When do the new college football rankings come out?”
College football really does need a playoff. The Bowl system is outdated and ultimately a silly way to do things. I mean look at the March Madness basketball playoff brackets. So much better for the fans…. At any rate, to answer your questions, it is necessary to clarify a few things. 1) The Rose Bowl is not a “championship game”, but merely one of the 5 “BCS” Bowls. 2) There is a “BCS” National Championship Game, but the winner isn’t necessarily the national champ because the AP can vote a different winner if they so chose 3) There are actually 32 Bowl games in total. For the 2007 season, 64 of the 119 Division I FBS teams will play in a bowl game. Now, it is time to explain the mess that is the BCS. The BCS consists of the 5 “premier” Bowl games – the National Title Game, along with the Rose, Fiesta, Orange, and Sugar Bowls. The Bowl Championship Series (BCS) is a selection system designed to force a “national championship game” between the top-ranking teams (in the BCS rankings) i
