The best -- and worst -- possible BCS matchup scenarios
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You can&#39;t spell BCS without BC And you can&#39;t spell &quot;BCS bowl buzz&quot; without a zzzzzzzzzzzzz. With a 36-17 upset of 13th-ranked West Virginia on Saturday, unheralded Boston College took a giant step toward claiming
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-- PIT: Bettis 1 run (Reed kick), 6:29. Drive: 15 plays, 67 yards, 8:31. Key plays: Maddox 10 run on 3rd-and-8 to Steelers&#39; 45; Maddox 12 pass to Ward on 3rd-and-7 to Raiders&#39; 40; Maddox 11 pass to Randle El on 3rd-and-5 to Raiders&#39; 19.
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There&#39;s a whole new perspective on one of America&#39;s most intense college football rivalries tonight. Oh, sure. Florida State is greeting hated Miami into the Atlantic Coast Conference.
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The best thing about college football and the worst thing about college football often is the same thing - the finality for a national title contender after its first loss.
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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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Speed wins. Or at least that is the perception in many quarters of college football. And Louisiana State had more speed than Ohio State, which was one of the reasons the No. 1-ranked and once-beaten Buckeyes were slight underdogs against the twice-beaten and No. 2-ranked Tigers in last night's BCS championship game at the Superdome.
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The college football season kicked off last night, and for the past two years, the marquee opening game has been Florida State-Miami. The rivalry is as intense as Texas-Oklahoma, Auburn-Alabama, and USC-Notre Dame.
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When it happens, somehow it will change. It will change by making the remainder of the season more meaningful, extending the dreams of a BCS bowl bid, which is what it's all about at the highest level of college football.
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Football is different in the Southeastern Conference. Different good, different bad. But it never has been better than it is right now, following LSU's 38-24 victory over Ohio State in Monday night's BCS national championship game, which followed last year's title by Florida over the Buckeyes. Throw in back-to-back national championships by Florida in basketball and you ...
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With the release of the first Bowl Championship Series poll on Monday, the reinvented BCS formula is finally being put to work. In July, the BCS unveiled its new formula, which relies on the rankings from three different polls.
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One has been called Da Worst, the other is Da Man. Rex Grossman of the Bears vs Peyton Manning of the Colts in the biggest Super Bowl mismatch ever. Not close to being true, of course, but it's perception that counts.
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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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If Ohio State can play this well when there&#39;s turmoil, keep the scandals coming. The Buckeyes fought through the Maurice Clarett allegations by obliterating Michigan, and then dismissed the Troy Smith fiasco by playing its best game of the year.
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In five years of playing BCS conference opponents, Troy's highlights are wins over Mississippi State and Missouri and close calls against LSU and Florida State. Coach Larry Blakeney says none of those games would compare with a victory over No. 23 Nebraska on Saturday night.
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They occur every college football season, games in which logic gets suspended and disbelief takes over. Call this the first Say What? Weekend of the 2007 season.
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So what will Boston College's football team do for an encore? After posting back-to-back home victories in double overtime against Clemson (34-33 ) and Brigham Young (30-23 ), how do the 20th-ranked Eagles expect to top that tonight at North Carolina State?
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It looks like Florida is going to get its first choice this time. Turned down by Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops and Denver Broncos coach Mike Shanahan three years ago before