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...October 23rd, college football teams and fans alike will be eager to see the first 2000 edition of the Bowl Championship Series rankings--the system that has determined the participants in college football's national championship game for the past two years with minimal controversy. The triumph of the BCS in producing a Tennessee-Florida St. national championship in 1998 and a Florida St.-Virginia Tech national championship in 1999 have made the BCS a superficial success...
...sparkling record of the BCS thus far has merely covered up the system's glaring holes. It's only a matter of time before the system will deny a deserving team of the chance to play for the national title...
College football statisticians claim that the BCS can't fail. They say that they have tested the BCS with data from the past 20 college football seasons and that the BCS produces the desired national championship every time, so therefore it must work. They fail to acknowledge, however, the common sense fact that a system's success with a few specific examples from the past does not guarantee its success with realistic outcomes in the future...
...BCS index is calculated by adding together four factors: composite poll ranking, composite computer ranking, strength of schedule ranking divided by 25, and total number of losses. The two teams with the lowest index play for college football's national championship in either the Rose Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Fiesta Bowl, or Orange Bowl, depending on the year...
Meanwhile, No. 4 Kansas State, which lost one game, in double overtime, no less, didn't even get a BCS spot and is playing in the Alamo Bowl. For a team that went into the last week of the season ranked No. 1, this is worse than kissing your sister or whatever else those kinky Yalies have come up with...