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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 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, 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
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... |
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
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 Illustrated
December 13, 2001
Frank Deford |
Bowled under BCS leaves a lot to be desired... |
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 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
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
May 23, 2012
Jean Neuberger |
The Newest Game Changer It was just an announcement of a bowl game. Yet, in this never-ending maze of realignment in college athletics, it was a day that could possibly live in football infamy. |
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. |
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
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 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 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
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 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
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
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 Illustrated
October 19, 2001
Tim Layden |
Converted OK, I finally get why college football needs a playoff... |
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
December 22, 2000
Tim Layden |
'Noles are vulnerable without Minnis College football: Marvin (Snoop) Minnis declared ineligible for the Orange Bowl... Why Florida doesn't play Miami... New standards needed for bowl eligibility... |
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. |
Sports Central
August 19, 2015
Jean Neuberger |
Tougher Schedules, Tougher For Everyone Strength of schedule has always been a major issue in college football. |
Sports Illustrated
December 8, 2000
Austin Murphy |
No place to go Toledo snub exemplifies bowl problems... |
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
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
March 20, 2010
Vito Curcuru |
Who's Hot and Cold in Big Ten Expansion Talk Hot: William Blair Company -- Why is an investment firm hot? The Chicago Tribune recently reported that this investment firm evaluated five schools: Pittsburgh, Notre Dame, Missouri, Syracuse, and Rutgers for the purpose of Big Ten expansion. |
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
May 13, 2013
Jean Neuberger |
Lines in the Sand Seven consecutive national titles have established the might of the Southeastern Conference. The announcement of the SEC Network took no one by surprise. |
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
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 Illustrated
September 12, 2000
Jack McCallum |
Bowled over by public funding There are two depressing revelations to draw from recent USA TODAY articles, the first being that Bowls are drinking at the public trough, the second that there are now 25 of these junky games. |
Sports Central
April 28, 2014
Jean Neuberger |
SEC: Eight is Enough The SEC announced that they are not moving to a nine game schedule. They are sticking with the eight game rotating slate they currently have. |
Sports Illustrated
November 8, 2000
B.J. Schecter |
Fearless Predictions College football fans, you are not alone. There is something just as convoluted and mind-boggling as the BCS. And the electoral college has existed for more than two centuries. So for one week, we will forget about the game's problems and embrace college football for what it is -- a game... |
Sports Illustrated
January 4, 2001
Tim Layden |
Musings on a completed season The BCS worked. Technically. Truth is, Oklahoma bailed out the computers and commissioners who devised the three-year-old Bowl Championship Series. Miami should have been in the Orange Bowl, not Florida State. And even then, Washington would have complained... |
Sports Central
September 17, 2014
Jean Neuberger |
Outside Looking In If Michigan State, Ohio State, or even Wisconsin were to run the rest of their table and head into the bowl season with just one loss on their resume, they'd still need a lot of help to get into the playoff. |
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
December 10, 2008
Matt Thomas |
Not-So-Extreme Makeover: BCS Edition Suggestions for revamping bowl selection process. |
Sports Central
November 14, 2007
Ryan Day |
SEC: Overrated or Underappreciated? Don't be surprised if the Southeastern Conference takes home another national championship. |
Sports Illustrated
September 13, 2001
Ivan Maisel |
Conferences come to their senses They meant well. Officials in the several conferences that originally decided not to postpone their games Saturday believed that they were carrying out the wishes of President George W. Bush. But the college officials couldn't overcome the decision of the NFL not to play... |
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. |
