We’ve survived the lower level bowls, and finally we get to the BCS ones this week. I’m still not a fan of spreading them all out due to TV’s greedy wishes. I loved taking that one day off to start the year and watch at least six bowl games on three ...

The Bowl Championship Series gets yet another face-lift this season with the creation of a fifth game, the implementation of the so-called "double-hosting model" and a new television network. Count the number of times the formula has been massaged, tweaked ...

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. -- The Bowl Championship Series agreed Sunday to add a fifth game, increasing access for schools not part of college football's most lucrative postseason system. The champions of the six BCS conferences -- the Big East, ACC, SEC, Big 12 ...

The toughest tests have been passed, the tallest hurdles cleared for Texas, Alabama and Florida. For the second season in a row, an SEC-Big 12 matchup in the BCS championship games seems inevitable. Maybe too inevitable? With Iowa out of the unbeaten ...

GLENDALE, ARIZ. • Fourteen months into the unwieldy job of BCS executive director, Bill Hancock remains his congenitally congenial self even as rage against the machine bubbles over. As such, as he said at University of Phoenix Stadium on Monday a few ...

Finally, there's a little sunshine in the Sunshine State, courtesy of the folks at the Bowl Championship Series. Miami, which for the past couple of seasons has been the exemplar of all that's wrong with the system, finally broke through, leaping past ...

There is one month before berths are decided in the Rose Bowl, the big jewel in the Bowl Championship Series crown. Here's a primer for Where They Stand entering the weekend. Call it the VCS (Very Cerebral Stuff), based on a contender's actual chances of ...

The holidays have passed, but there's no more important time to give thanks than right now, because we, as NFL fans, have playoffs. The alternative, the system that our semi-pro league uses, has provided some fun along the way (specifically, 70), but is ...

As we look ahead to the upcoming college football season, there is one thing that looks for certain heading into the year: There are going to be a lot of good teams in 2011. As of now, despite popular complainants, it looks as if the BCS system will stay ...