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BCS Standings Week 10: Stanford Moves Up BCS RANKINGS After Big Win Over USC
Stanfords first win of the season against a ranked team helped Andrew Luck and the Cardinal move up in the BCS standings. While LSU (8-0), Alabama (8-0) and Oklahoma State (8-0) remained locked into the top three spots in the standings released ...
worldsbestblog - BCS RANKINGS: Week 11 College Football Schedule ...
Oregon's victory over Stanford gives the Ducks the chance to leap back into the BCS title conversation.Posted by Falcons Report on November 12th, 2011. Free. With at least two games remaining in the regular season, which teams ranked in ...
Will Barrack Obama abolish the BCS RANKINGS and mandate a playoff for the FBS National Championship?
I really hope he does. This is an important issue that Obama has commented on before! He is even having the BCS investigated for possible anti-trust violations. It is good to see that Obama is working on righting the wrongs of this country. Maybe next he will find a way to make it so baseball does not suck so much.
Answer: Maybe Obama could head up the Departments of Hope and Change, which can be in a new federal building shaped like a heart, where he can sit around and think of ways to inspire people with empty, meaningless rhetoric. His entire role in the government can be finding new ways of feeding our emotions.
After all, emotion is 80% of liberalism, isn't it?
o_O
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BCS RANKINGS, Week 11: Alabama Falls To No. 3, Stays Ahead Of ...
The LSU Tigers are unsurprisingly on top of the latest Bcs rankings, while Alabamas loss has dropped them to No. 3.
KEEPING SCORE; Numbers Are a Weak Spot In the B.C.S. Standings
The Bowl Championship Series will release its first standings of the year on Sunday. One-third of the formula that will eventually determine the matchup for college footballs national championship game comes from a compendium of six computerized ranking systems that deal in mathematical minutiae. The nerds did not just crash the jocks party. They - Jeff Passan and Dan Wetzel are columnists for Yahoo Sports and co-authors with Josh Peter of Death to the BCS: The Definitive Case Against the Bowl Championship Series. - By JEFF PASSAN and DAN WETZEL
Projected BCS Standings: Oregon To Be Rewarded Heartily in Fifth ...
Oregon's victory over Stanford gives the Ducks the chance to leap back into the BCS title conversation.
Bowl Championship Series - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Bowl Championship Series (BCS) is a selection system that creates five bowl match-ups involving ten of the top ranked teams in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl ...
BCS Standings - Fox Sports
Nov 6, 2011 ... Complete NCAA BCS Poll of the top 25 college football teams.
OK State jumps to No. 2 in BCS poll behind LSU
The Tigers (9-0) and Crimson Tide were No. 1 and No. 2, respectively, in last weeks Bcs rankings, and Saturdays 9-6 overtime defeat in Tuscaloosa dropped Alabama (8-1) only one spot in this weeks poll to No. 3. Oklahoma State (9-0 ...
The Times college football rankings
Theres a new No. 1 but this is really a fix-it week. We have Oregon back ahead of Oklahoma (duh), since Oregons only loss was to Louisiana State and Oklahoma lost at home to Texas Tech. Why would Virginia Tech have been ahead of Clemson when Clemson won ...
BCS Standings - Bowl Championship Series Rankings - College ...
Get the latest Bcs rankings for the top 25 teams in college football.
Can anyone explain how the BCS computer rankings are calculated?
When looking at the Bcs rankings on yahoo, the 25 teams get a computer average. For the top 4 It shows:
#1 LSU 0.940
#2 Alabama 0.940
#3 Oklahoma State 1.000
#4 Standford 0.800
I know the computer part (1/3rd) of the BCS is an average of 6 different computer systems. But I dont have a clue where those numbers come from.
Answer: I'm not a fan of the BCS and I think the whole system is convoluted, but I have figured out the computer systems calculation math. And it is complicated.
First of all, you can't use the Yahoo Sports Bcs rankings page because it doesn't show the individual computer system rankings. The ESPN link below shows them. I'm sure there are many other sites that you could use.
As you said, there are 6 computer systems that rank the top 25 teams. However, the highest and lowest rankings are tossed out and the remaining 4 are used in the calculation.
For each of the 4 rankings used, points are awarded using a reverse scale.
Rank/ Points
1 / 25
2 / 24
3 / 23
4 / 22
5 / 21
6 / 20
7 / 19
8 / 18
etc.
down to:
25 / 1
So a team gets 4 sets of points based on the 4 rankings. They are added up, then divided by 100 to convert to a percentage. The conversion is done so the computer average is on the same numerical basis as the Coaches Poll and Harris Poll and can be averaged with those to come up with the overall BCS ranking.
The Coaches and Harris polls are done using the same reverse scale for all the rankings from individual voters a team gets. For each of those, the points are totaled up and divided by the number of voters to get the percentages. You can think of the computer system 1/3 as a poll with 4 voters.
Told you it was complicated. But some examples will clarify it better.
For this week, Oklahoma State earned these 6 computer systems rankings...
1 2 1 1 1 1 Toss the highest and lowest.. leaves us with 1 1 1 1.
So when we assign the points for each ranking, we get 25 25 25 25
added up that's 100 .. divide by 100 = 1.000
So that's the Cowboys computer ranking expressed as a percentage to be used in the overall BCS calculation. That happens to be the highest percentage possible and it makes sense because they were ranked #1 by all 4 computer systems used.
Let's do Standford's...
computer rankings.. 5 4 6 8 8 5 ... toss high/low ... 5 6 8 5 ... award points ... 21 20 18 21 .. add up.. 80 .. divide by 100 = 0.800
And Alabama's...
computer rankings.. 2 3 3 3 2 2 ... toss high/low ... 3 3 2 2 ... award points ... 23 23 24 24 .. add up.. 94 .. divide by 100 = 0.940
LSU was ranked differently by the computers but ended up with the same percentage as Alabama because when you drop the high and low the same number of points are awarded.
3 1 2 2 3 3 ... 2 2 3 3 ... 24 24 23 23 ... 94 ... 0.940
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BCS computer rankings
Six computer rankings are used: • Jeff Sagarin (Jeff Sagarins Bcs rankings appear in red on the chart) • Anderson & Hester • Richard Billingsley • Colley ...
BCS controversies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Bowl Championship Series (BCS) is a selection system designed to force a "national championship game" between the top-ranking teams (in the Bcs rankings) in ...
BCS RANKINGS 2011: Stanford Will Jump Alabama with Win over ...
Bcs rankings 2011: Stanford Will Jump Alabama with Win over Oregon. Ezra Shaw/Getty Images Pac-12 powerhouses No. 4 Stanford (9-0) and No. 7 Oregon (8-1) will face off in California Saturday night to decide which BCS contender will ...
Arkansas can emerge from BCS slop
Based on the latest rankings and no rules barring a team that doesn’t win its conference -- or division, in this case -- from qualifying for the BCS National Championship Game, it’s quite possible that we’re headed for a rematch of the ...
If Iowa wins and Alabama loses would that do much with the BCS RANKINGS?
both Flordia and Texas have easy games today and Im guessing that its a given they win, but if Alabama loses would Iowa just take their spot in the Bcs rankings?
Answer: Edit: Iowa didn't win and 'bama didn't officially lose. But, info below is accurate as question was asked.
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Yes. Iowa has already passed TX and Ala into second in the computers. They would be number three, but, probably not number two in the Bcs rankings.
Most teams have been dropping about 5 slots with a defeat. Ala probably won't.
If tOSU beats PSU (helping Iowa SOS) and loses to Iowa, a loss today for 'bama and a win-out for Iowa COULD put them in the NC.game because TX plays no one in the top 25 right now, even in the B12 champ game.
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BCS RANKINGS?
when do the Bcs rankings come out. I wanna see where the idiotic people that know nothing about college football put teams now
Answer: not until after week 8
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BCS RANKINGS?
How do they determine the Bcs rankings???
Answer: Harris Interactive poll 1/3
USA ESPN 1/3
The final Third is comprised of 6 computer rankings average.....
The highest and lowest rankings are discarded.......
Sagarin
Anderson and Hester
Richard Billingsley
Colley Matrix
Kenneth Massey
Dr. Peter Wolfe
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Final BCS RANKINGS 2011: Top 25 Standings Released Following ...
The final Bcs rankings for 2011 put Oregon at No. 2, but the final AP rankings dont agree. Just released by the AP, the new Top 25 standings have TCU ...
BCS Standings Week 11: LSU, Oklahoma State Take Lead In New ...
LSU and Oklahoma State took control of the race to the BCS championship game – but don't count out Alabama yet. The day after the Tigers and Cowboys stayed unbeaten with their most difficult victories of the season, they ...
Gators Hold Off Spurrier and South Carolina
Jarvis Moss blocked a 48-yard field goal as time expired to give No. 6 Florida a 17-16 victory over South Carolina on Saturday, spoiling coach Steve Spurriers return to Gainesville and keeping the Gators national championship hopes intact. Spurrier stood near the 31-yard line with his legs crossed as Ryan Succop lined up for the game-winner.
Hogs not fretting fall in BCS RANKINGS
FAYETTEVILLE — Don’t ask Bobby Petrino to figure out the Bowl Championship Series standings. Arkansas’ coach is brilliant in breaking down X’s and O’s, dissecting defenses and attacking an opponent’s weaknesses. But when it comes to ...
Is the BCS computer rankings projections different from the Preseason rankings in college football?
For the BCS bowl rankings projection, I am just curious on the ranking difference from the BCS compared with the Preseason rankings. Would they correspond exactly by points? Or would they differ initially? My main point behind this is to wonder since after #3 Oregon lost to #4 LSU, would Oregon still have a chance to go to the BCS National Championship if they lost the home opener but win the rest of the games?
Answer: The Bcs rankings are released starting in mid October. The calculation for the rankings has 3 parts, 2 opinion polls and a computer ranking system. The polls used are the USA Today/Coaches Poll and the Harris Poll. The computer 1/3 of the BCS is an average of 6 separate computer rankings.
The USA Today/Coaches Poll releases a preseason ranking and then every week after the season starts. The first Harris Poll is released when the same day the first overall Bcs rankings are published.
Most teams have played 6 or 7 games by the time the Bcs rankings start so they will always differ a lot from the preseason rankings. The teams at the top of the rankings may be the same, or close to the same, depending on how they've done at that point in the season.
It's much better to be undefeated but any of the BCS conference winners with 1 loss will have a shot at getting into the BCS Championship Game. However, it's a long shot for Oregon.
Oregon is ranked 14th in this weeks Coaches Poll. That puts them behind 3 teams from the Big 12, 2 teams from the Big 10, 2 teams from the ACC, 4 teams from the SEC, and Stanford from the PAC 12.. plus Boise State.
Obviously, the only impact Oregon can have in the rankings of those teams would be beating Stanford.
It's likely that 2 or more of those teams will finish the season undefeated. If that happens, it's highly doubtful that Oregon or any team with 1 loss will be ranked #1 or #2.
And, if all the BCS conference winners have 1 loss, it's unlikely the winner of the PAC 12 will be ranked above SEC, Big 12, or Big 10 conference winners with 1 loss. That's because teams in those conferences are generally considered to have a stronger strength of schedule than Oregon.
So all that Oregon can do is focus on games week to week, beat Stanford, stay undefeated for the remaining games, win the PAC 12 and watch to see what happens with the other conferences.
Since teams in the other conferences play each other, I can see Oregon rising up in the rankings to #4 or #5. But it will be very difficult for the Ducks to get the #1 or #2 spot.
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If Appalachian State upsets LSU, should they be considered in the BCS RANKINGS.?
If Appalachian State upsets LSU, should they be considered in the Bcs rankings.?
After Appalachian state upset Michigan last season, there was talk about ranking them. If they pull off another big upset do you think they should be ranked.
Answer: Everyone thinks that scheduling games are easy. This is why College AD's in the earlier years came up with the concept of having conferences, haveing a conference makes majority of your programs scheduling easier. Its another reason why most Independant programs bolted from independants to a conference, 1) better chance to be considered for a bowl, since bowls where becoming more and more alligned with existing conferences giving little chance for independants to be invited,2) the scheduling factor, Independent programs must schedule all 11 games, and sometimes get stuck playing lower tier programs, making their wins less quality and again less chance to get invited to a bowl.
Schedules are made, usually two or more years in advance, then usually when it gets closer to that game being played, lets say a year away, that university ad calls your university ad to back out of the game, they have an opportunity to play so and so instead, more money
or whatever, that puts your ad in a panic mode, now you have an open date, originally you have 7 home games, now you possibly could lose
that home game, thats revenue loss people, you call for respectable programs around your area, they are locked, now your going to a much larger program a bcs team, one's you have possibilities for are too far away, or wont agree with your terms for a home game for your team, what do you do, you look for a quick fix, maintain your 7 home games, call up a div1aa program who always eager to play a bcs team,
you pay em like 250,000 big money for them , pocket change when hosting other bcs programs. .Oh the answer is no, different division levels. Appy State plays at a Division that got it right, they have a playoff format.
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BCS Standings Week 11: Who Is Underrated, Overrated or Just ...
6 days ago ... The No. 1 LSU Tigers marched to a victory over No. 3 Alabama Crimson Tide in Tuscaloosa Saturday night, knocking one more undefeated off ...
College Football Nation: Power-rankings-111107
One of our top teams lost over the weekend, but no way were making a change after that defensive slug fest. But one team has cemented itself in the third spot: 1. LSU (9-0, 6-0): The Tigers were the survivors of "The Game" and should now ...
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Complete College Football news, scores, standings ... Yahoo! Drag the "Y!" and drop it onto the "Home" icon. Select "Yes" from the pop up window.
BCS Standings - Bowl Championship Series Rankings - College ...
2 days ago ... Get the latest Bcs rankings for the top 25 teams in college football.
College Football Rankings - CBSSports.com
College football polls and rankings at CBSSports.com include the AP Top 25 College Football Poll, Coaches Poll, Bcs rankings and CBSSports.coms own college football ...
Houston Cougars
As they did in both the USA Today Coaches and the Associated Press top-25 polls, the Houston Cougars moved up in the Bcs rankings after a Nov. 5 win at UAB. Houston (9-0 overall, 5-0 in C-USA play) enjoys its highest-ever BCS ranking at No. 11 with three ...
BCS RANKINGS: Whos More Deserving of No. 2 Spot, Alabama or Stanford?
In the event that Oklahoma State loses one of their remaining two games, the No. 2 spot in the Bcs rankings would be up for grabs, likely to Alabama or Stanford. The Crimson Tide already have one loss and the Cardinal are currently unbeaten pending the ...
BCS RANKINGS: Alabama Holds Major Edge Over One-Loss Teams Like Oklahoma
The Oklahoma Sooners only have one loss on their BCS resume. So does the Alabama Crimson Tide. Yet the difference between the two is far and wide with the Crimson Tide only falling one spot from their No. 2 ranking from Week 10 to No. 3 this ...
2011 NCAA College Football Polls and Rankings for Week 11 - ESPN
All, USA Today Coaches' Poll, AP Top 25, Harris Poll, Scripps Legends Poll ...
College Football Week 10 BCS Buster Power Rankings
Has Boise State reached its stasis point, unable to move any higher no matter what happens to the teams above them? Could we have as many as five non-AQ schools ranked in the Top 25 of the BCS standings as soon as this time next week?! And will the MAC ...
NCAA College Football BCS Standings Week 11 - ESPN
Check out college football's BCS standings for Week 11.
Projected BCS RANKINGS: Nov 13 - TigerFan.com
1. LSU 2. Oklahoma State 3. Alabama 4. Oregon 5. Oklahoma 6. Arkansas 7. Clemson 8. Virginia Tech 9. Stanford 10. Houston I firmly believe Oklahoma State,
BCS RANKINGS: Houston and Teams That Deserve BCS Opportunity ...
Bcs rankings: Houston and Teams That Deserve BCS Opportunity. Bob Levey/Getty Images With the exception of conference winners, teams not in the Top 10 of the BCS rarely get a chance at a BCS game, they really can't. Well, I am not ...
BCS RANKINGS: 3 Darkhorse Teams Who Can Sneak into the ...
With at least two games remaining in the regular season, which teams ranked in the top-10 of the Bcs rankings have a shot at sneaking into the championship game? No. 8 Arkansas (8-1). The Arkansas Razorbacks are ...
Why do all the teams at the top of the BCS RANKINGS have no challenging opponents?
I mean Miami played ranked teams 4 of the first 5 games. How are these rankings fair?
Answer: Because as long as the BCS is the system used, coaches for top teams will play the system. They know if they win all of their games then they will be in the NC game. Urban Meyer knows this, Mack Brown knows this, and Nick Saban knows this.
Until a playoff is implemented these coaches will continue to schedule easy opponents to ensure they will have the best shot to be in the National Championship
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BCS Standings - CBSSports.com
College football polls and rankings at CBSSports.com include the AP Top 25 College Football Poll, Coaches Poll, Bcs rankings and CBSSports.com's own ...
BCS RANKINGS: Who Will Play in BCS Championship? | ThirdAge
Bcs rankings are scheduled to be released on Sunday night and experts dont anticipate many changes in the rankings. At the national level it is expected ...
College Football BCS RANKINGS: Michigan State Stays At No. 17, Michigan Falls
The latest Bcs rankings are in and the Michigan State Spartans are in the same spot as last week even after they received a huge boost for their Rose Bowl aspirations this weekend. Legends Division contenders Nebraska and Michigan were both ...
Does your local newspaper print the BCS RANKINGS?
The Dallas Morning News prints only the AP rankings. I honestly dont care about the AP poll and I think the newspaper is showing a bias toward its own professional organization by ignoring the BCS.
Answer: No
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has the BCS RANKINGS ever had 3 weeks in a row where a new #1 was named?
Just wondering if anyone knows
if Ohio State Loses saturday, they will lose the number 1 spot... will that be the 1st time ever that the Bcs rankings has crowned 3 teams #1 in as many weeks?
Answer: more than likely nit has happened in the regular poles
but the BCS doesn't come out until after week 8
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NCAA College Football BCS Standings Week 11 - ESPN
BCS: Harris Poll: USA Today: Computer Rankings: RK: TEAM: AVG: PVS: RK: PTS % RK : PTS % AVG : A&H: RB: CM: KM: JS: PW % 1: LSU.9931: 1: 1: 2848.9906: 1: 1475: 1.0000 ...
2011 NCAA College Football Polls and Rankings for Week 11 - ESPN
Dropped from rankings: Arizona State 20, West Virginia 24; Others receiving votes: TCU 56, Ohio State 50, Arizona State 15, Florida State 12, Washington 8, Iowa 4 ...
Houston Cougars Move Up in BCS RANKINGS; an Upsurge in Sales Reported by TicketLuck.com
Houston Cougars, with a 6-0 starting record, have moved up from number 21 to number 19 in Bcs rankings. In a report presented by Houston Chronicle, Bcs rankings released this Sunday showed Cougars moving up four standings from their previous position. The ...
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BCS standings
Jan 21, 2010 ... Since the 2000 regular season, the BCS standings have been compiled by the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame. ...
BCS RANKINGS Week 11: Winners and Losers from Latest Poll ...
The Week 11 edition of the Bcs rankings have been released. The Top 5 has shuffled, and the bottom half was also shaken-up. Alabamas loss to LSU in Week 10 made a ...
How does LSU advance in the BCS RANKINGS after loss to Alabama?
LSU advanced in the Bcs rankings, but how? What teams were ahead of them that also lost in order for them to stay in the top 10?
Answer: Oregon and Iowa lost. But, to stay in the top 10 when you were 9 to start is an insult to anyone with an IQ. Teams drop 5 slots or more with a loss this late.
The sec central office would have to have total control over rankings and outcomes of all games instead of just who wins in their conference. If that was true, so much for any respect they, the BCS, or officiating crews, might have had in anyones mind.
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How are BCS bowls chosen? Is it based upon the BCS polls rankings and the Top 10 teams on that list?
Is it based upon the BCS polls rankings and the Top 10 teams on that list?
Answer: Once the final Bcs rankings are released -- which this year is 12/2 -- the national championship game will take the teams that finish ranked #1 and #2.
Then, the other four BCS bowls -- Rose, Fiesta, Orange, and Sugar -- select the remaining teams. However, you don't have to be in the top 10 to be selected. (For instance, a conference can send a maximum of two teams to BCS games, so if they have 3 teams in the top 10, they can't all go).
The bowls have conference tie-ins as well, so if Ohio State does not make the championship game, they will go to the Rose Bowl.
To read more, follow the link I've included below.
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BCS RANKINGS: Projecting the Week 12 Standings
When the first BCS standings of the season were released back in Week 8, there was a total of 10 undefeated teams vying for positioning, but now, just four weeks later, there are only three undefeated teams left in college football, after both Stanford and ...
College Football Rankings, Week 10: Harris Poll Sets Up Second ...
The Bcs rankings will be revealed in approximately four hours, which means the various polls and ratings involved in the BCS are now available. The Harris ...
When is the earliest you can find college footballs BCS RANKINGS and where?
There used to be a BCS show that came on Sunday nights, is that still around? And what channel?
Answer: The very first place they come out is on fox right after the NFL games end. On the show the OT with terry, howie jimmy johnson. They will go over the days NFL games and then will do the BCS. It takes over an hour to get the complete details of the bcs, with each pc ranking and everything online. But foxsports.com and espn.com are the fastest ones to get it up. cfn.scout.com claims to have the very first bcs analysis before any site online.
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NCAA Polls - College Football BCS Top 25 Poll | FOX Sports on MSN
Complete NCAA BCS Poll of the top 25 college football teams. ... Power Rankings; Fantasy; Tickets
2011 College Football Rankings Week 11
The BCS top 25 standings and college football rankings week 11 are headed for another massive shake-up this weekend. The 2011 season is nearing completion and the battle for national supremacy in the BCS standings is coming down to the wire. Week 11 ...
BCS RANKINGS 2011: Explosive Oklahoma State Will Slip in ...
Bcs rankings 2011: Explosive Oklahoma State Will Slip in Rankings After Blowout. Posted by NFC East Report on November 12th, 2011. Click. Bcs rankings 2011: Explosive Oklahoma State Will Slip in Rankings After Blowout. Oklahoma ...
Scout.com: BCS Conference Rankings: Week 11
There hasnt been any change in the top three BCS conferences standings but there has been a definite separation between the top three conferences and the bottom ...
College Football Power Rankings: the Ferringo 15
The Ferringo 15 college football power rankings is my own unique twist on the obsessive ranking systems that have dominated the sport for nearly a century. The Ferringo 15 is my Profit-Power Rankings; a rating of the 15 teams that I think hold the most ...
Where can I find the Strength of Schedule for the BCS RANKINGS?
I was looking through the Bcs rankings and did not find the strength of schedule on it. DOes anyone know where I can find that.
Answer: The BCS is a joke. For accurate Ratings I use the BGS Power Ratings, found right here on Yahoo!
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-hnYMpcM2eqTlIRPFHJaoRLdQJ3cVjDI-?cq=1&p=134
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Does the BCS update their rankings after the Championship Game? Who is ranked higher USC or Texas?
I have a bet on the "Final Bcs rankings".
Answer: The BCS does not release any more rankings after the bowl games, another stupid feature that calls for a playoff! The AP does release a poll, and it can be found at this link www.appoll.com
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Why does Yahoo Sports scoreboard use the AP rankings instead of the BCS RANKINGS?
These are rankings that are displayed next to a team in the schedules and scores.
Answer: $$$ - Yahoo is a sell out..... just check your spam folder after a day on YA
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