The Bowl Championship Series inevitably creates more questions than answers. Often there are no good answers, just dissatisfying explanations. As best we can, let's try to sort this out. Q: Should ...
With college football’s version of Selection Sunday rapidly approaching — and the debate roaring over who belongs in the playoff field versus who should be left out — has anyone stopped to wonder what ...
Since the inception of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) in 1998, only MIT graduates and savants (aka "Rain Men") have possessed the mental acuity necessary to comprehend the BCS' many nuances. What ...
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 ...
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 ...
Maybe the problem with the bowl championship series is that the computers aren’t paying attention. “Those seven BCS computers apparently didn’t get to see Kansas State’s demolition of Oklahoma,” wrote ...