting

By Ted Hutton | South Florida Sun-Sentinel
September 17, 2008

Florida Atlantic received $900,000 to open the season at Texas, its biggest payday ever.

Florida International turned down an offer of $1.2 million to play at an SEC team next year.

And Sun Belt Commissioner Wright Waters told the conference's athletic directors not to even consider an offer to play a road game against a BCS conference team for less than $1 million.

"A million is cheap to those guys," Waters said. "They ought to be paying us $2 million."

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/colle...8159.story

Does the Big XII have a 100,000 seat stadium? I don't know off hand; I don't think the ACC does, F$U? UCF is a huge school, probably will outgrow the non-BCS pond. Best candidate in that regard.