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The college football playoff debate was a very hot topic of discussion concerning college football in the United States prior to 2012. This debate—among fans, journalists, conference representatives, government officials, university administrators, coaches and players—concerned whether or not the postseason format of NCAA Division I-A (later the Football Bowl Subdivision, or FBS) should be ...
The view from the 50-yard line for the 2010 BCS National Championship at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California (Alabama vs. Texas). The BCS National Championship Game, or BCS National Championship, was a postseason college football bowl game, used to determine a national champion of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), first played in the 1998 college football season as one of ...
A survey conducted in 2009 at the Quinnipiac University found that 63% of individuals interested in college football preferred a playoff system to the BCS, while only 26 percent supported the BCS as status quo. [6] Arguments from critics typically centered on the validity of BCS national championship pairings and its designated National Champions.
The 12-team playoff era in college football is here after a decade of a four-team postseason. ... After tabling a proposed eight-team playoff format in 2009, BCS commissioners announced in 2012 ...
In the SEC, the debate wouldn’t be whether Alabama, Ole Miss or Texas A&M can still get into the playoff despite a third loss, it would be which one gets a guaranteed fourth spot that none of ...
By DAVID ROBERTS College Contributor Network Goodbye, BCS. Hello, College Football Playoff. That was the best name the think tank was able to generate? Regardless of the uninspiring title, for the ...
At season's end, three BCS Automatic Qualifying (AQ) conference teams finished the regular season with one loss, with only two spots available in the BCS National Championship Game. Three BCS Non-Automatic Qualifying (Non-AQ) conference teams also finished with one loss, TCU, Boise State and Miami (OH), stirring the debate of the BCS being ...
The conference championship seeding rule — and the 12-team format in general — was intended for a world that featured five somewhat equitable power conferences and not the current landscape of ...