BCS Maintains Its Imperfect World
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Shakedown Saturday came and went. Nothing changed. So the Bowl Championship Series has its annual nightmare. When the final BCS standings are released today, the USC Trojans (12-0) and Oklahoma Sooners (12-0) are expected to be matched in the Jan.
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The fiesta hadn&#39;t even begun, and already people were asking Urban Meyer, the life of the party, if it was over. That, as we&#39;ve come to learn, is the price of success in college football these days.
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This year's BCS title game is lacking in star power on the field but LSU Coach Les Miles has been unable to avoid headlines all year.
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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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One of the enduring beauties of college football season is the way that it unveils itself to the world. While the N.F.L. slogs through bad preseason games to fill its ownersâ coffers, college football opens with a snap, like an artist pulling a sheet off of a canvas. And sometimes, thereâs an unexpected work of [...].
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Bye-bye, Bowl Championship Series. I&#39;d say it was nice knowing you, but it wasn&#39;t. Given what we know about the BCS and its cast of stubborn characters, nothing is certain.
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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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Ohio State has become the latest top-ranked team in this most fickle of college football seasons, but it is being greeted with skepticism.
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First things first. Major college football is no closer to a playoff than it was before this season erupted in controversy, before the Associated Press grew so uneasy with the Bowl
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&quot;There are three teams deserving of playing in the national championship game. Someone&#39;s going to be left out of it, and it&#39;s not right.
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But at times, this desperate push to move into the top two in the BCS standings and earn a place in the national championship game starts to sound more like politics than football.
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It was just another Bowl Championship Series selection Sunday, as unhappy teams from coast-to-coast once again sparked debate about the BCS, even if there were mostly agreement that USC and Oklahoma
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College footballâs 3 1/2-month regular season has come down to this: Three critical games. And a couple of critical votes. Unbeaten USC, Oklahoma and Auburn remain 1-2-3 in Mondayâs Bowl Championship Series
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Call the Bowl Championship Series flawed. Call it a bogus way of crowning a national champion. Call it nasty names that can't be mentioned here.
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The Texas Longhorns might want to forget about the Bowl Championship Series. It looks like the BCS has all but forgotten them.
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It has happened every year since the BCS was formed in 1998. One way or another, whether by blowing its chance or by another team not providing help, Texas finds itself at the Cotton or Holiday bowls.
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The new Bowl Championship Series formula is creating the same old confusion.