The key for the non-BCS: Just win

This article is pretty complimentary of ECU and C-USA:

ECU was one of two teams to garner attention out of Conference USA last season. Tulsa started its season 8-0 before struggling at Arkansas in a game that crushed its hopes for BCS equality. But the efforts of both teams still put the spotlight on Conference USA, if only for a moment, and other teams shined as well. Conference USA finished with four teams with eight or more wins, two with 10 or more wins, providing hope that Conference USA might be the next conference to join the BCS-busting movement.

'You got to go undefeated to get there, that's kind of the blueprint of what everybody's done,' Holtz said. 'It's going to be hard to do in this league. I certainly don't want to take anything away from the other leagues. But that's what somebody in this league, in order for us to get into a BCS game, is going to have to do. I think the league is getting better and I'd love to be the one to start it.'

Unlike the MAC and Sun Belt, C-USA doesn't face a lot of the monetary and scheduling restrictions. East Carolina has had little trouble getting home-and-home or neutral site games with big schools mostly because those games have become rivalries. Kansas comes to UTEP this season, Texas Tech to Houston, Virginia to Southern Miss and Mississippi to Memphis. While not every school is getting BCS teams in their home stadiums, Conference USA scheduling is much closer to the Mountain West and WAC than either the Sun Belt or MAC.

So, you know, we've got that going for us.