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totalprosports.com - 12/10/2008
The BCS System Is Just Not Working
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Total Pro Sports - We have completed yet another year in what was a fantastic season in College Football. However, like in many years past we have to deal with the controversy of the BCS . The system deciding what teams that will play in the National Championship Game . This year it was ...
The BCS System Is Just Not Working
Texas takes its BCS fight to a higher power
rivals.yahoo.com - 12/11/2008
Texas takes its BCS fight to a higher power
— rivals.yahoo.com — In addition to the " car czar " nonsense, there was another one of these anti-BCS things in Congress today, this time in the form of an actual bill , an outraged bill that would force college football into a playoff system. Three guesses ... (more) Texas takes its BCS fight to a higher power

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Pat Forde: Florida, Oklahoma traverse long BCS road
sports.espn.go.com - 12/8/2008
Pat Forde: Florida, Oklahoma traverse long BCS road
— sports.espn.go.com — We should have seen this coming. The fact that this messy, mesmerizing 2008 football season is scheduled to conclude in Florida should have sent off warning bells clear back before Labor Day. Every four years, the Sunshine State and the ballot box ... (more) Pat Forde: Florida, Oklahoma traverse long BCS road

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If Baseball Used the BCS System
bugsandcranks.com - 12/8/2008
If Baseball Used the BCS System
— bugsandcranks.com — People hate the BCS, the prevailing ranking system and championship game deciding mechanism of college football, for the undeniable fact that it makes too much sense. We don’t want sense and we certainly don’t like math. We’re fanatics. You can’t spell math or sense with the word fanatic and tha (more) If Baseball Used the BCS System

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