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...consensus decision, the representatives attending the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) meetings two weeks ago in New Orleans have decided not to consider a playoff to decide the Division I-A college football champion...
First, every other division in college football—I-AA, II and III—uses a playoff system to decide its champion. Of course, those divisions don’t have to worry about unearthing a lucrative four-bowl system that serves the sole purpose of benefiting the six wealthiest conferences at the expense of the game’s integrity...
...recall the 2001 fiasco, where a Conference USA game between TCU and Southern Miss. gave Nebraska enough of an edge in its strength of schedule to pass Colorado by .05 points for the right to be Miami’s whipping boy in the Rose Bowl, despite the fact that the Buffaloes thumped the Huskers 62-36 to end Nebraska’s regular season...
...interested in getting their attention. While the question was funny and generated priceless interactions between the candidates, it came at a great cost. As the candidates left Faneuil Hall that Tuesday, they were probably wondering whether young Americans will be able to lift their heads out of the toilet bowl long enough to make it to the polls...
...even if the package had delivered its underwhelming payload, it’s hard to imagine its sparkle enlivening the Yale Bowl for long. When it comes down to it, Yale is a lot like the Soviet Union. And it’s not just New Haven’s corroding concrete and dirty smokestacks or the school’s blatant anti-Harvard propaganda and horrifically poor labor relations that make it that way. It’s that Yale can’t hope to compete with a real superpower, especially when its little bundle of perestroika...