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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 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
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 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
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. |
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
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. |
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 Illustrated
December 14, 2001
Tim Layden |
Keep the BCS -- with a twist At this point, further BCS bashing is redundant. A system that failed last year, but was saved from complete humiliation by Oklahoma's Orange Bowl victory, has fallen completely to pieces... |
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 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.. |
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. |
Sports Illustrated
December 11, 2001
Alexander Wolff & Austin Murphy |
Title Contention The BCS or a playoff? The debate's hotter than ever this year... |
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
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. |
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 12, 2005
Mike Round |
Why NCAA Should Stick With Bowls Seven years after its inception, Congress has decided to look into the BCS in Division I-A football and why it's the only major sport without a playoff system. |
Sports Central
January 22, 2011
Josh Galligan |
The Obstacles Preventing a Playoff While the debate on whether the Bowl Championship Series or a college football playoff is the best for the game of college football is as heated as ever, there's a much simpler explanation to explain it all. |
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
December 10, 2008
Matt Thomas |
Not-So-Extreme Makeover: BCS Edition Suggestions for revamping bowl selection process. |
Sports Illustrated
October 19, 2001
Tim Layden |
Converted OK, I finally get why college football needs a playoff... |
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
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
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 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. |
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 Illustrated
December 13, 2001
Frank Deford |
Bowled under BCS leaves a lot to be desired... |
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
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
June 10, 2013
Jean Neuberger |
Eight is Enough For SEC ... Or is It? Alabama's Nick Saban called for the SEC to join other BCS schools in creating a new, nine game conference slate each season. Saban claims it's the best thing to do for the game itself. And, given the current state, Saban has a good point to make. |
AskMen.com
Chris Weiss |
Kirk Herbstreit Interview 10 minutes with ESPN college football analyst Kirk Herbstreit. |
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. |
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
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 21, 2005
William Geoghegan |
Is the BCS Really All Bad? From the moment the computers churned out the rankings that stuck Nebraska in the national championship a few years back, we had a travesty on our hands. |
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 Illustrated
March 14, 2002
Ivan Maisel |
The bottom line Kramer was unflinching, yet effective, while with the SEC... |
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
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
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 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
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
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
December 8, 2008
Andrew Jones |
Where the BCS is Truly Flawed Three fundamental flaws with the BCS this season. |
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
December 3, 2004
David Martin |
Bad Times For College Football Fans This college football season opened with as much hope and as great an expectation of success and great competition as any in recent memory. Now, we must consider what has gone wrong with the game of college football. |
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. |
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
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
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. |
