Besides playing “big boy football” -- which apparently is entirely plausible -- the one thing Boise State needs to do now to maintain any relevance in the BCS rankings is beat the living daylights out ...

College football is beautiful. The snap echo of snare drum off metal bleachers is beautiful. The simplicity of Penn State blue and white is beautiful. Eighty-five thousand Georgia fans screaming “SIC ...

Even Oregon Coach Mike Bellotti, who likened the Bowl Championship Series to a cancer for its selection of No. 4 Nebraska to play No. 1 Miami in the Rose Bowl, will vote the Cornhuskers national ...

What if the College Football Playoff returned to an objective system to determine the 12-team field, eliminating any narrative of bias from the selection committee? The computer-simulated BCS model — ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Brad Edwards of ESPN.com says there's room for No. 4 Iowa to advance in the BCS rankings. If, obviously, ...

Computers prefer Oklahoma over Auburn - and Southern California. The Sooners held on to second place in the Bowl Championship Series standings Monday, staying ahead of third-place Auburn because of a ...

For now, the BCS computers might as well be powered down. As long as Texas and Southern California remain unbeaten, it doesn’t take any algorithms to figure out that they should, and will, meet in the ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Size doesn't matter. At least not when it comes to margin of victory and its effect on the Bowl Championship Series computers. Thanks to the latest tweak of the BCS formula, a ...

To err is human. To err divinely takes a computer. Tarot cards, Ouija boards and Punxsutawney Phil could have done a better job than the Bowl Championship Series whizzes in picking teams for the ...