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By trav424, Section College
With every game, and every "championship", the system in place in college football (BCS) becomes clearer that it needs to be fixed. The easy solution is a playoff. But even that can't reach a consensus agreement. How would we decide is in the playoff? Would it be 64 teams like in college basketball? Wouldn't some teams still get the shaft? And would ALL the conferences agree (Big 10)? Not everyone can be satisfied, but he is THE plan. The plan to end all the questions and controversy surrounding the game today. (9 comments, 807 words in story) Full Story By Flemish American, Section College
There it was. The Motor City Bowl was on and I was glued to my TV hoping that Central Michigan of the Mid-American Conference would manage just one more score. After they did and it was all tied up, I continued to watch as Purdue of the Big Ten drove for one last time and won on a late field goal. The following day it was Texas -vs- Arizona State and then I couldn't wait until the next day when Maryland was due to play Oregon State and two other games were to take place. I have no loyalty to any of these teams. I don't even follow very many of their conferences. Yet here I was following all the results and enjoying all the trappings of the yearly bowl season. (956 words in story) Full Story By Flemish American, Section College
Living overseas, I'm only exposed to the main sports headlines and whatever they decide to talk about on the games I'm lucky enough to see. Today, watching Virginia Tech beat Boston College for the ACC title and a birth in the Orange Bowl, I've been struck by the lack of talk about the one thing that was on most of our minds back in September when the season started, the drama of the Virginia Tech campus shooting. (1 comment, 559 words in story) Full Story By alexferguson60, Section College
And now, the regular season over. Kansas and LSU's gooses (or should I say turkeys?) are cooked, and we've only got one week to go before a month of non-stop controversy. (4 comments, 1059 words in story) Full Story By uxley11, Section College
With all the talk of the Plus-1 format being set up to determine college football's National Champion, I thought I would try a different idea. This idea has almost no chance of working, since the Pac-10 and Big Ten conference commissioners have already stated that they will pull out of the Bowl Championship Series if the Plus-1 format or whatever number team playoff was implemented. My idea calls for all of the BCS conference champions and two wild card teams from non-BCS conferences to play it out for the title. (1984 words in story) Full Story By thale, Section College
Every year, without fail, the pundits rip the BCS. I have always felt this was unjustified, since the BCS does exactly what it was designed to do. Until a playoff is created (and that looks unlikely) the BCS is the best way to choose a national champion. (4 comments, 777 words in story) Full Story By djcfla1, Section College
By David J. Cohen It's the last week of the regular season in big time college football. This means the BCS controversy is approaching full tilt. This year the controversy is over who plays Ohio State for the national championship. Michigan is waiting in the wings if USC collapses against arch-rival UCLA. Then there's Florida, the team on top of arguably the toughest conference in the country and the team every analyst outside of CBS wants out of the picture. Then there's the issue over whether Notre Dame will get a bid despite being outside of the top eight in the BCS standings because they are Notre Dame, will generate an audience, and would be paid less by the BCS then a representative from a BCS conference. The Irish would receive $4.5 million. When the winner of a conference makes a BCS game this year, the conference gets between $14 million and $17 million to split among the teams. The other rotten apple this year, which is being overlooked, is the fact that an ACC team will get a bid despite the mediocrity of the conference this year. The highest ranked team is 14th ranked Virginia Tech, who isn't in the conference championship game. (4 comments, 2156 words in story) Full Story By johnnyrico, Section College
Never has an Ohio State/Michigan game been so big and meant so little. Arguably the greatest rivalry in sports, the 42-39 epic between the two programs last Saturday may have been the most exciting installment of the series ever. The new BCS standings could render the classic battle meaningless, however. With Michigan ranked number two behind the Buckeyes, the once improbable notion of a rematch is now more than a possibility, it is a probability. This would be a terrible injustice to the rest of the teams playing for a shot at the Buckeyes in Glendale, and the most convincing proof to date that college football needs a playoff. (4 comments, 811 words in story) Full Story By Vtknowitall, Section College
Ohio State secured a berth in the National Championship Game on Saturday, defeating Michigan, and becoming the stand alone, unquestioned leader of the pack. It was not controversial, nor disputed. By winning the game, Ohio State knocked out the second challenger from the number two position this year. (2 comments, 590 words in story) Full Story By Trevor, Section College
by Trevor Freeman
Someday girl I don't know when we're gonna get to that place..Where we really want to go and we'll walk in the sun...But till then tramps like us...baby we were born to run...
If luck truly is when practice meets opportunity then this weekend the Scarlet Knights of Rutgers seized their moment. In the land of Springsteen, Bon Jovi, Tony Soprano......in the land that inspired one of the truly great websites of all-time (www.njguido.com) college football's best Cinderella story is being written. For a win over Louisville and losses by Auburn, Texas and California has elevated The State University of New Jersey close to a place that Mr. George Mason currently resides. David is once again tapping on the door of Goliath. (6 comments, 855 words in story) Full Story
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