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  • 2012 College Football Rankings – Final Edition

    2012 College Football Rankings – Final Edition

    SEC rules for yet another year, with Alabama winning their third national title in four years, beating Notre Dame easily in the BCS championship game.

  • 2012 College Football Week 1 – No Alarms, No Surprises

    Number one ranked team in the nation? USC had no problem at home against Hawai’i. National champions? Alabama rolled at home against Michigan. Hopeful champions? More SEC dominance as LSU didn’t really exert themselves too much against North Texas. In short – The teams that should have won came out smiling.

  • New College Football Playoffs – Who Makes the Most Money

    Don’t think that the powerful conferences chiefs did what they did, changing the postseason scenario in College Football from what it was into a four team playoff just for the love of the sport. As with everything, even in amateurish sports, like College sports, it’s about the amount of money that there is to be made.

  • Good – College Football Gets a Four Team Playoff; Bad – BCS System still Not Perfect

    Finally, we’re going to have a playoff in College Football. A four team playoff probably doesn’t satisfy everyone, but it’s a start and the first significant signs of changes in the all mighty BCS, that will now create a little less controversies regarding who should play for the national championship.

  • The Rose Bowl 2.0 – Big 12 & SEC

    Remember all the talks about a new College Football playoff? Well, while that’s still the plan – going ahead with a four team playoff with yet to be determined venues and format, the two best conferences in the BCS era decided to make a power move of their own, announcing a deal that will put the Big 12 champions against the SEC champion on New Year’s Day, starting 2014.

  • From Annual BCS Controversy to a (Hopefully) Fair College Football Playoff System

    Where does the BCS go from here? A Semi Final format is clearly on the way, but the format is still up in the air. The power struggles between bowl games and conferences is going to determine where this thing goes, but the most important thing is that by 2014, we’ll no longer have the current system in which the national champions are decided.

  • 2011 College Football Rankings – Final Edition

    Surprised by the BCS Championship game turning in one of its worst ratings ever? I guess the public doesn’t like rematches, even between two powerhouses like Alabama and LSU. A playoff seems closer than ever, or anything that is a change of the current system, that seems to alienate more and more fans from Bowl season.

  • 2011 College Football Week 14 – Let’s Hope the BCS Gets it Right

    Championship Week around College Football gave us another convincing LSU win (over Georgia) to win the SEC and Oklahoma State beating Oklahoma in the Bedlam series, meaning these two should play in the BCS national title game. Funny thing is, the BCS system might give us another Alabama – LSU match, which would be a shame.

  • 2011 College Football Week 13 – We Need Playoffs, Not BCS Rankings

    There’s nothing new in 2011. College Football needs a playoff, as the whole BCS rankings and systems leave us with too many one-loss teams who deserve a shot at LSU, and Alabama, who already lost to them and won’t play for the SEC title, look like the most likely candidate.

  • The BCS – Getting it Wrong Since 1998

    With Five teams finishing the season undefeated but only Alabama and Texas playing for the national title, here are more BCS blunders since 1998, ever since the wonderful system has entered our lives.