College Football: Bowl Championship Series Betting Preview
The long wait is over! Yes you read it right, after a roller coaster ride in the 2007-08 NCAA College Football Season we can now determine who are going to play in the Bowl Championship Series National Championship Game.
According to the Bowl Championship Series Rankings heading into the final week of the College Football Season, Missouri Tigers and West Virginia Mountaineers locked their Bowl Championship Series Standings in number one and number two spots respectively.
All they got to do is win to win their next game and the Missouri Tigers and the West Virginia Mountaineers will slug it out in the penultimate Bowl Championship Series National Championship Game.
For those who are wondering what is Bowl Championship Series in the NCAA College Football. Here is a quick explanation on how this thing works. BCS is defined as Bowl Championship Series. Bowl Championship Series is a five-game arrangement for post-season college football that is designed to match the two top-rated teams in a national championship game and to create exciting and competitive match-ups between eight other highly regarded teams in four other games. The bowl games participating are the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl, FedEx Orange Bowl, Rose Bowl, Allstate Sugar Bowl and the Bowl Championship Series National Championship Game.
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In simple terms, the top two teams in the final Bowl Championship Series Standings will play in the national championship game, while the other eight teams will play in the bowl games (Sugar Bowl, Rose Bowl, Fiesta Bowl, Orange Bowl).
But the big question is how do they rank the teams and are there any controversies? Bowl Championship Series uses a series of borda counts to arrive at its overall rankings. This is an example of using a voting system to generate a complete ordered list of winners from both human and computer-constructed votes. Obtaining a fair ranking system is a difficult mathematical problem and numerous algorithms have been proposed for ranking college football teams in particular.
Sad to say but there are many controversies surrounding this kind of ranking system. One is the fact that the final ranking of Division I NCAA football teams is decided by arbitrary and subjective standards. Opponents of the current system believe that the “champion” of the largest and most popular collegiate sport should be decided on the field, in a head-to-head match-up.
Yes this is true, why would you rank the top two teams and let them play in the Bowl Championship Series National Championship Game. Other teams also have the opportunity to play. Regular season is totally different from the postseason. Post season is considered to be the biggest game for players; it is where you separate the boys from the men.
Another criticism is that a team can fail to win its conference championship, but still play in the Bowl Championship Series championship game. This happened in the 2001 and 2003 seasons. In 2001 Nebraska played Miami (Florida), after losing to Colorado and knocked out of the Big 12 Conference Championship game. In 2003, Oklahoma played LSU despite losing to Kansas State 35-7 in the Big 12 Conference title game.
Changes should be made ASAP! The Bowl Championship Series Ranking System is unfair for other teams who finished in the top ten. Commissioners and organizer should think of a better way or rule on how they would match-up teams. I think one way of having a fair rule for the teams is that they follow the Bracketing System in the NCAA College Basketball or perhaps the Playoff Bracketing in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Here every one gets a fair shot. In the NCAA College Football, the top five teams get the advantage and the bottom half will try their best to win and make it to the top.
I know there many pros and cons it they would alter the rules. But we’ll never know if this would help the league or not and avoid the debate from the audience as well as the fans.
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