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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. |
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 October 2, 2007 Kyle Jahner |
Chaos on Campuses After the most turbulent week of college football in recent memory, you have to wonder if pollsters and experts were just picking schools out of a hat. |
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 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 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 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 Central October 12, 2005 Avery Smith |
Bluebook Notes #5: Pasadena Projections A closer look at the ten teams with the best shot at heading to the Rose Bowl. |
Sports Central October 23, 2009 Kyle Jahner |
College Football Midterm Report There are three teams that, as expected, are very good if not great. |
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. |
AskMen.com Paul Bessire |
Top 5: BCS Champions WhatIfSports takes the Bowl College Series to the next level by creating a simulated tournament of all 10 champions. |
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 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 Central October 15, 2007 Adam Russell |
Is Pac-10's Parity Mediocrity or Strength? Was the Pac-10 Conference worth its mettle this season - or was just another year of mediocrity? |
Sports Central October 28, 2004 Kevin Beane |
Battle of the Undefeateds Two weeks ago, there were 14 undefeated teams in college football. Now there are half that. But it shouldn't be too much to ask for two or three teams to finish undefeated. Here are there chances? |
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 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 November 16, 2007 Kyle Jahner |
Ducking a Kansas Comet So how many losses will the teams in the BCS title game in New Orleans have? |
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 January 29, 2007 Kyle Jahner |
Lesson Learned From Bowl Season What December and January taught us about college football. |
Sports Central January 7, 2008 Adam Russell |
Are Two "Best" Teams in BCS Title Game? A proposed playoff system for college football. |
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 November 2, 2015 Joe Messineo |
What to Expect From the Playoff Committee We are 10 weeks into the 2015 college football season, just the second ever that will culminate in a four-team playoff to decide the national champion. |
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 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 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 October 15, 2012 Paul Foeller |
What a Load of BCS BCS ranked Florida Gators at No. 2. It's not that the Gators are a bad team, or even a mediocre team. It's just hard to imagine a team with an offense that disappears for stretches as often as this one does going to the championship game. |
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 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 January 4, 2005 Adam Russell |
Exciting Bowl Season Coming to a Close The number of close, exciting games -- and some surprises -- made for an enjoyable couple of weeks. Now, an outstanding bowl season is about to conclude. |
Sports Central September 10, 2007 Adam Russell |
Wild and Wacky Week 2 What a crazy weekend it was in college football: huge upsets, massive blowouts, and squeakers -- and those were just the Top 25 games! |
Sports Central November 28, 2007 Rich Lyons |
BCS, Heisman Races Coming Into Focus Just when you thought it couldn't get any more crazy, it did. |
Sports Central August 31, 2010 Kyle Jahner |
The College Football Rollercoaster Less than a decade ago, Alabama was an SEC afterthought, as sanctions had slowly worn down the proud program. Now they are defending national champions, remain loaded, and will be ranked No. 1 until someone takes down the champs. |
Sports Central October 21, 2013 Andrew Jones |
Perfection Possibilities Teams are lining up to see if they can make it to the end of the NCAA football season unscathed. |
Sports Central September 4, 2008 Kyle Jahner |
College Football Week 1 Shakedown A recap of the first week of college football games looks at upsets and rankings. |
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. |
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 December 14, 2007 Matt Thomas |
Ten Bowlfuls of Entertainment The only thing standing between the collective college faithful and that January 7th BCS Championship Game are the 30-something "other" bowls that get played between now and then. |
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 November 1, 2004 David Martin |
College Football Ramblings Into November Is it okay with everyone else if we just hand Southern California the national championship?... When was the last time a guy who was being handed the Heisman in mid-October got benched before November?... etc. |
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 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 January 14, 2008 Kyle Jahner |
College Football Bowl Season Recap Renaming college bowl games after the fact. |
Sports Central December 8, 2005 Kevin Beane |
Forecasting the Bowls Twenty-eight college-football bowl games; twenty-eight fearless predictions. |
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 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 6, 2004 Michael Beshara |
Musings on Opening Day Some thoughts on the first full Saturday of College football. |
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 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 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. |