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Football
By Bill A Parks
A national championship is decided in most other NCAA sports by a post season playoff. This is even the case for lower football divisions. However, college football's post-season playoff series consists of only two teams chosen by the BCS. Often, undefeated teams are left out from the championship game thus causing an argument that is almost encountered yearly. Formats for other sorts of post-season playoffs have been proposed but never recognized. Barack Obama's appearance on Monday Night Football showed his opposing stand on the sport's computer ranking system in deciding bowl games. According to Obama, he is not in favor of the BCS, and he believes that a playoff should be created for the top eight teams. Then President-elect Obama re-emphasized his stand on the eight-team playoff in answer to Steve Kroft's question in an interview on sixty minutes.
The selection and seeding of the BCS has become very controversial externally. The Conference USA Championship was claimed by the Tulane University Green Wave during the 1998 season finishing with eleven wins and zero losses. They too became the representatives of the Conference USA in the Liberty Bowl after being systematically denied by the BCS any consideration for the post-season Bowl Games. They won the Liberty Bowl. As an advocate for the athletes' academic standards, University of Connecticut Former Football Player and Tulane President Scott Cowen organized a campaign to make changes in the BCS in the provision of the teams' participation in non-BCS Conferences. His team in 1998 would have been more than qualified in the rule reformations that took effect in 2005. Cowen then redirected his attempts towards supporting an exchange for a playoff system that was currently used by the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision and Division II in the place of the BCS.
In 2005 the BCS added a fifth game to its structure, allowing ten BCS participants instead of eight. This has allowed teams such as Boise State, Hawaii, and Utah to play in BCS games, instead of the Liberty Bowl as Tulane did in 1998. Boise State and Utah both win to finish the season undefeated. The next step in climbing the BCS hurdle for these small teams is one day the national championship game.
A national championship is decided in most other NCAA sports by a post season playoff. This is even the case for lower football divisions. However, college football's post-season playoff series consists of only two teams chosen by the BCS. Often, undefeated teams are left out from the championship game thus causing an argument that is almost encountered yearly. Formats for other sorts of post-season playoffs have been proposed but never recognized. Barack Obama's appearance on Monday Night Football showed his opposing stand on the sport's computer ranking system in deciding bowl games. According to Obama, he is not in favor of the BCS, and he believes that a playoff should be created for the top eight teams. Then President-elect Obama re-emphasized his stand on the eight-team playoff in answer to Steve Kroft's question in an interview on sixty minutes.
The selection and seeding of the BCS has become very controversial externally. The Conference USA Championship was claimed by the Tulane University Green Wave during the 1998 season finishing with eleven wins and zero losses. They too became the representatives of the Conference USA in the Liberty Bowl after being systematically denied by the BCS any consideration for the post-season Bowl Games. They won the Liberty Bowl. As an advocate for the athletes' academic standards, University of Connecticut Former Football Player and Tulane President Scott Cowen organized a campaign to make changes in the BCS in the provision of the teams' participation in non-BCS Conferences. His team in 1998 would have been more than qualified in the rule reformations that took effect in 2005. Cowen then redirected his attempts towards supporting an exchange for a playoff system that was currently used by the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision and Division II in the place of the BCS.
In 2005 the BCS added a fifth game to its structure, allowing ten BCS participants instead of eight. This has allowed teams such as Boise State, Hawaii, and Utah to play in BCS games, instead of the Liberty Bowl as Tulane did in 1998. Boise State and Utah both win to finish the season undefeated. The next step in climbing the BCS hurdle for these small teams is one day the national championship game.
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