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The BCS National Championship game is the final game of college football's Bowl Championship Series, pitting the top two teams in the BCS standings following regular-season play to determine a national champion....

I must say, yesterday's chat was by far the best Pac-12 chat of the year. You can read the whole thing here or catch the highlights. Tim Gray (Palo Alto): Does Stanford finish in the top 5 in the BCS standings? Kevin Gemmell (2:03 PM): Very goo...

Brian Fremeau ranks the top 10 college football teams from the past five seasons that did not play in the BCS title game, examining how each -- including the 2012 Oregon Ducks and Kansas State Wildcats -- would have fared in a four-team playoff.

Story | Conversation | January 03, 2013

Brian Fremeau ranks the 10 BCS title game participants of the last five seasons, explaining what it means for this season's matchup between Alabama and Notre Dame.

Story | Conversation | January 02, 2013

Brad Edwards digs into the numbers to dispel four "myths" for bowl season, including the idea that Johnny Manziel will have a huge game against the Oklahoma defense in the Cotton Bowl.

Story | Conversation | December 20, 2012

The Seminoles may be the class of the ACC on the football field, but that standing doesn't carry over in the newly unveiled "Academic BCS" rankings. The folks at the New America Foundation have ranked the Top 25 teams in the final BCS standings ba...

Northwestern finished No. 20 in the BCS standings and will play in a New Year's Day bowl game as a 9-3 team. That's impressive. Maybe even more impressive is the Wildcats finished No. 1 in the "Academic BCS." That's the term for the New America...

Brian Fremeau examines the five teams that were the luckiest in college football this season and what they need to do next year to avoid taking a step back.

Story | Conversation | December 11, 2012

Brian Fremeau examines the five teams that were the unluckiest in college football this season and how they could take a step forward next year.

Story | Conversation | December 11, 2012

Texas coach Mack Brown receives vote of confidence from school president Bill Powers and AD DeLoss Dodds.

With two weeks left in the season, Northern Illinois began to prepare for a BCS bowl game. So when the Huskies beat Eastern Michigan, then Kent State in the MAC championship game, then squeaked into the top 16 in the BCS standings, they were into ...

The Big Ten's bowl lineup is set, and not surprisingly, it looks daunting. A league that failed to put any teams in the top 15 of the final BCS standings faces three teams in the top 10 -- No. 6 Stanford, No. 7 Georgia and No. 10 South Carolina. The ...

Brad Edwards projects the four-team playoff field and the rest of the major bowls as if the playoff system were in effect this year.

Story | Conversation | December 03, 2012

The final BCS standings were released Sunday along with matchups for the five BCS bowls. With four weeks left until the Rose Bowl on January 1, here are some nuggets on each of the games to whet your appetite. Rose Bowl Game Presented by Vizio Wi...

Oregon will meet Kansas State in another marquee matchup at the Fiesta Bowl.

Notre Dame and Alabama finished in the top two spots in the final BCS standings released Sunday. The legendary programs bring star power and power football to the Discover BCS National Championship.