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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
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
December 11, 2001
Alexander Wolff & Austin Murphy |
Title Contention The BCS or a playoff? The debate's hotter than ever this year... |
Sports Illustrated
October 19, 2001
Tim Layden |
Converted OK, I finally get why college football needs a playoff... |
Sports Central
March 9, 2011
Ryan Day |
On March Madness March Madness isn't perfect, and I think even the most ardent college basketball apologist would agree with me. |
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 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
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
March 28, 2011
Adam Russell |
March Madness? How About March Insanity? Who would have thought that this year's Final Four would be comprised of an eight-seed, an 11-seed (both being mid-majors), and a couple traditional powers not seeded No. 1? |
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 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 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
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 5, 2011
Corrie Trouw |
LSU/Alabama II: The BCS Lump of Coal This season's BCS championship offers us an early January sale on LSU/Alabama whether we want it or not. |
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
January 16, 2013
Greg Suttich |
March Madness Starts in January As we near the end of another NFL football season, we start to feel the blues. But then March comes and the event called March Madness gets us back on our couches cheering and fist-bumping over our favorite team while keeping our brackets and a pen within arms reach. |
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. |
Sports Central
October 13, 2011
Kevin Beane |
Week 1 College Basketball Preview As the college football season gets into full swing, we will soon have yet another "favorite sports time of the year" for this writer. |
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
March 14, 2001
Ivan Maisel |
'January Madness' just can't happen Each sport has its own charms. A playoff could be developed for college football, but don't think for a moment it would be March Madness come early. Here are a few of the things that would be missing... |
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 1, 2008
Kyle Jahner |
Changing Conference "Championship" Games As usual, college football's quest for a champion is a train wreck. |
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 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 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
November 10, 2008
Andrew Jones |
How the BCS Could Become a Nightmare Solutions are offered for problems brewing in the BCS. |
Sports Central
May 19, 2011
Kevin Beane |
Early-Season College Hoops Matchups It takes until pretty close to the season for all the Division 1 schools to say, "okay, here is our schedule" to where it can be reliably released to the media. |
Sports Illustrated
November 27, 2000
B.J. Schecter |
Fearless Predictions It has been a wild year in college football, and any one of the Top 25 teams could make a run at the title if a playoff existed. Since one doesn't, we already know only three teams have a chance to be crowned national champions. College basketball is another story, though... |
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
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
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
November 28, 2005
Jonathan Lowe |
Early Tourneys Over the BCS? March Madness has the BCS beat, hands-down. But there seems to be more potential for excitement and hope as sneakers squeak for the first time in months. |
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
March 4, 2013
Jonathan Lowe |
No Matter What? The author discusses the ups and downs of a single season for college football and basketball teams. |
Sports Central
March 25, 2009
Ross Lancaster |
Missed Opportunities and No Cinderella The media-driven creation of parity in college basketball is dead. |
Sports Central
December 29, 2009
Jonathan Lowe |
When Madness Goes Insane Talks are ramping up to expand the NCAA men's basketball tournament again. |
Sports Central
December 8, 2014
Ross Lancaster |
College Football's Selection Committee Got it Right The four-team playoff is the one that makes the most sense for college football. |
Sports Central
January 7, 2009
Andrew Jones |
Is Perfection Still Attainable? The University of North Carolina Tar Heels men basketball team were undefeated until their recent game against Boston College. Will they be able to go 39-0 next year? |
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
March 11, 2010
Vito Curcuru |
9 Reasons to Expand the NCAA Tournament It's time for the NCAA tournament to expand to 347. |
Sports Central
February 20, 2013
Ross Lancaster |
The Season to Expect the Unexpected As a college basketball fan, I can't begin to keep track of the number of times someone has told me, "The regular season doesn't mean anything. I'm just waiting for the tournament to start." No, I would always say or think. |
Sports Central
August 11, 2014
Corrie Trouw |
CFB 2014: Giving Away the Ending We see the unusual every year; that's why we love college football. |
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 Central
December 30, 2013
Adam Russell |
SEC's Run in the BCS Will End With FSU It seems only fitting that the one school that played in the first three BCS-era championship games -- winning one -- would close this chapter of college football history with a national title. Florida State appears to be a team destined to win it all. |
Sports Central
March 22, 2010
Scott Shepherd |
Why March Madness is Overrated Not only do I not believe that everyone loves March Madness, I'm not sold on the fact that they even believe it. |
Sports Central
April 7, 2010
Jean Neuberger |
NCAA Tournament Winners and Losers From the first day until the last heave by Gordon Heyward that just missed, March Madness outdid itself this year. |
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 21, 2011
Adam Russell |
College Hoops Surprises and Disappointments With only about three weeks remaining in the college basketball season, many fans and pundits are starting to look at the potential March Madness brackets. |
Sports Central
December 3, 2008
Wailele Sallas |
65 Reasons and the BCS Ain't One Here are 65 reasons why college basketball is better than college football. |
Sports Central
November 4, 2013
Adam Russell |
BCS Chase: Can the Unbeatens Remain? So here we go, heading into the final month of the college football season. Seven teams remain unbeaten with five of those having legitimate shots at playing in the final BCS championship game come next January. |
