BCS computer rankings validate Notre Dame’s CFP position while exposing major differences in the Top 15, including Oklahoma ...
The SEC was dominant under the old BCS format, putting together a seven-game winning streak in the BCS Championship Game from 2007 through 2013 and winning nine of the 16 BCS Championship Games. The ...
If there is one common criticism of the College Football Playoff model it is that it is left up to humans to determine who should play for the national championship. Bias and allegiances can interfere ...
Of the many, many targets in the sights of Yahoo! colleagues Jeff Passan and Dan Wetzel in their definitive anti-BCS manifesto, Death to the BCS, none come in for a more thorough evisceration than the ...
They've got this national college football thing perfected now, supposedly, but it's a good thing because without the BCS we'd only have the sportswriters to blame. For decades, sportswriters have ...
Eyes don't lie, but computers do. Wasn't that part of the narrative that led to college football's power brokers ditching the Bowl Championship Series for the Playoff? It's always interesting to go ...
For now, the BCS computers might as well be powered down. As long as Texas and Southern California remain unbeaten, it doesn’t take any algorithms to figure out that they should, and will, meet in the ...
After two decades at the center of college football's most notorious ranking system, the creators of the arcane computer polls that accounted for one-third of the BCS formula look back on the clashes ...
The BCS system was supposed to prevent things like this from happening. Among the Sports Information Directors Poll (aka the Coaches Poll), a made-for-the-BCS Poll (the Harris) and six hand-picked and ...
As was expected in this season of favorites falling by the wayside, LSU upset Tennessee in the SEC title game last weekend to put the Vols’ national title hopes out of commission and send the BCS ...