bcs

The Bowl Championship Series is a system to determine which two American football college teams will play for the national championship. Its main two components are national opinion polls and computer rankings.

The reason the BCS gets a lot of traction in the blogosphere because it's rooted in controversy. While some people assert a playoff isn't needed, the majority of people agree the BCS doesn't work and since every other major team sport in the United States uses a playoff to determine champions without much controversy, college football should too.

But whether fans question the validity of the BCS or not, odds are they are curious to see which team has the inside track to the BCS Championship Game, played every January. After Saturday's games are played, the BCS releases updated rankings every Sunday night to determine which two football teams will clash helmets for the love of a supercomputer and its associated opinion polls.

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• BCS Championship 2009 College Football Rankings week 12

  
  UwidoNews - Submitted news — Authority: 465
  Seven teams remain unbeaten after last week’s College Football game and the leader is Florida . Fortunately for them, both LCU and USC are in top 10 despite of a 7-2 record.
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• USC football: How low can the Trojans go?

  
  USC — Authority: 559
  USC fell from No. 11 to No. 22 in The Associated Press Top 25 . The Trojans hadn’t been lower than 13th since October 2002. USC is 18th in the BCS standings , one spot behind Stanford and one ahead of Oregon State — not that that matters anymore. This week’s award for the ranking that makes the least ...
  6 hours ago

• BCS rankings week 12: BCS rankings 2009

  
  iOnlinePhilippines — Authority: 140
  Bowl Championship Series 2009 Florida, November 16, 2009 – BCS rankings week 12 or BCS rankings 2009 of the top eight teams. Change in this week’s top 25 BCS ranked teams happend at number 9, where Pittsburgh make a big leap from 12 to 9. USC, former number 9 dropped all the way to number 18 after a loss to ...
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• BCS Rankings Week 11: TCU & Cincinnati Likely on The Outside Looking In

  
  Bleacher Report - Front Page — Authority: 769
  The national title picture, as is typical within the BCS system, looks like it’s heading for yet another controversial finish. A mere two weeks remain in college football’s regular season, and the six teams that sit atop the BCS poll all remain undefeated with 10-0 records. Only one of two of these teams is sure ...
  6 hours ago

• BCS and January Bowl Projections: Round Two

  
  sportsjabber.net — Authority: 142
  As we saw yesterday, a lot can change in a week, with many BCS bowl contenders falling, opening the door for others to possibly squeak into the BCS.BCS National Championship: Florida vs. Texas
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• Penn State rises, others fall

  
  Zombie Nation - Penn State football blog — Authority: 523
  Penn State crept to No. 14 in this weeks BCS Standings. The Nittany Lions were voted No. 12 in both the USA Today Coaches Poll and the Harris Interactive Poll , but fell in the BCS computer average, to No. 21. Penn State rose by a similar margin in the Associated Press Poll, up to No. 13 .
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• A Look at The Bcs Rankings

  
  Sportales — Authority: 424
  1- Florida- Really not impressed here. I mean they have prov-en to be less than impressive against average teams. Sure they have won twenty in a row but with no Harvin the Tide will handle them in the SEC Championship. 2- BAMA- Look great at times and OMG seriously? At times as well. They do have an awesome ...
  8 hours ago

• BCS Rankings Week 12 | BCS Rankings November 15 | BCS Rankings Week 13

  
  Publishing Medium — Authority: 140
  The week 12 college football rankings are now published, and they had better mirrors the week 12 BCS rankings. The BCS rankings will appear later now, and while they are exclusively involved in minor doses by the United States of America nowadays Coaches opinion poll, there should not be very much of a difference in ...
  8 hours ago

• BCS Rankings Week 12 Show Top Eight Unchanged

  
  HULIQ - Citizen News Review — Authority: 697
  The top eight teams stayed put in the BCS Rankings Week 12. The first change in this weeks top 25 BCS ranked teams occurs at number 9, where Pittsburgh jumped from 12 to 9. Former number 9 USC dropped all the way to 18 after being destroyed by Stanford.
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• bcs rankings november 15

  
  Newsalistic — Authority: 165
  
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• No Surprises in New BCS Rankings

  
  Kreuzer's Korner — Authority: 442
  If you were expecting big changes in the BCS rankings this weekend, well, you’re not going to be happy. The top 8 teams remained the same for a second straight week with only minor changes to the top ten. With so many undefeated teams, I wonder if this is the year people finally realize that we NEED a playoff in ...
  8 hours ago

• 2009 BCS rankings - week 5 (12)

  
  The W message board thread feed — Authority: 151
  BCS Prev Harris Int. USA Today Computer Rankings BCS Standings through 11/14 Avg Week Rank Pts % Rank Pts % Avg 1 2 3 4 5 6 % 1. Florida (10-0) .9833 1 1 2793 .9800 1 1460 .9898 1 25 24 24 24 25 25 .980 2. Alabama (10-0) .9521 2 3 2694 .9453 3 1388 .9410 2 24 ...
  9 hours ago

• NCAA College Football Rankings – Week 12

  
  Sportainment Blog — Authority: 116
  Here is week 12’s NCAA College Football Rankings . The BCS rankings week 12 will be posted later today. Just to give you an idea of the BCS rankings, check out the AP Top 25 : RK – TEAM – RECORD – PTS 1 – Florida (36) – 10-0 – 1463 2 – Alabama (14) – 10-0 – 1429 3 – Texas (10) ...
  10 hours ago

• AP Poll Week 11

  
  iSportacus — Authority: 508
  This week’s A.P. college football poll is out and Florida is still #1. I suppose they deserve to stay in the top spot because they’ve won all their games and they have remained tops each week this season with the exception of Week 7. With that said, their non-conference schedule included a non-FBS team (Charleston ...
  13 hours ago

• I Have A Dream TCU Beats Florida. I Only Hope Its in The BCS Title Game

  
  Bleacher Report - Front Page — Authority: 769
  Last year the Bowl Championship Series tried their best to put down the perceived underdog. Utah was given the task of playing Alabama, a team one win away from the BCS title game, practically on the road in New Orleans. So what did Utah do? They embarrassed the Crimson Tide. They beat them from start to finish. ...
  15 hours ago

• Why The Non-BCS Teams Dont Deserve a Chance Under The Current BCS

  
  Bleacher Report - Front Page — Authority: 769
  Lately, there has been a lot of clamor from the non-BCS (or non-AQ) teams and their fans for consideration as title-contenders. Under the current BCS system, there are only two teams each year that gain the privilege of playing for a BCS national title.  The most commonly cited argument in support of the ...
  16 hours ago

• Are All the Stars Aligning for Alabama As a Team of Destiny in 2009?

  
  Bleacher Report - Front Page — Authority: 769
  In what is unveiling to be a season of firsts and lasts, this Tide team appears to be peaking at the right time to finish the season. Yesterday marked the first time in Nick Sabans career that he has posted back to back 10-0 starts, and the first time Alabama has done it since 1974 and 1974. It also marks the 29th ...
  19 hours ago

• Cardinal rain on Trojans homecoming parade

  
  sportsjabber.net — Authority: 142
  For the second time in three years, Stanford has owned the Los Angeles Coliseum. Unlike those underdogs of 2007 that clawed back to shock and surprise the Trojans and the college football world, this year’s group jumped out early, struck often, and walked away with a convincing 55-21 victory.The combination of ...
  19 hours ago

• The fall of Troy.

  
  Left Coast Sports Babe — Authority: 425
  Stanford 55 – UCS 21. Today might have been the most embarassing day for USC football players since they got their SAT scores. - Of course, many people know that Trojan defenses can be overrated. They’re called parents. - Not to say that this year’s season has been a tragedy for Trojan fans. But this ...
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• Tiger Wins in Melbourne

  
  Sports 2000 — Authority: 126
  Tiger Woods won the Australian Masters Sunday in his first tournament on the continent in a decade. Woods fired a final-round 68 and outpaced Greg Chalmers by two shots. Texas Christian staked a claim on a BCS berth as the #4 Horned Frogs (10-0, 6-0) won their Mountain West showdown against #16 Utah (8-2, 5-1), ...
  1 day ago

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