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In American college football, the 2007 BCS computer rankings are a part of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) formula that determines who plays in the BCS National Championship Game as well as several other bowl games. Each computer system was developed using different methods which attempts to rank the teams' performance.
BCS Championship game at the Rose Bowl, Pasadena, California, January 7, 2010, Alabama vs. Texas. The Bowl Championship Series (BCS) was a college football post-season selection system that created four or five bowl game match-ups involving eight or ten of the top ranked teams in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of American college football, including an opportunity for the ...
The ranking system was widely criticized after ranking Notre Dame ahead of Alabama following the 2012 BCS National Championship Game, in which Alabama defeated Notre Dame 42–14. [37] [42] [43] The Colley Matrix is most well known for ranking Central Florida ahead of Alabama in 2017 despite Alabama's victory in the 2017 College Football Playoff.
BCSKnowHow.com, which projects how the old BCS computer system that used to decide the two teams that would face off in the national championship, has the same four teams on top of its new rankings.
Before the College Football Playoff was instituted, the BCS Computer decided which two teams would play in the national championship. The College Football Playoff rankings were updated on Tuesday ...
College football’s BCS rankings are no longer in existence, but the computer formula is still around. Notre Dame is actually ahead of Ohio State in the simulated BCS rankings. The Wolverines ...
The Bowl Championship Series used a mathematical system that combined polls (Coaches and AP/Harris) and multiple computer rankings (including some individual selectors listed above) to determine a season ending matchup between its top two ranked teams in the BCS Championship Game. The champion of that game was contractually awarded the Coaches ...
LSU earned the second spot based on a stronger computer ranking than USC and a No. 2 human poll ranking, and went on to claim the BCS championship with a 21–14 win over Oklahoma in the Sugar Bowl. USC instead went to the Rose Bowl , where they easily defeated Big Ten champion Michigan (No. 4), and the AP proclaimed the Trojans as national ...