Mountain West requests BCS bid

Published Dec. 13, 2011 12:00 a.m. ET

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The Mountain West Conference has sent a letter to the BCS presidential oversight committee outlining why it should receive an automatic bid the next two seasons.

Commissioner Craig Thompson's letter was posted on the conference's website Tuesday.

It says the conference finished among the top five major college football leagues in two of three criteria used to determine if a seventh automatic bid will be added for the last two years of the current BCS agreement.

Teams currently in the MW have performed well enough over the last four years to allow the league to request an automatic bid.

The conference cites the committee's decision to allow the Big East to keep its bid in 2007 after failing to meet all performance benchmarks.