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Science News
September 4, 2004
Ivars Peterson |
College Football, Rankings, and Wandering Monkeys Last year, the use of a complicated mathematical formula used to determine which two college football teams play for the national championship collided with human expectations... Puzzle of the Week...   |
Sports Central
October 24, 2007
Joe Boesch |
Paterno's Run Nearing its End? When his contract to coach at Penn State expires in 2008, Joe Paterno should leave on a high note. |
Sports Central
December 10, 2008
Matt Thomas |
Not-So-Extreme Makeover: BCS Edition Suggestions for revamping bowl selection process. |
Sports Central
October 28, 2008
Matt Thomas |
BCS-Mania! Predictions on what will or will not happen as we zip through college football's stretch run. |
Sports Central
December 9, 2003
Adam Russell |
Best Championship System, or Best Contender Screwed? The University of Southern California has been jilted out of the Sugar Bowl by the BCS computers, despite being ranked number one in both human polls. |
Sports Central
November 18, 2009
Paul Foeller |
Bashing the BCS Now, more than ever, it's clear that the argument supporting the BCS doesn't hold any water. |
Sports Central
October 9, 2009
Corrie Trouw |
Poll Im-Position Just as baseball has moved past the gospel of scouts and into a world ruled by advanced metrics, so too should our evaluation of college football teams. |
Sports Central
January 6, 2004
David Shaw |
In Defense of the BCS Inevitable discussion over the last two days has centered on just who is the better team, USC or LSU, and why the BCS failed to supply the answer. The outrage, begun well before this year, would even lead one to believe that having co-champions is unheard of, even perverse. Not so. |
Sports Central
October 12, 2005
Avery Smith |
Bluebook Notes #5: Pasadena Projections A closer look at the ten teams with the best shot at heading to the Rose Bowl. |
Sports Central
December 8, 2008
Andrew Jones |
Where the BCS is Truly Flawed Three fundamental flaws with the BCS this season. |
Sports Central
December 14, 2010
Kyle Jahner |
Fans Will Enjoy BCS Slate While Wishing For BCS Demise The best two teams in college football, both unblemished, will play each other for the national title in a game that would never have happened before the BCS. |
Salon.com
November 23, 2002
Allen Barra |
Of bowls and polls College football's weird champion-choosing process has taken the arguments -- and the fun -- out of New Year's Day. |
Sports Illustrated
November 22, 2000
Tim Layden |
Pros and cons of a playoff In the world of college football, we recently entered BCS season. Grab a 12-gauge and fire away at the Byzantine system used to select the national champion... |
Sports Illustrated
November 22, 2002
Tim Layden |
Just win, baby College football's new mantra is in full bloom this season |
Sports Central
November 3, 2008
Corrie Trouw |
Ballot Bias It's election season again, college football voters, so take a few minutes and think about what each candidate has done to deserve your vote. |
Sports Central
October 21, 2003
Michael Beshara |
Pigskin Letters Do you think the Heisman Trophy should go to the best QB/RB on the best team in the country?... What is the best way for a college football coach to handle unrealistic fan expectations? |
Sports Central
October 6, 2004
David Martin |
Busting the BCS: Is it Even Possible? The cottage industry of preseason analysis and predictions is the first failure of legitimacy of any poll -- and, by extension, any formula based upon that poll. |
Sports Central
December 19, 2011
Paul Foeller |
Hey, Over Here! Neither of the following two football games is necessarily going to draw big ratings, or even be the best games on the day they're played (January 2nd). |
Sports Central
January 7, 2008
Adam Russell |
Are Two "Best" Teams in BCS Title Game? A proposed playoff system for college football. |
Sports Central
November 22, 2010
Andrew Jones |
The Bane of Auto-Bids This year has been quite an anomaly in college football. TCU and Boise State have been making noise for a few years and everybody seems to keep hoping that they'll finally make the coveted step into the National Championship Game. |
Sports Central
December 12, 2008
Brad Oremland |
How John Swofford Killed the BCS Another column whining about how college football needs to reform its Division I postseason -- and offering a proposal that has no chance of becoming reality. |
Sports Central
December 18, 2006
Adam Russell |
BCS: Is it Human or Machine? The BCS needs to make up its mind -- is it going to be a computer poll that is entirely objective based on stats, schedule, and record, or is it going to be steered by the human polls? |
Sports Central
December 2, 2005
Adam Russell |
Oregon Could Be Odd "Duck" Out of BCS The big question: What happens to college football's Bowl Championship System if either Texas or USC lose Saturday? |
Sports Central
December 11, 2006
Zach Jones |
So Much For a BCS Rematch... Coaches unwilling to endorse a double-jeopardy rematch between Michigan and Ohio State took Florida's 38-28 victory over Dec. 2 as the perfect excuse to drop the Wolverines in the polls. |
Sports Central
January 8, 2004
David Martin |
Troubles, and Then a Split Title The college football season started with the specter of two coaching indiscretions looming over, if not outright haunting, their respective schools. It finished with a question mark haunting two other, happier programs. |
Sports Central
November 25, 2003
David Martin |
Why ESPN Hates the BCS I have two problems with the way college football is covered by national media types. First of all, most of them, e.g., ESPN, have a pro-playoff agenda. The second problem is that once they see a team they love, like the Oklahoma Sooners, they declare the de facto title winner. |
Science News
November 12, 2005
Ivars Peterson |
Ranking College Football Teams If you aren't happy with where your team stands in the national rankings, two scientists have developed a novel ranking scheme based on the mathematics of networks. |
Sports Central
November 14, 2004
Eric Poole |
JoePa on the Edge Rumors of the end of Paterno's era at Penn State are greatly exaggerated. Or at least they should be. Paterno has earned one more year, if for no other reason than for his service to Penn State University. |
Sports Central
September 25, 2006
Corrie Trouw |
Teams Sacrificing Style, Winning Ugly As several aspiring national champions showed on Saturday, sometimes the substance of a win matters a little more than its style. |
Sports Illustrated
December 5, 2000
Ivan Maisel |
Inside College Football Move over, New Coke. The Bowl Championship Series, which is in its third year, is a case study in how to provide the public with an innovation it doesn't want. The BCS crunched the numbers, and the result was controversy.. |
Sports Central
November 1, 2010
Paul Foeller |
Unparalleled Parity There is as much parity in college football this year as there has been in a very long time. Eleven of the top 25 teams weren't ranked when the season started, including five of the top 15. |
Sports Illustrated
November 7, 2000
Rick Reilly |
The Wins That Really Count In his 51st season, in his 74th year, on the doorstep of becoming the winningest major college football coach who ever lived, everything went straight to hell for Joe Paterno... |
Sports Central
October 4, 2010
Jean Neuberger |
The BCS Projections ... For Now As we've entered the second month of the college football season, the BCS picture still looks fairly clouded. |
Sports Central
August 7, 2004
Adam Russell |
Computers Decide Who's No. 1 Again As real as a video game may seem, it's still not real people playing football. But can it be used to predict how the upcoming college season will end up? |
Sports Central
October 24, 2008
Josh Galligan |
An Unbiased Look at Top 25 Rankings The most important thing to remember is that these rankings are done in a way in which to compare two teams should they meet on a neutral playing field. |
Sports Central
September 20, 2004
M. Edward Guest |
Producing a True Champion Do we need to provide for a "good loss" mechanism to ensure that teams are not penalized for losing tough, long-shot, football games, when others do not participate in such contests? |
Sports Illustrated
October 5, 2000
Ivan Maisel |
Tossing darts Beyond Nebraska and FSU, Top 25 is anyone's guess... |
Sports Central
December 16, 2003
Jeff Zaginailoff |
The Solution to the BCS is a Playoff Tournament Despite recent efforts to reform it, the process for deciding the national champion in college football, the most noteworthy and public of all college sports, is still far from perfected. |
AskMen.com
Paul Bessire |
Top 5: BCS Champions WhatIfSports takes the Bowl College Series to the next level by creating a simulated tournament of all 10 champions. |
Sports Illustrated
September 25, 2001
Ivan Maisel |
Penn State's Decline It's the late winter of Joe Paterno's coaching career, and what a cold time it has become... |
Sports Central
November 21, 2007
Adam Russell |
BCS Still a Muddy Mess It is possible that only one of the top five teams in the BCS standings could end up in the National Championship Game -- Ohio State. |
Sports Illustrated
December 14, 2001
Tim Layden |
Keep the BCS -- with a twist At this point, further BCS bashing is redundant. A system that failed last year, but was saved from complete humiliation by Oklahoma's Orange Bowl victory, has fallen completely to pieces... |
Sports Central
August 1, 2005
Dave Golokhov |
I Hate Mondays: The Rose Bowl The sweet-smelling Rose Bowl will host this year's BCS National Championship Game -- and differing strength of schedules makes the task less, or more, arduous for the premier teams to get there. |
Sports Central
November 28, 2011
David Exum |
Alabama a Worthy Rematch For LSU By manhandling Auburn 42-14 in the Iron Bowl, Alabama stated its case why it deserves to play No. 1 LSU in the BCS National Championship Game on Jan. 9. |
Sports Central
November 16, 2007
Kyle Jahner |
Ducking a Kansas Comet So how many losses will the teams in the BCS title game in New Orleans have? |
Sports Central
September 9, 2013
Ross Lancaster |
The Cardinals' Dilemma In college football, more than any other sport, the early games matter due to a system that is reliant on human subjectivity. It's why millions love the sport and are frustrated with it at the same time. |
Sports Illustrated
January 4, 2001
Tim Layden |
Musings on a completed season The BCS worked. Technically. Truth is, Oklahoma bailed out the computers and commissioners who devised the three-year-old Bowl Championship Series. Miami should have been in the Orange Bowl, not Florida State. And even then, Washington would have complained... |
Sports Central
November 10, 2008
Andrew Jones |
How the BCS Could Become a Nightmare Solutions are offered for problems brewing in the BCS. |
Sports Central
December 9, 2009
Andrew Jones |
Is College Football Unfixable? There are many things we can't change about college football, but there are two things that can be changed that will quite easily make the game better. |
Sports Central
November 26, 2012
Ross Lancaster |
The Case for Florida After Notre Dame's 22-13 win against USC effectively clinched its spot in Miami on Jan. 7, the Fighting Irish will almost surely play the winner of next Saturday's SEC Championship Game between Georgia and Florida for the BCS crown. |
