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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. |
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 Central October 6, 2014 Ross Lancaster |
Who is This Year's Auburn? If you haven't realized it by now, the frantic chase to the first College Football Playoff is officially on. |
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 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 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 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 September 19, 2010 Andrew Jones |
How Virginia Tech Screwed Boise State Boise State started the year with a 33-30 victory over Virginia Tech that made a lot of people think that this would finally be the year they would have a legitimate shot at being selected to the National Championship Game. |
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 8, 2008 Andrew Jones |
Where the BCS is Truly Flawed Three fundamental flaws with the BCS this season. |
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 September 18, 2007 Wailele Sallas |
What About the Little Guy? Our college football society has taken away the little guy and replaced it with overpowering BCS schools that have a golden ticket to the big game. |
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... |
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 Central December 1, 2008 Kyle Jahner |
Changing Conference "Championship" Games As usual, college football's quest for a champion is a train wreck. |
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 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 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 October 31, 2007 Matt Thomas |
The BCS is a Good Thing ... No, Really Nine tried and true reasons to believe in the Bowl Championship Series and its value to college football. |
Sports Central November 8, 2010 Vito Curcuru |
Is Boise State vs. TCU Still Possible? TCU has two games left and it is doubtful San Diego State and New Mexico will help their BCS title game hopes with anything but style points. |
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 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 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 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 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 November 27, 2006 Alfons Prince |
Down to the Wire ... Again With only one week left in the 2006 college football regular season, it is looking like the bowl championship series (BCS) will once again escape any major controversy. |
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 1, 2008 Andrew Jones |
Ranking College Football Conferences There are too few games in the college football season for a subjective ranking system to matter all too much. |
Sports Central October 11, 2010 Vito Curcuru |
Halfway to the Heisman Trophy As other teams begin their BCS championship run, Heisman candidates will begin to emerge from all around the country. |
Sports Central August 19, 2008 Josh Galligan |
A Case For a College Football Playoff It would be better if more than two college football teams had the opportunity to play for the national championship. |
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 October 10, 2011 Ross Lancaster |
Collision Course October is a time of sorting in college football. Teams have largely ceased to play non-conference opposition for the balance of the season, and have now moved into the meat of the season, conference play, whereby seasons will largely be judged. |
Sports Central January 17, 2012 Paul Foeller |
Hold on a SEC It seems like next year is set up perfectly to give the SEC its seventh straight championship -- three of the teams (Alabama, Arkansas, and LSU) likely to make the preseason top five will come from the same division within the SEC. |
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 August 14, 2013 Andrew Jones |
An Anti-Conference Approach The past few years have seen a plague of movement in college football conferences to the point where the names don't even make any sense anymore. |
Sports Central September 18, 2006 Matt De Lima |
What a Spectacular Seperation Saturday What a day of college football. I am nearly speechless. Separation Saturday lived up to its billing and then some ... and then some! |
Sports Central September 21, 2009 Kyle Jahner |
Dealing and Reeling So who is the emerging team in college football that could do damage on a national level? |
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 October 22, 2012 Corrie Trouw |
Philosophical Differences With a full month of action to make the college football season's most dramatic decisions, I have made up my mind on how 2012's final act should be written. |
Sports Central November 14, 2012 Andrew Jones |
What Alabama's Loss Means For BCS College football fans were worried a choice between Kansas State and Oregon for the right to battle Alabama for the national championship would be close to impossible to make and then the unthinkable happened: Alabama lost. |
Sports Central September 9, 2009 Ross Lancaster |
The Exclusionary Tactics of the BCS Conferences The unchecked metaphorical parliament of the BCS believes that the Mountain West Conference has not reached its electoral threshold, despite evidence to the contrary, and has the current system locked in until 2013. |
Sports Illustrated November 8, 2000 B.J. Schecter |
Fearless Predictions College football fans, you are not alone. There is something just as convoluted and mind-boggling as the BCS. And the electoral college has existed for more than two centuries. So for one week, we will forget about the game's problems and embrace college football for what it is -- a game... |
Sports Central November 5, 2012 Jonathan Lowe |
Valid Excuses When everything settles down on December 2nd, we'll have our championship matchup for this year. Assuming the Ducks, Wildcats, and Irish all win out, it should be fun to find out which team gets the chance to validate more than just their fans' parking at the area hotels in Miami. |
Fast Company November 2010 Rachel Arndt |
College Football by the Numbers America loves its college football, even if we'd like to throw a gazillion penalty flags at the Bowl Championship Series. Here's a look at the business of the BCS, bowl season, and college football, by the numbers. |
Sports Central January 29, 2007 Kyle Jahner |
Lesson Learned From Bowl Season What December and January taught us about college football. |
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. |
Sports Central October 27, 2014 Jonathan Lowe |
The Month-Long Journey We enter the month of November, when, in the world of college football, hearts are broken and dreams are dashed. For those with hope, it's a long time coming ... and a long ways yet to go. |
Sports Central November 4, 2013 Adam Russell |
BCS Chase: Can the Unbeatens Remain? So here we go, heading into the final month of the college football season. Seven teams remain unbeaten with five of those having legitimate shots at playing in the final BCS championship game come next January. |
Sports Central December 6, 2007 Kevin Beane |
Slant Pattern Mailbag by Proxy Answering letters to the editor of a college football publication. |
Sports Central August 1, 2013 Adam Russell |
Highlights of College Football's Opening Weekend With the college football season set to kick off in a little more than a month, many fans and nearly every preseason publication likes to peruse through the schedule to see what the most intriguing, compelling, or critical matchups might be. |