5 top rated conference champs, 11 auto-bids. You don't see them shaking in their boots, or rushing to bend the knee. That's because Yormark knows what the SEC and Big 10 are doing with this 4 auto-bids vs. 2, the Big 12 is playing hardball just like they should be, and not rushing to bend the knee and give the SEC and Big 10 everything they want. You might not get as many at-large bids, but if things get entirely out of hand (e.g., only 1 ACC and Big 12 team, while 6 SEC teams and 5 Big 10 teams make it in) then those two conferences have a righteous cause to raise holy hell from the rafters, and it will create an enormous public backlash that will be hard to defend, because most of those SEC and Big 10 teams will have 3, 4, or more losses. They can't do that if they just roll over and agree to give the SEC and Big 10 double the auto-bids they get every year, regardless of what actually happens. This is chess, it's not checkers.