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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 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 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
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
August 23, 2010
Ross Lancaster |
An Independent Streak of Lunacy? BYU's program is stable enough that it doesn't need a conference. |
Sports Central
April 10, 2010
Andrew Jones |
Could This Be the Year For Boise State? The Boise State Broncos will need some help to get to the National Championship Game. Here are some scenarios that will help. |
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
January 28, 2014
Adam Russell |
Now is Time to Radically Change College Football The NCAA needs to completely revamp what its football conferences look like, how games are scheduled and how the post-season selections are made. |
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 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
August 24, 2004
David Martin |
College Football Preview: Big 12 and WAC The Western Athletic Conference is one of those college football conferences that, once upon a time, carried some amount of respect. |
Sports Central
August 14, 2007
Ross Lancaster |
Answering the Major/Mid-Major Question Deciding what conferences belong in the mid-major and major categories. |
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 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
February 9, 2012
Kevin Beane |
Week 1 College Football Preview As I do every year in this space, I look ahead and present my preview of the next college football season, which happens to be the earliest such preview known to man. |
Sports Central
November 29, 2010
Jonathan Lowe |
A Chance to Give Thanks Bright spots in each college football division. |
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
May 23, 2012
Jean Neuberger |
The Newest Game Changer It was just an announcement of a bowl game. Yet, in this never-ending maze of realignment in college athletics, it was a day that could possibly live in football infamy. |
Sports Central
December 15, 2011
Kevin Beane |
The Best and Worst College Incumbents Here are the best coaches that have not been tabbed -- yet -- to a move to a more illustrious program. |
Sports Central
September 29, 2011
Kevin Beane |
Anatomy of Upsets This past week was a banner week for upsets in college football. We saw not one, not two, but three 1-AA (my boycott of the term "FCS" continues apace) teams beat 1-A (ditto "FBS") sides. |
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
July 14, 2009
Jean Neuberger |
SC's Play This Team, Not That Team Better, more interesting options for the college football fan. |
Sports Central
December 4, 2006
Seth Doria |
NCAA Tournament Sleeper Watch Here is a list of "underdog" teams capable of making at least a Sweet 16 run as an eight-seed or lower in the 2007 NCAA tournament. |
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
February 10, 2011
Kevin Beane |
2011 College Football Week 1 Preview The Super Bowl is over, but here's a college football preview to give football fans something happy to think about for the next half year. |
Sports Central
March 8, 2012
Adam Russell |
Confusing Geographical Lines When I was a kid, I excelled at U.S. geography, partially because I knew my college football conferences like the back of my hand. And they all made sense. |
Sports Central
August 30, 2007
Kevin Beane |
Under the Radar Games for Week 1 These Week 1 college football matchups have interesting angles of their own watch. |
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
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
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, 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 14, 2007
Ryan Day |
SEC: Overrated or Underappreciated? Don't be surprised if the Southeastern Conference takes home another national championship. |
Sports Central
August 30, 2005
Jonathan Lowe |
Five Picks to Click to in 2005 Of the 1,300+ college football contests slated for 2005, here are five games to watch this season. Each one of these battles should be what college football fans love -- nip and tuck. |
Sports Central
May 29, 2014
Jean Neuberger |
Time For NCAA Mid-Majors to Act In a world where the premier conferences are seeking autonomy and building more power through the new college football playoff, the mid-major conferences appear ... stuck. |
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
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
April 13, 2006
Kevin Beane |
Four Months and 18 Days Four months and 18 days is how long we have to wait for college football to arrive. And here are the best 10 games (non-conference or otherwise, in no particular order) that will kick off week one. |
Sports Central
November 10, 2005
Kevin Beane |
College Football Third Quarter Report Conference championship predictions. And a comment that has readers chomping at the bit. |
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 8, 2008
Andrew Jones |
Where the BCS is Truly Flawed Three fundamental flaws with the BCS this season. |
Sports Central
December 10, 2008
Matt Thomas |
Not-So-Extreme Makeover: BCS Edition Suggestions for revamping bowl selection process. |
Sports Central
March 13, 2013
Jean Neuberger |
The Rise of the New Big East While realignment killed some rivalries and made dramatic changes to the geographic map, seven Catholic schools got it right. Instead of creating new leagues and identities, they went back to their roots. They'll be better off for it, as will college basketball. |
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 Central
June 9, 2011
Jean Neuberger |
First and 10: 10 Burning Thoughts Ten thoughts that are racing to the top of my head as we're now less than 100 days until college football kicks off? |
Sports Central
August 25, 2005
Adam Russell |
Top 10 Non-Conference Games in '05 Some of the most interesting matchups and exciting games to watch are non-conference games. Of the top 10 non-conference matchups, 9 take place in September. |
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 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
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 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
August 28, 2009
Kyle Jahner |
State of the Imperfect, But Glorious, Union I'm happier that college football is arriving next week than Donte Stallworth on sentencing day. |
