BCS ponders its next step
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Big East Commissioner Mike Tranghese (tran-GEE&#39;-see) says the Bowl Championship Series is not heading toward a playoff. But there will be changes in the BCS formula.
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This week&#39;s schedule may not be loaded with marquee matchups, but there are plenty of games Saturday with huge BCS implications.
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Impossible. Inconceivable. A Southeastern Conference team is in position to go 12-0 and get locked out of the national championship game.
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College football&#39;s controversial Bowl Championship Series is sure to be overhauled again after The Associated Press demanded yesterday that its news media poll be pulled from the BCS ranking.
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It has become the time of year when everything in college football is relative. Your team has to win its games in order to move up in the BCS poll, or win its conference, or even just to qualify for a bowl bid.
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Don't get me wrong, I have nothing whatsoever against the Florida Gators. But I so hoped Florida would be voted No. 3. Not that I have any fondness for Michigan. Like a lot of folks, I had no desire to see an Ohio State-Michigan rematch in the BCS title game.
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Adding a poll of 50-60 college football experts is the latest plan Bowl Championship Series officials discussed with bowl representatives yesterday in meetings in Dallas, as the BCS tries to adjust the way it picks teams for the national championship game and the four major bowls.
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USC and Oklahoma finish atop the final BCS standings and will meet in the Orange Bowl in a title game that might not produce a unanimous national champion.
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The AP's disassociation from the Bowl Championship Series appears to be the first concrete step away from the flawed system and toward a college football playoff.
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Despite reports to the contrary, Texas isn&#39;t out of the Bowl Championship Series just yet. In the BCS rankings released Monday, the Longhorns sit in fifth - one position away from an automatic bid.
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ANAHEIM, Calif. -- No matter how hard anyone tries to predict what will happen at baseball&#39;s annual winter meetings (hereafter referred to as the &quot;Big Crap Shoot,&quot; or BCS), no one can know, with any degree of certainty, what really will go down.
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JaMarcus Russell and LSU cleared another contender from the national title picture and just might have added one more big game to their already brutal road schedule &#151; this time in the BCS. The Tigers will gladly accept a trip like that, and after taking out No. 5 Arkansas, they feel they have a pretty good resume.
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That&#39;s the question confronting Auburn&#39;s football team after the Tigers eased past Tennessee 38-28 in last night&#39;s Southeastern Conference Championship game.
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Redemption and validation. Top-ranked Ohio State enters the BCS national championship game against LSU searching for redemption, hoping to bury the memories of an embarrassing loss in last year's title game.
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Question 1: How many weeks did it take for the BCS to once again prove it was a fraud? One. Let&#39;s pretend for a minute that this was December 6th and not October 19th.
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BCS officials are going to have some serious discussions in the upcoming months about going to a plus-one format, which could create a four-team major college football playoff.
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ATLANTA -- OK, BCS, what now? A complicated system involving three unbeaten teams vying for the two spots in the Bowl Championship Series national title game in the Orange Bowl Jan. 4 grew only slightly clearer last night, leaving today's announcements of the bowl matchups a giant guessing game.