Bowl Championship Series or the Term Paper

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It must be mentioned at this point that the original polls which were used until the 2004 to 2005 season, used certain criterion like for example, the team's average, the team's computer ranking average, its schedule rank, its number of losses, and also a quality win component. This sort of tough as nails formula would make sure that the teams would be prepared to play much harder and tougher games and compete more aggressively, with relatively more pressure on them to win.

Today, with the advent of the Bowl Championship Series methods of selection, it is stated that the games become like 'cream puff non-conference' games. In the year 2003, the USC was in fact ranked first in both human polls, but it only managed to finish third in the Bowl Championship series. LSU, ranked first, and Oklahoma, ranked second in the Bowl Championships, but were second and third respectively in the human polls. These two teams managed to square off in the Bowl Championship Series Title Game. The AP poll, demonstrating its reluctance to take part in the Bowl Championship Series polls, utilized this chance to select USC as the champion after it happened to win the Rose Bowl, resulting in the emergence of two champions yet again.
When the Bowl Championship Series decided that the formula had to be changed, the aim was to remove the loss and the quality win and the strength of the schedule component form the formula, so that the eventual result would be that the top two teams according to the polls would be the top two Bowl Championship Series teams. Today, the teams no longer have to play extremely tough schedules, and this means that a great part of the excitement is gone already. Furthermore, the Bowl Championship Series polls seem to be completely useless. (Guidelines for Fixing the Bowl Championship series)

In conclusion, it can be stated that the Bowl Champion Series ranking system must be changed and amended and re- formatted, because it is obvious that this is not the very best solution there can be for post season play. Perhaps the old excitement of football games would come back as well, with the implementation of the changes......

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