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College Football – Final Rankings of the 2013 Season
The BCS era ends with the dethroning of the SEC as Florida State win the national championship game against Auburn, earning them the top spot in the year-end polls and rankings, with Auburn, Rose Bowl champions Michigan State, South Carolina and Missouri completing the top 5.
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Will We Miss the BCS?
Jumping to another sport before we try and see how College Football will change by moving from the BCS system to a 4-team playoff chose by a committee, one of the most idiotic lines ever uttered by Michel Platini, the chief of UEFA and the second strongest person in the world of soccer, had to do with why instant replay still isn’t a part of the decision making system by referees.
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2014 College Basketball Season – Week 6 Rankings
Despite struggling against UNLV at home, Arizona dominated the polls and landed its first top spot in a decade thanks to their 9-0 record and wins over Duke and San Diego State earlier on. The Wildcats lead a foursome with an undefeated record – Syracuse, Ohio State and Wisconsin.
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2013 College Football Season – Final BCS Standings
The latest edition of the BCS standings isn’t just the last one for the 2013 College Football season, but the final top 25 we’ll ever get to see, as the sport moves on to a playoff system instead of polls + computer rankings to determine the two teams to make the national championship game. By the way, no surprise there, as Florida State and Auburn finish at 1-2, heading to play for the Crystal ball.
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College Football – Final Top 25 Rankings of the Regular Season
The final AP Poll of the regular season doesn’t really surprise anyone – Florida State and Auburn are the only team with first place votes, and all likely will be the programs that head into the national championship game. The rest of the top 25 simply signifies the chances of other schools to make it to the other BCS bowls, unless some conference affiliation has already taken care of that.
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College Football Preseason Rankings Mean Nothing – 2013 Edition
Every season there’s another example of how preseason polls are quite terrible at predicting who are actually the best teams in college football. Florida State, undefeated and number one heading into the conference championship game, were outside the top 10. Florida, who finish the season at 4-8 were the number 10 team in the nation when the polls came out.
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2013 BCS Standings – Week 14
In the most anticipated BCS standings release of the season (before the one that will come out next week), it seems Ohio State have the inside track to the second berth in the BCS national championship game, leaving Auburn and Missouri on the outside and hoping for either the Buckeyes or Florida State to slip up in order to keep the SEC in the final of College Football.
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2013 College Football Season – Week 12 BCS Standings
There’s no change in the higher reaches of the BCS Standings after week 13. Alabama and Florida State at the moment heading to the national championship game, Ohio State waiting for someone to fall. That simple? Not really, because the rise of Auburn to number 4 and of Missouri to number 5 really makes it a bit more complicated if either the Crimson Tide or the Seminoles mess up in the upcoming games.
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2013 College Football Season – Week 11 BCS Standings
As expected, the top 25 of the BCS standings took a big hit and shake, as Florida State took a big step towards being in the national championship game with Alabama, distancing themselves at number 2 from the rest of the chasing pack, as things are quite close between Ohio State, Stanford and Baylor battling for third.
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2013 College Football Season – BCS Favorites Taking Care of Business
Week 11 was about two teams separating themselves from the rest of the field: Alabama beating LSU to maintain their undefeated and number 1 status; Florida State to cement their spot as the number 2 team in the BCS standings, leaving Baylor and Ohio State behind them, waiting for one of the top two teams to drop the ball, although that seems highly unlikely.