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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
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. |
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. |
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
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 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 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
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
November 3, 2008
Corrie Trouw |
Ballot Bias It's election season again, college football voters, so take a few minutes and think about what each candidate has done to deserve your vote. |
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. |
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. |
Searcher
Jul/Aug 2003
Richard Wiggins |
Behind the Screen: The Privilege of Ranking: Google Plays Ball A look at Google's original PageRank algorithm, reasons that it has needed tweaking, and shortcomings of popularity-based rankings. |
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
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
December 10, 2008
Matt Thomas |
Not-So-Extreme Makeover: BCS Edition Suggestions for revamping bowl selection process. |
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
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
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? |
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
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
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 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
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
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
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 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
January 17, 2012
Paul Foeller |
Hold on a SEC It seems like next year is set up perfectly to give the SEC its seventh straight championship -- three of the teams (Alabama, Arkansas, and LSU) likely to make the preseason top five will come from the same division within the SEC. |
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 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 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
October 30, 2001
Ivan Maisel |
Fit to Be Tied By creating a three-way logjam in the ACC, Florida State got a chad up on a BCS bid... |
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 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
August 26, 2008
Ryan Day |
Why Georgia Should Not Be Ranked No. 1 Why is it the BCS came out with a top 25 list that has Georgia at the top? Either the computers have gone haywire, or that's a real jab in the side of every other college program in the nation. |
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
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
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 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. |
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
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 11, 2001
Alexander Wolff & Austin Murphy |
Title Contention The BCS or a playoff? The debate's hotter than ever this year... |
Sports Central
January 9, 2012
Adam Russell |
Simulation Shows That BCS Got it Right While we still rail at the BCS for putting two teams from the same conference in the title game, maybe the polls, computers, and other factors that rank the schools got it right. |
Sports Central
December 12, 2011
Bill Hazell |
Sizing Up the BCS Buffet Table Without a playoff, we have once again, what amounts to a large buffet spread of bowl games, none of which get any of their teams closer to the championship -- well, not this year's championship, anyway. |
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. |
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
December 8, 2008
Andrew Jones |
Where the BCS is Truly Flawed Three fundamental flaws with the BCS this season. |
Science News
December 16, 2006
Ivars Peterson |
Rankings, Tournaments, and Playoffs All outcome-based sports ranking systems are fundamentally flawed. |
Sports Central
January 13, 2004
Adam Russell |
The Best College Football Team? So who really is the best team in college football: USC or LSU? Neither. Using a complex formula of statistics, results and variables, the top team in NCAA Division 1-A football is... |
Sports Central
December 1, 2008
Kyle Jahner |
Changing Conference "Championship" Games As usual, college football's quest for a champion is a train wreck. |
