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Originally Posted by Cali Coug
The UW game is a good example (as is UW v USC last year where USC moved up after a narrow win against UW, who was worse last year than they will be this year).
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That's a bit of an extreme example, though, because you're not comparing to an average or prototypical BCS team. You're comparing to the premier team of the decade. USC is given more benefit of the doubt than any team in the nation, BYU included. The Trojans didn't even play this week and they picked up something like a dozen #1 votes.
Seattle's being a dork, but at the same time you're overstating things to suggest, "Oh! They dropped us! They must hate non-BCS schools!" It's not exactly a BCS/nonBCS thing. For example, if Kansas makes it up to the top five and then drops a game, they're going to be punished in the polls a lot more than Oklahoma or Texas would for dropping the same game. Not only are Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas all BCS schools, but they're all in the same conference.
So it's not a BCS-nonBCS thing. It's just a preconception thing about which schools "should" be ranked where.