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BCS Championship Ratings Down -- Changes May Be Coming
Over 24 million viewers tuned in to watch Alabama bludgeon LSU in the BCS championship game, a number that works for ESPN. Meanwhile Conference Commissioners are thinking about making some changes to the BCS System. The final rating for the Championship game was 14.0, which means that 14% percent...
Sugar, Orange & Cotton Bowls Primer
For those of you still able to watch the game of football, tonight features a really fun matchup in the Sugar Bowl between Michigan and Virginia Tech. Tomorrow, we'll see the Orange Bowl between West Virginia and Clemson. Then on Thursday we get the Cotton Bowl between Arkansas and Kansas State....
BCS Selection Show 2011 Open Thread
The time has finally come. We already know who will be playing in the Rose Bowl but who's going to be playing in the National Championship? Will Oklahoma State's win over the Oklahoma Sooners be enough to sway voters? Follow all the action here and chat about which matchups appear to be the most...
Study: Ohio State Bucks Bowl Ticket Trend
Bowl payouts seem relatively straightforward to those who unknowingly glance only once. The truth is, they're convoluted and aren't terribly logical. As part of a larger, ongoing study of value added by each institution to its conference, an examination of Ohio State's institutional bowl expense...
Predicting The 2011 Boston College Eagles Football Season, Part IV (Bowls And Championship Game)
We've now recapped the Eagles September, October and November. Now it's time for our 2011 ACC Football final standings predictions, ACC Championship Game and Bowl picks. Here are our picks, getting them in right under the wire. 2011 Projected ACC Standings and Championship Game Prediction Jeff:...
2011 College Football Conference Championship Predictions
We are close enough to college football season to smell it, so it is high time I got around to offering a few preseason predictions. I will begin by forecasting this year’s conference champions, but be forewarned; I did a lousy job of this last season, so there is little reason for you to believe I...
No. 1 vs. No. 2: College Football’s Magic History
On January 10, 2011 Auburn will face Oregon for the national championship, pitting No. 1 versus No. 2 for the 45th time in the history of college football. With the advent of the Bowl Championship Series, pitting the top two teams (according to the AP Poll) against each other has become almost an...
Death to the BCS: A Book Review (Part 2)
If you missed part one, click here. Here is the review of the second part of Death to the BCS. Chapter Seven: Myth of the Dead Bowls The authors state their case rather simply, "If the question is playoff or bowls, the answer is both." With their playoff system, the current bowls would still...
The Mountain West/WAC and the BCS.
This line of thought is getting pretty damn ridiculous. It comes up every few months. Some blowhard spouts out off abut how the Mountain West is more deserving of a BCS bid than the Big East and/or the ACC. Usually that person has a novel approach to the issue, they don't just regurgitate...
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