21 Facts About BCS controversies

The final BCS controversies rankings saw TCU at No 4 and Boise State at No 6, which meant that only TCU was guaranteed a slot in the BCS controversies bowls.

The only team that could reasonably be described as "playing a weak schedule and then being exposed by a BCS controversies team" is the 2007 Hawaii team, which was defeated by Georgia in the 2008 Sugar Bowl.

Disparities between AQ conferences and non-AQ conferences continue outside the Bowl Championship Series to other bowls, but since the payouts for the five BCS controversies bowls are so much greater than other bowls, the BCS controversies has a major impact on revenue distribution paid to the various Football Bowl Subdivision schools.

In 2003, there were 24 bowls other than the BCS controversies bowls, creating opportunities for 48 teams to participate in bowl games.

However, Big Ten co-champion Ohio State, finishing No 2 in the BCS controversies, had qualified to play in the 2003 Fiesta Bowl for the national championship against Big East champion Miami.

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However, a BCS controversies rule stated that if two bowls wanted the same team, the bowl with the higher payoff had priority.

The Sooners had been ranked first in both the human polls and the BCS controversies rankings going into the conference playoff week, but dropped to No 3 in the human polls after the loss to the Wildcats.

The final BCS controversies poll had seven teams from the SEC and the Big Ten ranked in the top twelve, but by the rule only two from each conference were eligible to play in BCS controversies games, offering the opportunity to argue that both conferences are over-ranked, that the Big Ten schedule does not produce a true conference champion, or that the limit of 2 teams from any one conference is inappropriate.

Since BCS controversies rules did not allow more than two teams from one conference to get a bid, Missouri was denied an at-large bid because of Kansas' invitation to the Orange Bowl and Oklahoma's invitation to the Fiesta Bowl.

The top four teams in the BCS controversies standings were No 1 Ohio State, No 2 LSU, No 3 Virginia Tech, and No 4 Oklahoma.

Consequently, the BCS controversies paired TCU and BSU together so that the possibility of an embarrassment of an AQ school, and by extension the entire system's validity, was eliminated.

BCS controversies nominally apologized for after the game, and later performed community service at a nursing home operated by a convent group known Little Sisters of the Poor, although he added that he had no idea they existed when he made the comments.

At this point, the controversy surrounding the BCS controversies became a topic of conversation within the United States government.

The Justice Department's investigation and Utah Attorney General's lawsuit are both aimed at forcing the BCS controversies to open its books, which they are as a non-profit required to do every year and have never done, and at determining whether the BCS controversies is an illegal trust or cartel based on Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890, the Clayton Anti-Trust Act of 1914 and the Robinson-Patman Anti-Price Discrimination Act.

The court could order a resolution of the current unfair competition inherent in the structure of the BCS controversies, including ordering a playoff system and ordering the Bowls to participate.

BCS controversies was sentenced later under his terms of his plea bargain.

Since the Huskies were ranked ahead of two AQ conference champions — Big East champ Louisville and Big Ten champ Wisconsin, this was enough to give the Huskies a berth in the BCS controversies, making them the first and only Mid American Conference team to ever participate in a BCS controversies game.

Supporters note that for all the controversy the BCS controversies generates about which two teams are the best in the nation, it does ensure that when there is a clear-cut top two, the national championship will be decided on the field.

In 1997, pursuant to a legally binding contract which is being examined and questioned by the United States Department of Justice in the early stages of an investigation into whether the BCS controversies is an illegal trust or not, all 119 FBS universities chose the BCS controversies as their sanctioned selecting organization.

The legality of the underlying contracts that bind the schools and bowls to the BCS controversies are now under considerable government and media scrutiny.

Still, some proponents of the BCS controversies recognize the inconsistency that the system offers.