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The BCS Conferences are the six major NCAA Division I-A conferences that receive an automatic bid into the Bowl Championship Series every year. The six conferences are the: The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA, often said NC-Double-A) is a voluntary association of about 1200 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletics programs of many colleges and universities in the United States. ... Division I is the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association in the United States. ... The term conference can be used to describe any meeting of people that confer about a certain topic. ... For other uses of the abbreviation BCS, please see BCS (disambiguation). ...

Categories: BCS conferences | BCS The Pacific Ten Conference (Pac-10) is a college athletic conference which operates in the western United States. ... Categories: College athletics conferences ... Big Ten Conference The Big Ten Conference is the United States oldest division one college athletic conference. ... The Southeastern Conference (SEC) is a college athletic conference which operates in the southeastern United States. ... The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) is one of the oldest collegiate athletic leagues in the United States. ... The Big East Conference is a collegiate athletics conference consisting of sixteen universities in the northeastern, southeastern and midwestern United States. ...

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	The leading revenue generator amongst the BCS conferences for the season was the Big 10.
	During the 2002-2003 bowl season, Conference USA's members had the most bowl appearances of teams not in a BCS conference with five (six for 2003-2004 with the addition of the Fort Worth Bowl).
	Both conferences have several schools that are struggling to meet the attendance requirements (15,000 per home game) needed to remain a I-A member and in the near future their programs may be sent back to I-AA.

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