No Easy Answers for BCS
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Architects of the BCS huddled behind closed doors Friday to start hashing out next season's formula for determining which teams play for the national title in the wake of the AP's demand that its poll no longer be a factor.
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For a league that prides itself on academic excellence, the ACC seems a bit geographically challenged. How else to explain Monday&#39;s twin releases of next season&#39;s ACC logo and the names for the league&#39;s football divisions?
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Bowl Championship Series rankings tend to leave heads spinning, dizzy from trying to decipher the decimal points that determine postseason destinies.
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Georgia is getting ready to face Alabama in a crucial Southeastern Conference game. The Crimson Tide is coached by Nick Saban. Saban used to work for Bill Belichick. Can you figure out where this is going?
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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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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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What a weekend of college football! It was puzzling, exciting, dramatic, thrilling, crushing, and suspenseful. But there was one thing it never was.
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Syracuse wasn't able to follow Boston College to the Atlantic Coast Conference or stop the Eagles from leaving the Big East. The one thing the Orange could do was deprive BC of a spot in the Bowl Championship Series and a farewell Big East title.
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Don't admit, and the Terrapins must acquit. Denial is the difference between a one gameÃÂ suspension and securing the absolute benefit of the doubt.
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Southern California is No. 1 in the polls and the BCS standings. The computers prefer Oklahoma. Auburn's victories over Georgia and Tennessee might be the season's two most impressive performances. The Trojans, Sooners and Tigers are all 11-0, but the Bowl Championship Series can only accommodate two teams in its national title game.
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It is all a matter of perspective. For Boston College, a trip to Disney World and Friday's Champs Sports Bowl against Michigan State had to be sold a different way. The Eagles, who have won seven straight bowl games - but none of them New Year's Day quality - had their sights set on the ACC title and an Orange ...
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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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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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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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ATLANTA -- It came down to simple math. Three teams trying to squeeze into two slots. No computer printout, no voter bias, no pleas by coaches could solve that problem for the Bowl Championship Series.
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It didn't take long. First poll, first controversy. Or at least mini-controversy. If you had taken the wisdom of the two human polls, the first Bowl Championship Series rankings that were released yesterday should have been a no-brainer.
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After a quick inspection of the ACC Atlantic Division Standings, the only thing clear with the ACC bowl picture is that not much is clear at all.