The Bowl Championship Series (BCS) is the current system used to determine the two teams that play in college football's national championship game each year. It consists of four bowls that rotate yearly to host the national championship game. The four bowls are the Rose, Fiesta, Sugar, and Orange Bowls ("About the BCS-). The BCS has been around since 1998. During this time, the BCS has succeeded in producing an outright national champion every year. The BCS releases standings based on human polls, computer polls, strength of schedule, losses, and quality wins. The first and second ranked teams at the end of the season are then able to participate in college football's national championship game. These rankings have been consistently unfair to teams deserving to play in the title game, and excruciating whining about the system has taken place yearly. The BCS also has many problems when determining what teams will play in the other BCS bowl games aside from the championship game. Therefore, the BCS must be dropped, and college football needs to adopt a playoff system.
The current BCS system has many downfalls. The main influences on the BCS standings are the human polls. The two polls used by the BCS are the Associated Press Poll and the ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll. The polls are voted on weekly by selected sportswriters (AP) and coaches (Coaches). These polls are unfair because they are released too early in the week to be able to fairly evaluate 117 teams (Roylance). Because of discrepancies in the polls, the system has not been able to rank teams accurately beyond the number one team.
Besides the polls, the other main components are computer rankings. Seven computer polls are used by the BCS. The seven computer rankings used are the rankings of Anderson & Hester, Richard Billingsley, Colley Matrix, Kenneth Massey, New York Times, Jeff Sagarin's USA Today and Peter Wolfe.
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In the current ranking system margin of victory is not a factor to find the top twenty five teams in college football (BCS Better off Without Another Face-Lift, net). Some people believe that Margin of victory should be put in effect to make it easier to find the top college football teams (BCS Better off Without Another Face-Lift, net). ... Since USC won that game and ended up number one in the poll they had to share the national championship with Louisiana State University even though LSU won the B.C.S. championship game against Oklahoma University (Carroll Not Complaining about BCS Ranking,...
According to bcs.org, "The current BCS system has done what it is meant to do, place the two best teams in the country against each other year in and year out." ... Instead, teams such as Notre Dame were given BCS bowl bids, despite have two losses in the regular season. ... The BCS appeared to have done its job of identifying the two best teams in the country, but rarely will it be so easy. This season could turn out to be the most controversial and disastrous of all BCS seasons since it was instituted in 1997. ... These last three games would be what are now the BCS bowls. ...
The BCS was created to take on more of an objective view and get rid of the bowl alliances and tie-ins that were common with the previous bowl structures. ... It's good that they've done away the poll system, but it's time for the BCS to go. ... It's time for the BCS to say goodnight and go to bed. ... I propose that we not necessarily do away with the BCS completely, but rather improve upon it. ... In the current system, there are four BCS bowls which include the Rose, Orange, Fiesta, and Sugar Bowls. ...
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Another economic killer for the Big East is the BCS, or Bowl Championship Series. Established in 1998 as a way to determine the national champion among the six major conferences, and football independent Notre Dame, the BCS has paid out more than four hundred and fifty million dollars to sixty-three schools since its inception. The contract between the BCS and the Big East expires in 2006, and with the loss of football powers Miami and Virginia Tech, the new Big East may be left out of the new BCS contract. This coule cost a loss of millions of dollars to the Big East, while the ACC stands ...
Three teams had arguable claims to be in the championship game: The BCS#2 Florida State Seminoles had an 11-1 record, the BCS#3 Miami (FL) Hurricanes boasted a 10-1 record and beat #2 FSU, and the BCS#4 Washington Huskies with a 10-1 record and beat #4 Miami. ...
