BCS
Has the BCS helped or hurt college football?
The answer to this question is “yes.” Those of us who remember the old days of randomly assigned bowl games that were determined by your conference and not your record remember how bad that was. Remember in 1984 when BYU won the title? Washington wouldn’t even play them, opting for Oklahoma instead. BYU barely got [...]
BCS and Attendance
The Mountain West Conference, Conference USA and the Western Athletic Conference have spent the last few years attempting to position themselves as being the next conference to become a BCS conference. The MWC has been talked about in many circles, as the conference closest to becoming a BCS conference. This talk is the result of [...]
How to take down the BCS
It’s easy to see why the BCS is one of the worst things that’s ever happened to college football. The vast majority of fans agree that it needs to be changed or completely replaced. There exist differing views regarding what system should replace the BCS, and of those, Sloppy Joe’s is one of the best. However, [...]
Another idiotic response from Bill Hancock
Bill Hancock is charged with the task of defending something that is utterly indefensible. So it should be no surprise that his responses to valid criticism of this defunct system are becoming more and more desperate. As William Wilberforce says in the movie, “Amazing Grace,” if he “continues to scrape the bottom of the barrel, [...]
Will the MWC become a BCS conference?
There is a lot of speculation right now about expansion and realignment, but no one seems to be noticing that fact that we are now halfway through a four year BCS cycle. What is that exactly? No one really knows that the 6 automatic qualifying conferences aren’t always a lock to be that way. Every [...]
