rivals.yahoo.com - 12/5/2008
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Like apple pie and motherhood, everyone can get behind scrapping the BCS. Even if you're anti-playoff -- or maybe especially if you're anti-playoff -- opposing the status quo in favor of change is just serving up spoonfuls of the softest, moistest pablum: The system is bloated, unfair, too ...
pigskinheaven.com - 12/3/2008
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pigskinheaven.com —
I keep hearing this ridiculous argument from university
presidents, ESPN pundits, and just about everything else out
there in favor of keeping the BCS the way it is just for the sake of being what it is that claims that the simple logic behind the BCS is for the sake of the student, we can't add ...
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If the BCS was Really About Money...
bankrollsports.com - 12/4/2008
usatoday.com - 12/3/2008
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usatoday.com —
And Fox Sports Chairman David Hill says Fox
hopes to let theatergoers use 3-D glasses to watch
February's NASCAR Daytona 500. Hill says sports in 3-D is "fabulous," and high-def TV "has just been a steppingstone" to get to 3-D. But even though TV sets ...
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BCS on Fox going 3-D in theaters
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Cheap Shots: Defending Stephon
Signal to Noise —
... Test how well you know where big time college football coaches went to school themselves. [Simon on Sports]
Evaluating how Oral Roberts’ hoops team prays to make a splash this year. [Storming the Floor]
A solid preview of this weekend’s De La Hoya-Pacquiao fight, provided by Large of No Mas. [Sporting Blog]
Yes, another dipshit Congresscritter has decided that the DOJ has nothing better to do than investigate the BCS. [Dr. Saturday]
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Bevo's Daily Roundup 12.05.08
Burnt Orange Nation —
... think any big changes are in order for the BCS. Well, no. Everything is peachy up your way. Actually Mr. Boren, the BCS has been very, very good to Oklahoma.
The BCS and the Big 12. In eight of 12 Big 12 championship games, the higher ranked team had a chance to advance to the national title game. This year isn't different.
Dr. Saturday has a Head Huntin' chart, in case this whole coaching carousel is making you dizzy. And he wants to make sure you vote your route to BCS destruction.
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Hope, Change, Playoff
Alligator Army —
... statements this season advocating the creation of a college football playoff. We are now at the point where we have some real momentum towards a college playoff. ...
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