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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 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
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
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
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 6, 2007
Kevin Beane |
Slant Pattern Mailbag by Proxy Answering letters to the editor of a college football publication. |
Sports Central
November 29, 2003
Piet Van Leer |
The Worst Idea in Sports I hate the Bowl Championship Series. Hate it, hate it, hate it. I hate everything about it. I hate the people who created it, the people who defend it, and as a result, I'm beginning to hate college football because of it. |
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 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 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
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
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
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
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. |
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
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 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
October 1, 2012
Adam Russell |
Is the Offensive Explosion an Omen? With all this offensive production on both sides of the field, could this be an omen of things to come in college football? |
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
January 7, 2008
Adam Russell |
Are Two "Best" Teams in BCS Title Game? A proposed playoff system for college football. |
Sports Central
December 8, 2008
Andrew Jones |
Where the BCS is Truly Flawed Three fundamental flaws with the BCS this season. |
Sports Central
November 10, 2008
Andrew Jones |
How the BCS Could Become a Nightmare Solutions are offered for problems brewing in the BCS. |
Salon.com
September 22, 2000
Allen Barra |
The NFL's minor league? The marketing firms and New York pundits who want a college football playoff system have one thing in common: They don't like or understand 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
January 6, 2010
Andrew Jones |
Realigning College Football's Conferences The Big Ten announced last month that it would be seeking an expansion from 11 to 12. |
Sports Central
October 10, 2011
Ross Lancaster |
Collision Course October is a time of sorting in college football. Teams have largely ceased to play non-conference opposition for the balance of the season, and have now moved into the meat of the season, conference play, whereby seasons will largely be judged. |
Sports Central
November 21, 2007
Adam Russell |
BCS Still a Muddy Mess It is possible that only one of the top five teams in the BCS standings could end up in the National Championship Game -- Ohio State. |
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
August 15, 2011
Matt Thomas |
Wait Till Next Year? No, Wait Till June! Major League Baseball has on the table a proposed rule change that would result in an increase in the number of playoff teams from eight to 10. |
Sports Central
June 7, 2006
Brad Oremland |
Too Much, Too Soon The pressure and attention that come with being at the top, being constantly monitored, is tremendous. |
Sports Central
November 21, 2011
Paul Foeller |
What a Mess College football now has six one-loss teams, half of which haven't lost to anyone outside of the top-10, and an undefeated Houston team -- leaving eight teams (including LSU) with legitimate claims of a rightful place in the national title game. |
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
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 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 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
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 21, 2015
Joe Messineo |
Can Clemson Hold On to the Top Spot? The Clemson Tigers, are the No. 1 seed in this year's playoff bracket and are the only undefeated team in the College Football Playoffs. |
Sports Central
December 3, 2015
Kevin Beane |
Slant Pattern Mailbag Readers ask questions on tennis, soccer, and football. |
Sports Illustrated
October 19, 2001
Tim Layden |
Converted OK, I finally get why college football needs a playoff... |
Sports Central
November 16, 2015
Ross Lancaster |
In Defense of Larger Conferences Conference title games on the first Saturday of December have become an inescapable part of a college football season's drama. Now, of the 10 conferences that play FBS football, only the Big 12 and Sun Belt don't have a conference title game. |
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
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. |
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. |
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
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 22, 2012
Corrie Trouw |
Philosophical Differences With a full month of action to make the college football season's most dramatic decisions, I have made up my mind on how 2012's final act should be written. |
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. |
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
August 29, 2012
Adam Russell |
NFL Preseason Performance Rarely Translates With only one week left in the NFL preseason schedule, many fans are either hoping that their team's success will carry over into the regular season, while others are hoping their team's poor showing is just the preseason kinks being worked out. |
Sports Central
March 26, 2008
Scott Shepherd |
The Real Sweet 16 Here is the Real Sweet 16: 16 reasons to watch the NBA stretch run over the round of 16. |
