GT, the reason Stanford is stuck with Wisconsin is that the Rose Bowl is locked in with the Pac-10 and Big 10. In the Big 10, the winner of the conference championship game goes. This year it was Nebraska and Wisconsin, and somehow Wisconsin played out of their minds and destroyed Nebraska. But how did an unranked team even get to the Big 10 title game, you might ask? Well, on that side of the Big 10, Ohio State is banned from bowls this year because of the Tressell cover-up and Penn St. is banned from bowls because of the Sandusky scandal. So the unranked, 8-5, #3 team on one side of the Big 10 team is in the Rose Bowl. To me, this is far worse than the Northern Illinois inclusion in a BCS game.