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	BCS changes may keep Big East in fold \| ajc.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The BCS adopted new rules Wednesday that could change which leagues' champions are guaranteed berths in one of college football's five biggest bowl games.
		The conference commissioner with the biggest smile on Wednesday was the Mountain West's Craig Thompson.
		That payoff will be similar to what a member of a BCS conference would receive, a bit over $1 million a year.
	www.ajc.com /sports/content/sports/0405/28bcs.html (604 words)

	BCSP X-5: Div. IA without the BCS? Costly.
		The leading revenue generator amongst the BCS conferences for the season was the Big 10.
		During the 2002-2003 bowl season, Conference USA's members had the most bowl appearances of teams not in a BCS conference with five (six for 2003-2004 with the addition of the Fort Worth Bowl).
		Both conferences have several schools that are struggling to meet the attendance requirements (15,000 per home game) needed to remain a I-A member and in the near future their programs may be sent back to I-AA.
	www.onnidan.com /bcsp/1005/stry10052.htm (1315 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Instead, conferences will be graded by the performance of their football teams over a four-year period that began last fall.
		When the BCS changes were announced recently, much of the focus was on the Big East, weakened by the defections of Miami, Boston College and Virginia Tech to the ACC.
		The BCS is grading conferences with three measurements: the average rank of the league's highest-rated team in the BCS standings; the average rank in the BCS computer polls of all the league's teams; and the number of Top 25 teams.
	www.knoxstudio.com /shns/story.cfm?pk=FBCBRANCH-05-09-05&cat=FC (772 words)

	ESPN.com: NCF - Rovell: Mid-majors longing for piece of BCS pie
		Benson is commissioner of the Western Athletic Conference, and Thompson is commissioner of the Mountain West.
		But if it doesn't crack the top six in the BCS standings because of its weak strength of schedule (ranked 109th among 117 Division I-A football schools), it won't be guaranteed a bid to a BCS bowl.
		Because conferences with two schools in BCS bowls don't receive two full shares -- they receive one and a half shares instead -- the rest is divided among the other five conferences, or about $2 million per conference.
	espn.go.com /ncf/s/2001/1112/1277029.html (1362 words)

	ESPN.com - NCF - About the BCS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The BCS was established to determine the national champion for college football while maintaining and enhancing the bowl system that's nearly 100 years old.
		The BCS has worked to develop a system that not only allows the selection process to be completed at the end of the regular season and creates better matchups.
		Should a BCS Bowl's host champion be ranked number one or two in the final BCS standings, when such bowl is not hosting the national championship game, the number one- or two-ranked team shall move to the national championship game and the Bowl shall select a replacement team from the BCS pool of eligible teams.
	sports.espn.go.com /sports/tvlistings/abcStory?page=aboutbcs (563 words)

	Utah's Fiesta a party for all Mountain West \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Though conferences essentially return the money when they disperse the year's revenues to their members, membership fees gauge just how disadvantaged a conference can be when trying to cover its costs upfront.
		Showing what a BCS conference can do for a school of similar size, Texas Tech's budget has grown from $9.4 million in 1994, when the Red Raiders played in the smaller Southwest Conference, to close to $40 million now in the Big 12.
		Conference IRS forms bear this out – and give substance to the campaign by the WAC and Mountain West for New Deal-like reform in the BCS.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20041229/news_1s29utah.html (1845 words)

	Boston.com / Sports / College / Football / Frogs can jump into BCS picture
		It is important since a BCS berth guarantees each participant slightly more than $15 million, which is 15 times the amount a school from a non-BCS league could make in any other bowl game.
		TCU is a member of Conference USA, which has five schools -- Marquette, DePaul, Cincinnati, Louisville, and South Florida -- heading to the Big East as part of the reconfiguration saga that has enveloped college athletics the past several months.
		Conference USA schools have opposed an early exit thus far, claiming financial hardship they feel can be mitigated only by exit fees.
	www.boston.com /sports/colleges/football/articles/2003/11/11/frogs_can_jump_into_bcs_picture (682 words)

	USATODAY.com - Notes: BCS conference pushed back, expected this week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The BCS is also in the process of simplifying the formula used to determine which teams play in the title game.
		BCS officials have said that the new formula will rely more on the USA TODAY/ESPN coaches poll and The Associated Press media poll, and less on the computer polls.
		The BCS took a public relations beating last season when LSU and Oklahoma played in the Sugar Bowl for the national title, while Southern California was ranked No. 1 in both polls.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/college/2004-06-07-notes_x.htm (857 words)

	Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005 Conference - BCS2005 Asia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The conference was arranged by Bellua Asia Pacific and supported by Excelcomindo Pratama (XL), one of Indonesia's largest GSM operators and infrastructure providers.
		The BCS conference brought together, for the first time in Indonesia, internationally recognized experts in the security community as well as leading members of the local Indonesian technology and security industry.
		The conference talks were spread across 2 concurrent tracks focusing on both business and technical aspects of information security.
	www.bellua.com /bcs2005 (393 words)

	College Football News Forum - Add MWC to the BCS? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		If the conference were to bring this to the table I definitely think that the conference should be granted an automatic BCS bid.
		As it is, the BigEast is the only BCS conference w/o an anchor BCS bowl for 2006 and beyond (B10, P10 has Rose, B12 Fiesta, SEC Sugar, ACC Orange), and with the 5th bowl, the top12 and top16 rules, the MWC and all other mid-majors really shouldn't gripe that much.
		BCS Bowl bound is not intended to mean the team is necessarily a top ten or top five team.
	www.collegefootballnews.com /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=19109 (1631 words)

	BCS plans to add fifth bowl \| ajc.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Early indications are that the BCS would entertain bids from existing bowls to become the fifth game.
		The current BCS deal between the bowls and ABC television, which ends after the 2005 season, will not be changed.
		Under the current BCS agreement, each of the six major conferences gets an automatic bid to one of the four games, leaving two at-large spots.
	www.ajc.com /sports/content/sports/0304/01bowl.html (519 words)

	Lions Pride
		BCS Conference teams complain they deserve a higher ranking.
		BCS schools play against conference opponents who regularly (on the whole) do well against other power schools.
		As for everyone else, the BCS may not be fixable, if the current system is deemed a failure.
	www.msu.edu /~hilljoel/nfl/archives/vol1iss5.html (1081 words)

	2nd BCS CMSG Conference - British Computer Society (BCS) Configuration Management Specialist Group Conference 2005
		BCS CMSG Conference and Exhibition - 21 and 22 June 2005
		Following on from the success of our 1st Conference, the 2nd British Computer Society Configuration Management Specialist Group (BCS CMSG) Conference and Exhibition was on 21 and 22 June, 2005, at Homerton College in Cambridge, UK.
		The conference themes included large-scale systems programmes and projects, CM in software development in commercial environments and CM across the lifecycle to including service management.
	www.bcs-cmsg.org.uk /conference/2005/index.shtml (441 words)

	BCS controversy strikes again (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Now we're left with this: three unbeaten teams from BCS conferences, five unbeaten teams for the first time in 25 years and a whole lot of controversy.
		BCS coordinator Kevin Weiberg reiterated last night that university presidents and chancellors are staunchly opposed to an NFL-style playoff system.
		Pitt's final BCS standing is No. 21, meaning the Panthers are not the lowest-ranked team to qualify for a BCS bowl.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/04341/422421.stm (975 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Bowls, pairings, payouts hinge on outcome of BYU-Utah tilt
		The conference is also contracted to have the Las Vegas Bowl select a second team, with the next-highest-placing team bound for the Emerald Bowl in San Francisco.
		If a non-BCS conference team is ranked among the top six in the BCS' top six in its final poll, it is guaranteed a spot in one of the four BCS bowls.
		The conference has changed its bowl-revenue formula frequently over the conference's six-year existence, at one time sharing postseason profits only among schools that participated in bowl games and at another time spreading the wealth among all league members.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,595106033,00.html?y=T (950 words)

	SI.com - NCAA Football - Reactions: BCS Mess - Wednesday December 10, 2003 1:44AM
		When USC puts up 52 against a solid conference opponent and Oklahoma is spanked in its conference championship there is no way Oklahoma should end up in the Sugar Bowl.
		The BCS powers-that-be will probably throw in a "conference champion" quality factor that will help correct for a conference loser like OU making it to the title game while a conference champ sits out.
		I figured the BCS would have learned its lesson by the thumping Miami gave Nebraska and then Oregon dominated the supposed best team Colorado two seasons ago.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /2003/football/ncaa/specials/bowls/2003/12/09/bcs.reactions (1470 words)

	Boston.com / Sports / College / Football / Policy change for Irish
		Under the previous arrangement, Notre Dame, when it qualified as a BCS team, received the same payout a BCS conference champion would receive, which last year was slightly more than $14 million.
		Under the new arrangement, which will begin with the new BCS contract, starting in the 2006 regular season, the Irish will get the same $1 million share any BCS conference team receives each year regardless of how Notre Dame performed on the field.
		In other BCS news, Weiberg said that minimum standards for conferences retaining their automatic berths would remain in place for the next two seasons, but then new criteria based on the overall records of conference teams would be implemented and leagues not meeting minimum standards would have their automatic berths subject to review.
	www.boston.com /sports/colleges/football/articles/2005/04/28/policy_change_for_irish (285 words)

	Postseason Guidelines
		All conferences receiving automatic invitations are limited to one At Large team.
		A combined BCS ranking of 4 or less (#1 vs. #2 or #1 vs. #3).
		Conference members that did not meet during the regular season.
	homepages.cae.wisc.edu /~dwilson/rsfc/rate/ellerby3.html (2458 words)

	Untitled Document
		Congress has already considered bring the BCS up for anti-trust law violations and if smaller schools in the league continue to be feel they are being treated unfairly, there is a chance that Congress will take action (1).
		While BCS conference schools continue to gain the vast majority of the money the BCS makes every year, some 84 out of 90 million dollars, smaller, non-BCS conference schools will keep suffering (2).
		As BCS conference schools keep gaining money and prestige from their bowl appearances, they continue to gain even more of an advantage in recruiting.
	www.duke.edu /~mjm19/implications2.htm (342 words)

	Arizona Daily Wildcat - Commentary: Another BCS Sham This Season - Thursday, November 18, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Team B holds the 21st spot in the BCS, has gone 7-2 in a conference with no teams ranked in the top 20 of the BCS and has fallen to two unranked teams.
		The BCS assures the conference champions in the Pacific 10 Conference, Big 12 Conference, Southeastern Conference, Big Ten Conference, Atlantic Coast Conference and Big East Conference an automatic spot in its four major bowls: the Orange Bowl, the Fiesta Bowl, the Rose Bowl and the Sugar Bowl.
		With the rise of Utah and other non-BCS conference teams such as Louisville and Fresno State, the Big East's automatic BCS berth would be better used as an at-large spot for a non-BCS school like Utah or a power conference team on the outside looking in like Texas.
	wildcat.arizona.edu /papers/98/62/02_3.html (914 words)

	The Bowl Championship Series :: Enter Site
		The BCS bowl pairings will be posted between 5:30 p.m.
		To watch the BCS bowl pairings show live, tune in to your local ABC-TV affilate at 5 p.m.
		If you have questions or comments about the BCS bowl pairings or the final standings, please send them to mike@bcsfootball.org.
	www.bcsfootball.org (72 words)

	Tie-Breaker Procedures For Potential 2004 ACC Football Champions :: Winner of ACC crown is guaranteed spot in the Bowl ...
		The BCS was established to determine the national champion for college football while maintaining and enhancing the bowl system which has provided significant support to college football for nearly a century.
		The BCS Conference Champions (size, as determined by the Conference) receive automatic berths in the four BCS bowls.
		The BCS bid goes to the higher ranked team of A or B, unless Team C or D are ranked nine spaces above the higher ranked of A or B. If not teams are ranked, then BCS Bowl chooses from among Teams A and B. Teams A, B, C and D are all 1-1.
	theacc.collegesports.com /sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/092204aad.html (2572 words)

	Answers To Some Often Asked Questions Regarding the Bowl Championship Series :: The BCS Media Guide is available for ...
		Renewed the BCS bowl rotation with the same four bowl games for four more years with the national championship game going to the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl in January, 2003, the Nokia Sugar Bowl in 2004, the Fed Ex Orange Bowl in 2005 and the Rose Bowl in 2006.
		The BCS has decided that though the margin of victory calculations in the computer polls were a small part of the overall formula, it would be best to eliminate the perception of excessive margin of victory in the BCS standings.
		The conference commissioners of the six equity conferences-the Atlantic Coast Conference, the Big East, the Big 10, the Big 12, the PAC 10 and the Southeastern Conference-make decisions affecting the BCS jointly.
	theacc.collegesports.com /sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/090701aad.html (1224 words)

	DesMoinesRegister.com \| Sports
		The six conferences that control bowl bids for the Rose Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Fiesta Bowl and Orange Bowl are under attack from presidents at non-BCS schools who claim they are being excluded from the most prestigious - and top-paying - bowl games.
		The BCS schools believe their playoff system complies with federal antitrust laws - and that schools like Northern Illinois, Marshall and Toledo aren't worthy of competing against the top Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Pacific-10, Atlantic Coast and Southeastern conference teams in the BCS.
		As an undefeated Mid-American Conference champion, Northern Illinois could claim the BCS criteria for determining the top eight bowl teams unreasonably excludes them from qualifying for the $6 million bowl payment and is a violation of the federal antitrust laws.
	desmoinesregister.com /sports/stories/c6902851/22351130.html (731 words)

	Bowl Championship Series :: BCS News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The commissioners of the six conferences have been instructed by their presidents and chancellors not to explore an NFL-style college football playoff inside or outside the existing bowl system.
		The champions of these conferences agreed to loosen their ties with existing bowl partners so that a #1 vs. #2 game could occur and the six conference champions could continue to play in their traditional bowl alignments.
		Twenty years before the BCS, from 1978-1998, the four bowls now involved in the BCS hosted 160 teams—interestingly 159 of these were and are members of the six conferences or Notre Dame.
	www.bcsfootball.org /news.cfm?headline=7 (933 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports -- Mountain West Conference welcomes Texas Christian
		Based on last year's BCS standings, the eight teams in the new Big East have an average rank of 56, the highest being West Virginia at No. 33 and the lowest Cincinnati at No. 86.
		The six commissioners of the BCS conferences and the five non-BCS commissioners will meet Feb. 12-13 in Miami to continue hashing out their differences.
		There is also the thought that there will be just five BCS conferences in the future, and that the other conferences could qualify for a BCS bowl through a play-in game.
	www.signonsandiego.com /sports/college_football/20040131-9999_1s31tcu.html (1090 words)

	Collge Football '02: BCS creates college football haves, have-nots
		Over the summer, the BCS announced minor changes in its system, eliminating the "margin of victory" component and announcing "quality wins," in its eyes, would only be counted if the team were ranked in its top 10 instead of its top 15.
		In effect, membership in a BCS conference reinforces an athletic budget, whether or not a school succeeds at football.
		Critics, meanwhile, argue that because of the BCS structure, schools such as East Carolina are caught in an escalating arms race for facilities.
	web.naplesnews.com /02/08/sports/d812894a.htm (1487 words)

	USATODAY.com - Fifth BCS game key in conference TV talks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Amid concerns that a fifth Bowl Championship Series game, scheduled to start in two years, might be running into a roadblock, college conference commissioners will meet today in Chicago, where they are expected to open negotiations with at least two potential new network suitors on a new BCS contract.
		The BCS recently has been involved in negotiations on a new contract with ABC, which already renegotiated a deal through 2014 with the Rose Bowl, whose contract is done separately, for $30 million a year.
		Weiberg said the piggyback model is still a viable option and said it's too early to speculate which direction the BCS would go should the fifth bowl prove to be too unattractive to networks.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/college/football/2004-11-02-bcs-negotiations_x.htm (699 words)

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