Boise State also became just the second team from a non-AQ ( automatic qualifier ) conference team to both play in and win a BCS bowl game ( the 2004 Utah Utes team was the first , playing in the 2005 Fiesta Bowl ) . However , the presence of Boise State , a non-AQ school , quite possibly led to some of the lowest TV ratings ever for a BCS game . Of the 37 BCS bowl games played through the 2006 season , only two received lower ratings than this game — the 2005 Fiesta Bowl , the only other BCS game up to that time to feature a non-AQ school ( although this most likely was due to getting stuck with a clearly over-matched Pitt team from the Big East &ndash; who did receive an AQ bid &ndash; and the resulting blow-out was not a surprise , in any way ) ; and the 2007 Orange Bowl , which featured two non-traditional teams in Louisville and Wake Forest ( although , to be fair , both of these teams were AQ conference champions , were awarded the guaranteed spots in a BCS bowls due to their conference memberships in the Big East Conference and the Atlantic Coast Conference , respectively , and were presumably supposed to be bigger draws , whereas neither 2004 Utah nor 2006 Boise State had automatic bids as a conference champions and yet both outscored them in ratings in their games )
Big East Conference
Big East Conference (1979–2013)
2007 Fiesta Bowl