College Football Playoff

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NCAA President Mark Emmert On The BCS, NCAA Tournament And Penn State Sex Scandal

HuffingtonPost.com | Jordan Schultz | Posted 01.06.2012

Amid one of the NCAA's biggest scandals of all time and in the days before the controversial BCS National Championship on Jan. 9, The Huffington Post ...

Congress Should Investigate Conference Realignment Decisions

Brian Frederick | Posted 11.23.2011

Brian Frederick

It's up to the public to ask of these university leaders: which is more important -- television revenues for entertainment or public subsidies for education? Because the two are diametrically opposed.

Mark Cuban's College Football Proposal Is Pretty Damn Good

Brian Frederick | Posted 10.28.2011

Brian Frederick

Last year, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban became inspired to try to help bring about a college football playoff -- "The more I think about it, the more sense it makes as opposed to buying a baseball team," Cuban said in December.

Justice Department Demands NCAA Explain Football BCS System

AP | By FREDERIC J. FROMMER | Posted 07.04.2011

WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department has sent a pointed letter to the NCAA asking why there isn't a playoff system for college football, saying "serio...

Top 5 Sports Stories

Len Berman | Posted 05.25.2011

Len Berman

What home field advantage? The road teams won three of the four NFL playoff games this weekend. The only home winner... the 7-9 Seattle Seahawks. Go figure.

Why College Football Fans Really Hate the BCS

Weston Gentry | Posted 05.25.2011

Weston Gentry

Jocks hate nerds. It's that simple. Jocks are especially peeved when nerds attempt to impose their nerdiness on others as they do in the math-heavy BCS system.

Confessions of a Harris Poll Voter

Brian Frederick | Posted 05.25.2011

Brian Frederick

Harris Poll voters agree that BCS advocates are primarily TV executives and bowl administrators. They are smart business men and women who have a very definitive bottom line... make money.

Death to the BCS? Here, Here!

Brian Frederick | Posted 05.25.2011

Brian Frederick

The forthcoming book Death to the BCS is testament to the deep morass in which college football is now stuck.

The Myth of College Football's "Most Compelling Regular Season"

Brian Frederick | Posted 05.25.2011

Brian Frederick

College football kicks off on September 4th with LSU facing UNC. At the conclusion of that game, one of those two teams will all but be eliminated from winning the national championship this season.

Scream All You Want For a College Football Playoff, Money Screams Louder Than You

Ed Berliner | Posted 05.25.2011

Ed Berliner

The NCAA is handing out huge chunks of cash to teams and conferences who are not part of an oft-demanded Division 1 playoff.

BCS, Colleges, NewsCorp Spend A Fortune Lobbying College Football Playoff Proposals

Center for Responsive Politics | Dave Levinthal | Posted 05.25.2011

House Resolution 390 will not result in troop deployments to Afghanistan, an overhaul of the U.S. health care system or the bolstering of an economy i...

Sudden-Death Panels: The Fight to Stop Government-Mandated College Football Playoffs

Jon Lewin | Posted 05.25.2011

Jon Lewin

Imagine a world in which all undergraduates must join a college football team. That is what some activists warn might soon happen.

Making the BCS Slightly Less of a Mess

Dan Shanoff | Posted 05.25.2011

Dan Shanoff

As the college football regular season reaches its climax this weekend, here are four suggestions I would make to Ari Fleischer and the BCS to more effectively manage public perception.

Boise State White House Senator

AP | FREDERIC J. FROMMER | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — Sen. Orrin Hatch is urging President Barack Obama to invite Boise State to the White House along with Bowl Championship Series winn...

House College Football Playoff

AP | FREDERIC J. FROMMER | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — Dismissing complaints from some members that Congress had more pressing matters, a House subcommittee approved legislation Wednesda...

Poll: College Football Playoff Favored By Majority

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

HAMDEN, Conn. — A majority of college football fans want to scrap the current Bowl Championship Series and replace it with a playoff system that's s...

Ari Fleischer's BCS Job: Stop A College Football Playoff

The Daily Beast | Posted 05.25.2011

On Monday, just after noon, I received a telephone call from Ari Fleischer, the former press secretary to George W. Bush. In ordinary times, Fleischer...

Playoff PAC To Air College Football Playoff Ad (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

(SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO) (AP) WASHINGTON — A new political action committee plans to run ads this week pushing for a playoff system for college ...

BCS House Vote: Congress To Vote On College Football Playoff

Wall Street Journal | JOHN D. MCKINNON | Posted 05.25.2011

House lawmakers are gearing up for a vote as soon as next week on a bill aimed at forcing a national college-football playoff. Approval of the legi...

BCS or Just BS?

Alden Loury | Posted 05.25.2011

Alden Loury

Here's a way for the bowl games to keep their money (and make a little more) while the rest of us get a chance to see the very best two teams in the title game.

Please, Mr. President-Elect, No Playoff!

Andrew Brandt | Posted 05.25.2011

Andrew Brandt

With all due respect to the learned opinions of our incoming leader, his suggestion about college football would reduce the sport to a three-week event for attention-deficit sports fans in America.