Ever wonder how the BCS rankings are chosen? Numbers, difficulty of schedule... it rarely ever seems to make sense. 

Well, the guys over at Global Sports Fraternity seem to have some ideas about how this years "BCS champion" was chosen. With all the debate over what happened, and the fact that USC was a) not higher and b) stuck playing a team...

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I really can’t get over the fact that the BCS National Championship crystal football trophy is worth $30,000. I mean, isn’t winning the silly thing enough? That’s someone’s annual salary. And are there even any fun things to do with a BCS National Championship trophy? Wait don’t answer that.

Seriously though, in a time when people are getting ...

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Tonight Florida and Oklahoma will meet for the BCS title game, the much awaited national championship of college football so important to college football fans that tickets are currently being sold for $870.

I guess that’s probably how they pay for the $30,000 crystal football trophy, an aesthetic travesty which seems distastefully deca...

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 A: College football bowl games have allowed themselves to be bent over and violated by corporate sponsors for years now, selling themselves to the highest bidder while producing bastard offspring like the Fedex Orange bowl and the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl. But as I watched the PapaJohn's.com Bowl today, I couldn't help but feel especially dirty as ...

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Everyone likes an underdog...unless the underdog is beating their team. Here are some of the best college football upsets of 2008.

• Texas Tech over Texas: You know it's a great upset when the crowd storms the field three times.

• Buffalo over Ball State: First win over a ranked team, first MAC championship, first bowl bid...

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Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) has introduced a bill to Congress that, if passed into law, would eliminate the BCS and replace it with playoffs for college football.  You know the BCS really sucks when  the United States government is ready to intervene.

The bill does not specify what type of playoff would be put in place, but it "will prohibit the...

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Projected Obama-style playoff based on predicted outcomes... 

With president-elect Barack Obama jumping into the dialogue on college football, it certainly has led to a whirlwind of “what-if” scenarios at this point in this exciting season (if Michigan State is ranked in the BCS... it truly IS exciting!). We can lead off this conversation wit...

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As one of his last acts on the trail, Barack Obama has called for an end to the BCS in favor of a college football playoff. Alright, it wasn’t on the “trail” per se and was more on Monday Night Football, but it’s still great to hear. The president totally has the power to change that right?

Both candidates were asked to name one thing they woul...

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