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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, 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... |
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 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
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 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
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
August 17, 2006
Adam Russell |
College Football '06 Winners and Losers To focus on the preseason, let's look at who the biggest "winners and losers" are from last year to this. |
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. |
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 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
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
November 7, 2006
Mark Chalifoux |
Smearing the BCS Opposition The Louisville Cardinals, currently third in the BCS rankings, are in a perfect position to play for the national championship. The only problem is that everyone hates them. |
Sports Central
November 3, 2005
Adam Russell |
2005 Shaping Up a Lot Like 1984 When it comes to college football, there are quite a few similarities between this year and 1984, a number of differences, and a really eerie coincidence. |
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 Illustrated
November 20, 2000
Jack McCallum |
BCS means bogus college standings Calling for a national championship playoff... |
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 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
February 18, 2009
Jonathan Lowe |
Wouldn't Touch it With a 25-Team Poll Do we need to have a top 25 poll in college basketball? |
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 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
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
October 21, 2004
Glen Willis |
BCS Resume Review: Cal The Golden Bears of California should be the highest ranked one-loss team in the country. Yet they continue to trail Florida State and Georgia in the Coaches Poll -- and only FSU in the AP. |
The Motley Fool
January 5, 2005
David Meier |
College Football and Stock Markets The purpose of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) is to reduce variation, just like the stock market. |
Sports Central
December 10, 2008
Matt Thomas |
Not-So-Extreme Makeover: BCS Edition Suggestions for revamping bowl selection process. |
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 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
October 27, 2004
Adam Russell |
Facelift in Order For College Football What college football needs is a complete overhaul of how it's structured, from the conference alignments to how the schedules are made up to determining a playoff system. |
Sports Central
December 8, 2008
Andrew Jones |
Where the BCS is Truly Flawed Three fundamental flaws with the BCS this season. |
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
March 10, 2009
Kyle Jahner |
Longhorns Brown-Nosing Again Enjoy watching Texas relentlessly pile it on to any over-matched opponents in 2009. And enjoy listening to Mack Brown whine about what the Longhorns did in their wins when it is their losses that keep them out of Pasadena. |
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 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
September 3, 2007
Ryan Day |
The Folly in Preseason Rankings Preseason rankings are completely meaningless and only serve to make teams look better than they ever are. |
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 Central
October 26, 2005
Avery Smith |
Bluebook Notes #7: BCS Conference Rankings Each year, there is a debate as to which college football conference is the toughest in the country. Here is a ranking of the six BCS conferences based upon the strength of the top third of their teams. |
Sports Central
November 7, 2008
Kyle Jahner |
Be Careful What You Wish For The call for a playoff has been resounding, and the disparagement of the BCS even more vitriolic. |
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 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 1, 2005
Avery Smith |
Bluebook Notes #10: BCS Top 10 A look at the top 10 teams in the BCS to see if they truly deserve their ranking... Five guys with the best chances of taking home the Heisman... This week's games to watch... |
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 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
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
November 10, 2008
Andrew Jones |
How the BCS Could Become a Nightmare Solutions are offered for problems brewing in the BCS. |
Sports Central
November 14, 2007
Ryan Day |
SEC: Overrated or Underappreciated? Don't be surprised if the Southeastern Conference takes home another national championship. |
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
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 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
October 18, 2005
Mark Chalifoux |
Weis Leads Notre Dame Into New Era Polls won't matter in the end if (when) Notre Dame takes care of business by winning out. |
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? |
