Why the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) games are designed?
On the cusp of bowl season, Trumwill explains why college football’s BCS system is better, warts and all, than any hypothetical playoff. In 2007, the New York Giants had a decent regular season, but not a particularly good one. At 10-6, they barely finished in the top quartile of teams and failed to even achieve a winning record within their four-team division. But this was not a mediocre team. After all, they have the Super Bowl rings to prove it. But one would be hard pressed to say they were the best team in the league that year. Or even the second best. Instead, they were just the team that happened to slide into the playoffs and won the last four games of the season (three of which by less than a touchdown). The next year, the Arizona Cardinals came within a touchdown of being the champs despite a 9-7 regular season. If you ask me, that is no way to select a champion. We’ve been conditioned to believe that post-season tournaments are the only way to crown a champion. Granted, when
The Bowl Championship Series (BCS) is a five-game arrangement for postseason college football that is designed to match the two top-rated teams in a national championship game and to create exciting and competitive matchups among eight other highly regarded teams in four other games. It has been undeniably successful in achieving those goals. Additionally, it has provided more access to the major bowls, more television exposure, and more postseason revenue than ever before. The five bowl games are the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl, the FedEx Orange Bowl, the Rose Bowl Game presented by Citi, the Allstate Sugar Bowl and the BCS National Championship Game that is played at one of the bowl sites. The BCS is not an entity. Instead, is an event managed by the 11 NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision conferences — all of them “BCS Conferences” — and the University of Notre Dame through a series of contracts among bowls and television networks. The conferences are Atlantic Coast, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, C
The Bowl Championship Series (BCS) is a selection system designed to give the top two ranked teams in the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) an opportunity to compete in a “national championship game”. Sources: http://en.wikipedia.
