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Sports Central January 4, 2005 Adam Russell |
Exciting Bowl Season Coming to a Close The number of close, exciting games -- and some surprises -- made for an enjoyable couple of weeks. Now, an outstanding bowl season is about to conclude. |
Sports Central December 8, 2005 Kevin Beane |
Forecasting the Bowls Twenty-eight college-football bowl games; twenty-eight fearless predictions. |
Sports Central December 20, 2010 Adam Russell |
A Case For Bowl Contraction Well, here we are with another bowl season upon us, the supposed "postseason" of college football. But I'm not as interested in this bowl season as I have been in the past. |
Sports Central December 27, 2011 Jean Neuberger |
The State of the 2011-2012 Bowl Season Hopefully the rest of the bowl season is as exciting as some of these early bowl games have been. It should be a lot of fun as the college football season concludes. |
Sports Central December 23, 2009 Kyle Jahner |
Deck the Halls (and the BCS): Bowl Predictions The 11 most interesting bowl games of the season -- because 11 is a nice even number. |
Sports Illustrated December 18, 2000 B.J. Schecter |
Fearless Bowl Predictions Picking a winner in the Orange, Sugar, Fiesta or Rose bowl is no big deal. But who will emerge victorious in the Galleryfurniture.com Bowl, the MicronPC.com Bowl or the Humanitarian Bowl? Tune in below to find out... |
Sports Central January 14, 2008 Kyle Jahner |
College Football Bowl Season Recap Renaming college bowl games after the fact. |
Sports Illustrated January 4, 2001 Ivan Maisel |
SI's All-Bowl Team Only a handful of them were vying for the national title, but each of these players was -- for one game -- No. 1 at his position, thus earning a spot on our postseason roster... |
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 8, 2008 Andrew Jones |
Where the BCS is Truly Flawed Three fundamental flaws with the BCS this season. |
Sports Central December 3, 2012 Jean Neuberger |
Instant Reaction: The 2012-13 Bowl Season It's 35 games and three and a half weeks of pure football feasting. Another December and bowl season has fallen upon us. And as the matchups are now official, here's a rundown of initial thoughts as we head into the final stretch of the 2012 college football season. |
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 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 24, 2007 Kyle Jahner |
A College Football Christmas Wish List First, let the Boise State Broncos win a game in Hawaii... |
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 January 12, 2009 Kyle Jahner |
Another Nebulous Finish Last year, there seemed to be no champion. This year, there are arguably three. Maybe four. But since the BCS pretends it can do the impossible, we are left with the same empty feeling in the pit of the stomach at the end. |
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 July 12, 2012 Andrew Jones |
The BCS Four-Team Playoff: Really Better? Under the new agreement, the BCS Bowl Games (Orange, Fiesta, Sugar, and Rose) will take turns hosting the semifinals for the national championship with the winners of those two games meeting to determine a winner. |
Sports Central September 10, 2007 Adam Russell |
Wild and Wacky Week 2 What a crazy weekend it was in college football: huge upsets, massive blowouts, and squeakers -- and those were just the Top 25 games! |
Sports Central December 27, 2010 Andrew Jones |
BCS Bowl Game Predications In a year where the BCS got it right (or as right as is possible) at the top, I am still looking forward to the Rose Bowl more than any other game, including the national championship. |
Salon.com November 23, 2002 King Kaufman |
Let's have an argument! It's good to have a real sport that's messy and silly and dumb, and Division I football's method of crowning a champion is all of that. |
Sports Central December 22, 2008 Brian Cox |
Bowl-Palooza: The Games to Watch Here's a look at a few bowl games that should be entertaining going through Christmas, through the ball dropping up to most people getting over hangovers on the morning of January 1, 2009. |
Sports Central July 31, 2008 Brian Cox |
ACC Has a Lot to Prove in 2008 Why does the ACC have so much to prove? In the grand scheme of the picture in college football, they haven't mattered in the last eight years. Here's a look why. |
Sports Central December 7, 2015 Jonathan Lowe |
The Substandard Bowl I feel like I'm a voice dying in the wind against the growing investment known as the "College Bowl Game." |
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 December 4, 2000 Ivan Maisel |
Chat Reel A chat about the college football bowl season and the Heisman Trophy... |
Sports Central November 30, 2005 Jeff Pohlmeyer |
A Playoff in College Football? Like it or not, there is no fool-proof way to decide a national champion. |
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 January 9, 2012 Adam Russell |
Simulation Shows That BCS Got it Right While we still rail at the BCS for putting two teams from the same conference in the title game, maybe the polls, computers, and other factors that rank the schools got it right. |
Sports Central November 28, 2007 Rich Lyons |
BCS, Heisman Races Coming Into Focus Just when you thought it couldn't get any more crazy, it did. |
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. |
The Motley Fool December 29, 2006 Nathan Slaughter |
A Fool Goes Bowling Which title sponsor will be crowned Wall Street's Champ? Corporate America has stamped its signature indelibly on the most visible face of college athletics. The benefits from such an investment are impossible to calculate, but they clearly wouldn't be made without a winning game plan in mind. |
Sports Central December 8, 2004 Adam Russell |
BCS Works This Time ... Sort Of Once again, the BCS has left a sour taste in the mouths of college football fans... Once again, a Pac-10 team gets the short end of the stick... Once again, a couple of not-so-deserving teams get to play in one of the big four bowls... |
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 January 7, 2008 Adam Russell |
Are Two "Best" Teams in BCS Title Game? A proposed playoff system for college football. |
Sports Central December 10, 2008 Matt Thomas |
Not-So-Extreme Makeover: BCS Edition Suggestions for revamping bowl selection process. |
Sports Illustrated December 20, 2000 Austin Murphy |
Bowled over I had no idea, when I took over this beat, that federal law forbids one from covering college football without posting one's bowl predictions... |
Sports Central December 26, 2003 M. Edward Guest |
The Definition of Clutch Which team, since 1959, has the highest clutch score for a single season? If you're a college football fan, you probably already know. |
Sports Central August 11, 2014 Corrie Trouw |
CFB 2014: Giving Away the Ending We see the unusual every year; that's why we love 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. |
BusinessWeek December 9, 2010 Joel Stein |
How College Bowls Got Over-Commercialized Like many sports traditions, the college bowl system keeps getting bigger - and sillier. |
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. |
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. |
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 December 12, 2012 Joshua Duffy |
2012 College Football Bowl Pool Guide College football is stupid. Not the sport itself, but how it runs its post-season. Even when we get our long-awaited playoff, it's still going to be stupid. |
Sports Central November 25, 2009 Kyle Jahner |
Thanksgiving Prep: Setting the Table Here's a rundown: what happened, and what we learned from the third-to-last week of college football. |
Sports Central January 29, 2007 Kyle Jahner |
Lesson Learned From Bowl Season What December and January taught us about college football. |
Sports Central December 14, 2007 Matt Thomas |
Ten Bowlfuls of Entertainment The only thing standing between the collective college faithful and that January 7th BCS Championship Game are the 30-something "other" bowls that get played between now and then. |
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. |
AskMen.com Daniel Morin |
Top 10: Cool College Bowl Games Of 2006-07 A list based on a combination of the history and prestige associated with the game itself, as well as lifestyle factors that affect daily life in the host city. |