Even Without AP Poll, BCS Won't Go Away
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Where the Bowl Championship Series goes from here remains to be seen &#151; but it's definitely not going away. "We're not heading toward a playoff," Big East commissioner Mike Tranghese said.
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For the first time in four years, the Longhorns parlayed a 10-win regular season into a berth in the Bowl Championship Series. Completing a steady climb in the BCS standings - from 11th in mid-October to
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The latest hit to the Bowl Championship Series came Tuesday, when The Associated Press told BCS officials they no longer could use the AP Top 25 in their standings.
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For more than a month, Ohio State has held the No. 1 spot in college football's all important and often controversial poll system.
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Since its birth six years ago, the Bowl Championship Series and controversy have become synonymous. Judging by the BCS standings that were released Monday for the first time this season, it won&#39;t be any different in 2004.
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Thud! The final fallout from a disastrous opening weekend for Michigan came Tuesday, when the Wolverines dropped all the way out of The Associated Press Top 25, an unprecedented fall from No. 5 to unranked. Since the AP poll expanded to 25 teams in 1989, no team has taken a bigger tumble in one week.
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Auburn faces a big test this week in its quest for a spot in the national title game. Auburn is third in the BCS standings and will probably need help to reach the title game.
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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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The Bowl Championship Series wouldn&#39;t win the popular vote, the coaches&#39; vote, the media vote, the players&#39; vote or almost any other vote that you could think of.
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If theyâd lost a game, they would understand. If they hadnât won their conference championship game, they wouldnât argue. If theyâd even ever really struggled to win, they could see being left out on the championship picture.
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No apologies, no justifications, no excuses necessary. Oklahoma isn&#39;t slinking into the BCS championship game through the back door this year.
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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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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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Oklahomaâs hold on second place in the Bowl Championship Series standings is getting more precarious by the week. Auburn more than halved its deficit to the Sooners for the all-important second spot in the latest BCS rankings released Monday.
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For the first time, a team with two losses ended up No. 1. LSU climbed to the top of The Associated Press college football poll for the third time this season, winning its second title after beating Ohio State 38-24 in the BCS national championship game Monday night.
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New York, NY (Sports Network) - The Associated Press announced Tuesday that it will remove its poll from being used by the Bowl Championship Series.
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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.