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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 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 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 Illustrated November 20, 2000 Jack McCallum |
BCS means bogus college standings Calling for a national championship playoff... |
CIO November 1, 2002 Scott Berinato |
The Geeks Behind No. 1 For five years now, college football has crowned its champion through its much-debated Bowl Championship Series (BCS) system. The BCS uses opinion polls, strength-of-schedule calculations, seven statistical ranking systems and its own mathematical formulas. |
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 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 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. |
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 10, 2008 Matt Thomas |
Not-So-Extreme Makeover: BCS Edition Suggestions for revamping bowl selection process. |
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 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 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 8, 2008 Andrew Jones |
Where the BCS is Truly Flawed Three fundamental flaws with the BCS this season. |
CIO November 1, 2002 Scott Berinato |
Choosing Huskers over Ducks Last year, before any bowl games were played, coaches and sportswriters ranked the Oregon Ducks No. 2 in the land, ahead of the No. 4 Nebraska Cornhuskers. Both had 10-1 records. Yet the BCS ranked Nebraska 2nd and Oregon 4th. Here's how the two came to opposite conclusion. |
Sports Central November 14, 2005 Alfons Prince |
For Once, BCS is Avoiding Controversy With the college football season coming to a close, the participants for this year's national championship game are pretty close to being finalized. |
BusinessWeek October 4, 2004 Keith Dunnavant |
The Muddle In The BCS Huddle Will a deal to expand the college football Bowl Championship Series get sacked by TV? |
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 Illustrated July 16, 2001 Jack McCallum |
The weak in sports Last week the International Olympic Committee gave the 2008 Olympics to a country with an abominable record of human rights that does not deserve the global pat on the back that the vote implies, and almost no one in the free-world athletic community said a damn thing in protest... |
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. |
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 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... |
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 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 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 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 Illustrated December 11, 2001 Alexander Wolff & Austin Murphy |
Title Contention The BCS or a playoff? The debate's hotter than ever this year... |
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 Illustrated December 4, 2000 Ivan Maisel |
Chat Reel A chat about the college football bowl season and the Heisman Trophy... |
Sports Central June 15, 2005 Adam Russell |
The BCS is Dead! Not Quite, But Almost With support waning, what is the future of the Bowl Championship Series? |
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 Illustrated June 26, 2002 Ivan Maisel |
BCS 'changes' don't amount to much Lesson to be taken from the changes in the BCS formula announced Tuesday: Bureaucracies are not nimble, except when evading responsibility. |
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 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 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 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 Illustrated November 22, 2002 Tim Layden |
Just win, baby College football's new mantra is in full bloom this season |
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 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 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 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. |
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 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 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 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 4, 2006 Ryan Day |
Congress to Tinker With BCS? House representative Joe Barton is heading up a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee of Congress to conduct research on the Bowl Championship Series and hold hearings, if necessary, if the BCS Bowl selections cause the uproar they did last year. |
Sports Illustrated November 26, 2001 Phil Taylor |
Hurricane season BCS nearly obscured Miami's dominance... |
Sports Central October 7, 2013 Ross Lancaster |
The ACC, Not Just For Basketball In the final year of the BCS, the ACC has its best chance since the heyday of Bobby Bowden and Chris Weinke to win a title. |
Sports Central November 18, 2003 Doug Graham |
Get Over it: Paterno is Staying Joe Paterno has to win games to be a successful head coach in college football, right? Apparently not. |