So in the 10 years prior to this year's fiesta how many major bowls has ND gone too? 0. How many total bowls? 5. So really how much extra bowl money has ND gotten over the last few years? Remember ND didn't get any help from other teams. Not much compared to alot of other big teams. Granted ND will make a few more BCS games while Weiss is around but its not like he isn't going to have the occasional down year either like OU in 05 or tOSU in 04. By Notre Dame taking only the 4.5 million for a BCS appearence that leaves the other 14 million to go to the other conferences increasing their average bowl take. It could be even more considering they seem to be making more money each year on these things. So more than 14 million could be going to the other conferences to divvy out. And it seems as if ND did a favor by taking the deal at least in the near future because they're going to be a perennial BCS team for a little while at least, and then we could be talking the 18 million every year. And I repeat even with the extra revenue ND recieved last year they still had less football revenue than 6 other football teams including tOSU.