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The Bowl Championship Series (BCS) is the current system used to determine the two teams that play in college football’s national championship game each year. ... The four bowls are the Rose, Fiesta, Sugar, and Orange Bowls (“About the BCS”). The BCS has been around since 1998. During this time, the BCS has succeeded in producing an outright national champion every year. The BCS releases standings based on human polls, computer polls, strength of schedule, losses, and quality wins. ... The BCS also has many problems when determining what teams will play in the other BCS bowl games aside from the championship game. Therefore, the BCS must be dropped, and college football needs to adopt a playoff system.
The current BCS system has many downfalls. The main influences on the BCS standings are the human polls. The two polls used by the BCS are the Associated Press Poll and the ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll. ... Seven computer polls are used by the BCS. ...
The formulas used by these computer polls are also constantly being changed at the request of the BCS. ... For the 2002 season, the BCS ordered that the computer polls drop margin of victory from their criteria. Now the only things remaining in the computer polls are already considered in the BCS formula. ...
The teams that are selected for BCS bowls other than the national championship are determined entirely separate from the BCS rankings. The BCS is based on the six major conferences in college football as well as the independent school Notre Dame. The six major conferences in college football are the Big Ten, Big 12, Southeastern, Big East, Pacific-10, and Atlantic Coast Conferences (“About the BCS”). ... While the champions from the six major conferences are guaranteed spots in a BCS bowl game, the other conference champions are guaranteed nothing. The annals of the BCS show that in 1998, Tulane, a member of Conference USA, finished the season 12-0. They only managed to get to number ten in the BCS. ... The Thundering Herd finished in only twelfth place in the BCS. ...
The BCS system discriminates against smaller schools and conferences by giving them less publicity and more recruiting disadvantages (Roylance). ... Schools in non-BCS conferences will receive far less exposure on the national scene. ... BCS bowl payouts are ten times as large as the normal payout for bowls that include teams from the smaller conferences. The lack of funding reduces the school’s chances of ever building up their program to be accepted into a BCS conference.
Why does the BCS shun non-BCS conference schools and other deserving teams of BCS bowls? ... When BCS bowls are choosing their at large selections, they rarely choose teams based on their performance. This makes it hard to prognosticate the BCS bowl matchups. ... If Notre Dame meets the BCS criteria for an at large selection, nine wins and a top twelve ranking in the BCS, they will almost always be assured a BCS bowl over a more deserving team, based on their economic impact.
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