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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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This has been one heck of a season thus far. Every week, there have been games that have been dynamite. I can understand the proponents of keeping the bowl system the way it is.
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It is not as though they need any more reminders. It is not as though they are not aware of the consequences. Boston College has Rutgers and Mississippi State and, to an extent, Pittsburgh as prime examples of what can happen to a Division 1-A team on any given day against a Division 1-AA opponent.
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On Jan. 5, two high school postseason games will be played, each intended to show off a passel of future college football stars. The Army version is in its eighth year, ESPNâs is new.
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The Mid-American Conference grew up last fall, kicking around a few of its big brothers. Bowling Green defeated Purdue in September, then knocked off Northwestern in the Motor City Bowl.
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3. Packers (9-6) have clinched division title and third playoff seed. Seahawks (8-7) have clinched playoff berth. Can clinch division title with a win or a Rams loss.
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The incentive of a postseason berth inspired the New Orleans Saints and the Carolina Panthers. And yet, when the game was over, each of the teams had lost.
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You love sports, so you might have missed it. Maybe you were watching the Celtics lurch toward consecutive loss No. 18. Maybe you were dissecting and analyzing the AFC's last-second victory in the Pro Bowl. Maybe you were tuned in to one of the 17 college basketball games on television or downloading some plays for your next pickup game at ...
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Alabama-Birmingham is making its first postseason appearance, Hawaii is playing in its third straight hometown bowl game. The Blazers say that gives them an edge in Friday&#39;s Hawaii Bowl.
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There's the GMAC Bowl, the Emerald Bowl and the Champs Sports Bowl. And there's the Continental Tire Bowl and the Insight Bowl and the MPC Computers Bowl.
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TAMPA - When the first Bowl Championship Series standings are released today, expect the first step in a season-long Ute Movement.
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TORONTO -- Last week of August, the playoff race is heating up, and a Red Sox player's thoughts turn to . . . football? In some ways, these guys are no different from the typical sports fan on the cusp of an NFL season. Sure, they're focused on the business at hand, winning a spot in their own postseason tournament ...
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It is Bowl Championship Series Time -- not for the games themselves, but for the headier competition of who gets in and where.
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The Baltimore Ravens won the game, yet showed exactly why they had to depend on outside help to reach the playoffs. Baltimore needed to beat the Miami Dolphins and have three other games fall its way to earn a wild-card berth. The Ravens did their part by stumbling to a 30-23 victory Sunday, but they left the field unsure if it was their final game of the season.
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Points: The bowl season continues with this matchup of teams that exceeded preseason expectations. The Miners&#39; run revived the program and the career of coach Mike Price.
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Baton Rouge, LA (U-WIRE) -- This is it, the last slate of games before the bowl season kicks off. The big games to watch will be the Big XII and SEC Championship games, with Auburn and Oklahoma both looking to get in the Orange Bowl to face USC.
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Don't be too dazzled by the new-and-improved model of the Bowl Championship Series coming to a newspaper or TV outlet near you. It will have to go back to the dealer soon enough.