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...work. It didn’t work when they called it the Bowl Coalition. It didn’t work when they called it the Bowl Alliance. And it still doesn’t work, even after they incorporated the Rose Bowl and slapped the flashy BCS name...
Speaking of questioning the legitimacy of the national title, this week Harvard claimed the top spot in five of the eight computer polls used in the Gridiron Power Index—the I-AA equivalent of the BCS ranking system. The Crimson climbed to 38th and 41st in all of Division I in the Sagarin and Massey polls, respectively. No Ivy team has ever finished in the top spot of any single computer poll, much less five. And no Ivy team has ever won the I-AA national title...
...going to veer off on a completely irrelevant and lengthy aside on Pittsburgh and its position in the BCS. Anyone who said that it’s a travesty or a shame or so on that the Panthers are going to a BCS bowl game by winning the Big East has absolutely no clue what he or she is talking about. The only reason the BCS was created was to make sure that the conference champions, if they finished number one or number two in the country, would be free to play each other, rather than being locked into traditional...
...BCS was not meant to take the top eight teams in the country and place them in the top four bowls. Nor was that the way it was before the BCS. There have always been conference champion tie-ins to the top bowls, and there always will be.Until we see a I-A playoff. And that won’t ever happen. Whew...
Unlike Division I-A football, which decides its national champion via the BCS, Division I-AA allows all the title contenders to determine their fate on the field in a 16-team tournament, making the difference between No. 5 and No. 10 irrelevant...