The first and second ranked teams at the end of the season are then able to participate in college football's national championship game. ... Southern California, with a record of 10-2, is ranked number one in the poll released by the New York Times. Meanwhile, the second and third ranked teams in this poll, Miami and Ohio State, are undefeated and unanimously ranked one and two in every major computer and human poll. ... Finishing undefeated in college football means little sometimes. ... Miami, on the other hand, lost their only game to fourth ranked Washington. ...

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How can they claim this when in 2001 a Brigham Young University team went undefeated during the regular season and found itself not ranked in the top 15 teams according to the BCS. ... USC turned out to be the #1 ranked team by the Associated Press (AP) and by the coaches poll. ... Ideally, the college football season would end much like the college basketball season in a playoff format. The college basketball season ends in "March Madness," a sixty four team bracket which is played in a single elimination format. ... However, college basketball does not have this as a problem. ...

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The Bowl Championship Series (B.C.S.) was created in 1998 by a group of the larger colleges (College Football Fight Reaches Congress, net). ... The season champions of those leagues are guaranteed at least four of the six spots in the B.C.S. bowl games (College Football Fight Reaches Congress, net) , the other two spots are at large bids (College Football Fight Reaches Congress, net), that means any school can get in those two spots regardless of their conference. ... In the current ranking system margin of victory is not a factor to find the top twenty five teams in college football (BCS Bett...

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