There has been a lot of talk this week about what could happen if the Northern Illinois Huskies football team beats Kent State for the Mid-American Conference title today.

The two teams will meet at 6 p.m. at Ford Field in Detroit, and the winner could – could – earn a berth in a BCS bowl game, probably the Orange Bowl on New Year’s Day.

An Orange Bowl berth would be the program’s first BCS berth, and it would benefit in terms of exposure as well as financially (the share of revenue for non-automatic qualifying conferences doubles when one of their teams makes a BCS bowl.)