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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 11, 2001
Alexander Wolff & Austin Murphy |
Title Contention The BCS or a playoff? The debate's hotter than ever this year... |
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
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. |
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 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 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 Illustrated
October 19, 2001
Tim Layden |
Converted OK, I finally get why college football needs a playoff... |
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
April 12, 2006
Michael Beshara |
In Defense of the BCS As enjoyable as college basketball's March Madness may be, college football's BCS provides the opportunity for both a more exciting and more just crowning of a national champion. |
Sports Central
December 11, 2003
Eric Williams |
Giving Thanks Today, the college football world is in an uproar and the season has been thrown into utter chaos because of three little letters: BCS. Thank God for March Madness |
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 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 8, 2008
Andrew Jones |
Where the BCS is Truly Flawed Three fundamental flaws with the BCS this season. |
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
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
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 Illustrated
December 13, 2001
Frank Deford |
Bowled under BCS leaves a lot to be desired... |
Sports Illustrated
November 20, 2000
Jack McCallum |
BCS means bogus college standings Calling for a national championship playoff... |
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 Central
December 10, 2008
Matt Thomas |
Not-So-Extreme Makeover: BCS Edition Suggestions for revamping bowl selection process. |
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 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 Illustrated
November 22, 2002
Tim Layden |
Just win, baby College football's new mantra is in full bloom this season |
Sports Illustrated
September 12, 2000
Jack McCallum |
Bowled over by public funding There are two depressing revelations to draw from recent USA TODAY articles, the first being that Bowls are drinking at the public trough, the second that there are now 25 of these junky games. |
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
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
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 Illustrated
December 4, 2000
Ivan Maisel |
Chat Reel A chat about the college football bowl season and the Heisman Trophy... |
Sports Central
January 7, 2006
Adam Russell |
Rose Bowl Finishes Off Exciting Bowl Season More right-down-to-the-wire games than there have been in a while. Even some of the "who gives a care" bowls were worth watching to the final clicks off the clock. |
Sports Central
November 28, 2005
Jonathan Lowe |
Early Tourneys Over the BCS? March Madness has the BCS beat, hands-down. But there seems to be more potential for excitement and hope as sneakers squeak for the first time in months. |
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 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
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
November 20, 2001 |
Ivan Maisel's Burning Questions Is Nebraska vulnerable against Colorado?... Does Florida have a chance of overtaking Miami or the Nebraska-Oklahoma winner and getting into the Rose Bowl?... What is Been Down So Long, Shreveport Looks Up to Me?... |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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
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
November 20, 2003
M. Edward Guest |
Rivalry Weekend is Michigan's Time Once the Buckeyes (just after WWI) began to beat Michigan, and once they (after WWII) began to play the Wolverines roughly dead even, the Big Two of the Big 10 was clearly established. No other rivalry in the country has decided the conference championship quite like this one. |
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. |
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 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 10, 2008
Andrew Jones |
How the BCS Could Become a Nightmare Solutions are offered for problems brewing in the BCS. |
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 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 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... |
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. |
