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Fox Sports: Analysts put the BS in BCS
Brian Lowry, FOXSports.com TV critic
There are some people (and God help anybody married to one of them) who love arguing simply for its own sake. Unfortunately, those combative souls appear to be in charge of — and enabling — the Bowl Championship Series.
Every year around this time, hand-wringing begins about the latest wrinkles in BCS Madness, which requires not only understanding advanced math but also inordinate patience for TV analysts and sports-talk hosts, whose blather puts the BS in the BCS. No other major sport leaves selecting its champion to so impenetrable a formula of computer programs and poll voters' whims.
In sportswriter/commentator circles, having two upstarts from smaller conferences invade the BCS — Texas Christian University and Boise State, the latter of the headache-inducing blue field — will trigger renewed calls for a shakeup. No way, BCS officials say, insisting the system is fine, reiterating they won't do anything that risks undermining the "bowl experience," allowing college athletes to spend several days visiting an American city before playing a football game that prominently features sponsors wearing ugly if colorful jackets. ...
Brian Lowry, FOXSports.com TV critic
There are some people (and God help anybody married to one of them) who love arguing simply for its own sake. Unfortunately, those combative souls appear to be in charge of — and enabling — the Bowl Championship Series.
Every year around this time, hand-wringing begins about the latest wrinkles in BCS Madness, which requires not only understanding advanced math but also inordinate patience for TV analysts and sports-talk hosts, whose blather puts the BS in the BCS. No other major sport leaves selecting its champion to so impenetrable a formula of computer programs and poll voters' whims.
In sportswriter/commentator circles, having two upstarts from smaller conferences invade the BCS — Texas Christian University and Boise State, the latter of the headache-inducing blue field — will trigger renewed calls for a shakeup. No way, BCS officials say, insisting the system is fine, reiterating they won't do anything that risks undermining the "bowl experience," allowing college athletes to spend several days visiting an American city before playing a football game that prominently features sponsors wearing ugly if colorful jackets. ...
