How are the college football rankings determined?
BCS stands for Bowl Championship Series. It turns out to be one of the most complex statistical systems that we can encounter in daily life. Unlike other National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) sports, college football does not have an end-of-season tournament or playoff series. Instead, any Division I-A team with a winning record can play in a post-season competition called a bowl game. These games bring publicity and money to the colleges and universities that participate in them. But with winners of 25 different bowls all claiming to be the number one, it’s been hard to call any one team the “National Champion.” In 1998, the Bowl Championship Series debuted and promised to solve this problem. The BCS divides the glut of post-season games into two groups: • The BCS bowl games – These four games consist of the Nokia Sugar Bowl, the AT&T Rose Bowl, the FedEx Orange Bowl, and the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl. Each year, one of these contests is designated as t
