SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP)—The Mountain West Conference has performed so well the last two seasons that it could receive an automatic bid to the BCS in the 2012 and '13 seasons. BCS executive director Bill Hancock was hesitant Wednesday to say the MWC, which has placed Utah and TCU in the Bowl Championship Series the last two seasons, was on course to become the seventh automatic qualifying conference. But he did tell the conference commissioners and athletic directors gathered here this week for meetings that they should be aware of the strides the Mountain West has made toward earning an automatic bid. "If they (the Mountain West Conference) meet the threshold, they'll be the seventh," Hancock said, though he added the way the other conferences perform over the next two seasons influences that threshold.