Has it really come to this? Number of bowl-eligible teams ...
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Ladies and gentlemen, do we have an offer for you. How would you and 21 of your closest friends like to play in a bowl game this holiday season?
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It's over. For now. At least that's the hope of the people who have tried to make the Bowl Championship Series run the right way the past few years. Six BCS title games have been played, and three times they matched up the wrong teams. Last season was the ultimate fiasco when Southern Cal, ranked No. 1 in both the ...
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Seven games, 14 ranked teams, one beautiful day of football. Since The Associated Press media poll started ranking the top 25 teams in 1989, there has never been a day when more ranked teams squared off.
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The 28-bowl postseason, which began on Dec. 14 and will end on Jan. 4, brings in an enormous amount of publicity and revenue.
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Editor&#39;s note: Even before the Associated Press told Bowl Championship Series officials not to include the AP poll in its calculations any longer, the arguments over how to determine a national college football champion have raged.
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That&#39;s the summary of the latest BCS standings released on Monday. Cal made the most significant jump, up four spots to No. 4. If the season ended today, the Bears would be automatically qualified for an at-large BCS bowl berth, most likely the Rose.
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Long before the college football season started, followers of Boston College and West Virginia were eyeing Nov. 13 on their schedules. With Miami and Virginia Tech gone to the Atlantic Coast Conference, it seemed likely that the battle for the Big East title, and a trip to a BCS bowl, would be contested between the Mountaineers and Eagles, 1-2, respectively, ...
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For most of the existence of the National Football League, there have always been a few dominant teams. Teams that for extended periods are consistently legitimate contenders for the Lombardi Trophy.
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Teams from minor conferences are increasingly closing the gap on college football's elite.
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AUBURN - Ah, easy street. No game this week. Light practices. And now Auburn is being touted as the No. 3 team in the Bowl Championship Series standings.
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The new Bowl Championship Series formula is creating the same old confusion.
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THE BCS system has been tweaked and patched and overhauled and then tweaked some more. As was written in this same space this time last year, the year before that and the year before that
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When: Tonight, 8. Where: New Orleans. TV: ESPN2. Mark Blaudschun's analysis: A pair of 7-5 teams meet in the first of three bowl games in New Orleans this season. Florida Atlantic didn't start its football program until 2001 under coach Howard Schnellenberger, who also inherited a mediocre Miami program in 1979 and turned it into a powerhouse. Owls sophomore QB ...
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OK, so the battle for the Bowl Championship Series national championship between No. 1 Southern Cal and No. 2 Oklahoma was a competitive flop. The Trojans' 55-19 victory over the Sooners in Tuesday night's Orange Bowl settled the issue of who's No. 1, which is what the BCS is all about. Isn't it?
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For those who want the Bowl Championship Series tweaked, the process may have already started. Reports indicate that the Associated Press may not wish to be part of the Bowl Championship Series formula next year.
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Not like the pointless rankings calculation changes that have taken place the last couple years. The system thatâs been used to select the four major bowl match-ups since 1998 has been criticized in the past.
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But that is the margin the University of Texas trails California by in the BCS standings. The deficit in the numbers released Monday is what would put Cal in a BCS bowl if the bowl bids were awarded today.