What are some of the craziest BCS follies in college football?”
BCS Follies If you’re a college football fan you’ve heard of the Bowl Championship Series, or BCS. This is the ranking system that determines which two teams meet in a bowl game for the national championship. It’s the system that arranged an Ohio State vs. Florida matchup this year. If you’re NOT a college football fan, you may have heard of the BCS because you overhead a fan complaining about what a mess the BCS is and how it screws up the matchup each year. Why do people complain about that? It’s simple: the BCS is behaving exactly the way it was supposed to behave. Back in the way old days (1992, that kind of stuff), the college football national champion was decided by a poll. Actually there were two polls, one of the coaches and one of sportswriters, and sometimes they didn’t agree, so you would have two national champions (this happened in 1991 with the Washington Huskies sharing the title with the Miami Hurricanes). The system was obviously subjective, but most years the two pol
