re: How much money will Oregon lose out on?

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I thought in a BCS conference, ties went the way of the more highly ranked BCS team.

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This is from the Pac10 website...

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b. Multiple-Team Ties. (1) When three or more teams are tied in Conference play, if one has defeated all others, it shall be the Rose Bowl representative. If that is not the case, a comparison of the tied teams' records against the other tied teams shall be made and the team having the best record against the other tied teams shall be the Rose Bowl representative. If two or more teams are still tied after this comparison, the appropriate two-team or multiple-team tie-breaking procedures shall be repeated among those teams still under consideration.

(2) If more than two teams are still tied after the process above is completed, each remaining tied team's record against the team occupying the highest position in the final regular season standings shall be compared, with the procedure continuing down through the standings until one team gains an advantage.

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I think since we went to the Round Robin format this has been used. For a few years we may have used highest BCS ranking, although it never came to that. Until earlier in this decade, it was always which team had gone the longest amount of time since it's last Rose Bowl appearance... even if they shared the same record with another team who had beat them in the season.