July 12, 2012
The King is dead. Long live the King. As outlined in Part 2 of the Gridiron Bracketology series, fans were ready yesterday for a 16-team, college-football playoff-tournament. So when it was announced that college football voted to abolish the old “bowl-and-poll systems” that crowned national champions in the FBS division, in favor of a new ...
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July 5, 2012
Almost as soon as officials in charge of college football announced a historic agreement to discard the BCS system and implement a new, 4-team tournament-style, playoff to decide an annual national champion at the highest-level of college football (I.e., the FBS, Football Bowl Subdivision), fans and media immediately began clamoring for an expansion of the ...
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July 2, 2012
On Wednesday, June 26, 2012, a group of 12 college presidents announced that a proposed tournament-playoff system for the NCAA’s largest division of college football was officially “passed into law” and would begin with a 4-team tournament to crown a champion for the 2014 season. This means that the BCS system, the end-of-year polls, the ...