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Kyran Jones Mrs. Stone H English 23 February 2010 BCS (Bowl Championship Series) or College Playoff This BCS is a system of games played to pick the top two best college teams. The BCS is a great thing to some people, but to other people they think college football need to adopt the playoff system like the NFL (National Football League). The BCS has good and bad thing about it.

How do they determine the BCS ranking? The BCS is determined by a rating system to determine who should play in the National Championship game at the end of the season. The top two teams in the ratings at the end of the regular season will meet in the title game. The automatic qualification standards are not the same for all teams. The teams are divided into four groups: automatic qualifying conferences (ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Big East, Pac Ten, SEC), nonautomatic qualifying conferences (C-USA, MAC, Mtn West, Sun Belt, WAC), Notre Dame, and other independents. These schools are the top money maker conferences that bring the most revenue to the BCS. The BCS is big business revenue for the NCAA. Ranking in the BCS is setup by the top 25 teams in the NCAA. A computer determines the order of the ranking. They are six computers that they use to rank the top 25 teams in the

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BCS. They are Jeff Anderson-Chris Hester, Richard Billingsley, Wes Colley, Kenneth Massey, Jeff Sagarin, and Peter Wolfe.

Jeff Anderson-Chris Hester rates D1A teams only. The strength of team’s schedule factors in conference strength of opponents, which is based on how conference teams do in nonconference play. It also appears to give weight to how a team performs against better opposition.

It considers game location, but not the date. They are not published until after fifth week.

Richard Billingsley rates D1A teams only. Carries a team's rank over from previous year and values early part of season more highly. Also gives slight emphasis to recent performance. If a team does not play, its raw rating (as opposed to ranking) does not change that week. If a team wins, it goes up and if it loses, with rare exception, it goes down. Has a detailed explanation on his site, although he does not provide his formula. The game location given is very minor consideration.

Wes Colley Rates D1A teams only, plus provisional 1A teams (like Troy St in 2001). His ratings only consider games between I-A opponents, although in 2007, he made a change to account for games against I-AA foes by grouping I-AA teams and treating the groups like a I-A team. Guidelines for forming those groups are listed on his site, but he doesn't always follow them precisely. Publishes his formula on his website, but you need to be a math geek to understand it. Publishes ratings at the beginning of the season, but uses no prior season data.

Everyone starts at 0.5. Game location and date are not considered. Kenneth Massey Rates all NCAA and NAIA teams. Starts everyone at zero and starts publishing at the beginning of the season. The formula does not consider home field advantage or game date. Massey provides a

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description of his MOV based system on his site, but we can't be sure how much, if any, of that description applies to his BCS ratings.

Jeff Sagarin Rates all DI teams, both IA and IAA. The BCS will not be using the ratings Sagarin is famous for, but rather a rating system he calls "Elo Chess," which does not include MOV. Presumably, he named it "Elo Chess" because it is based on the rating system used for chess players developed by Arpad Elo. Home field advantage is considered. Peter Wolfe Rates all NCAA and NAIA teams. It does not publish rankings until the week of the first release.

Rankings based on actual outcome vs. probability of that outcome occurring. ("http://www.collegebcs.com/bcsfaq.html#Puter") Is it fair to smaller division? The smaller team really wants the playoff system in the NCAA. They think that the BCS is unfair to the s m a l l e r s c h o o l s s u c h a s t h e s e c o n f e r e n c e s C-USA, MAC, Mtn West, Sun Belt, WAC, Notre Dame, and other independents schools. In 2009-2010 sessions the Boise State Bronco went undefeated but they did not play in the National Championship. Why is that? The Broncos was not in the big conferences so they did not get to play for it. The BCS say that they did not have a very challenging schedule.

The revenue for the BCS is big that why they only have the bigger conferences in the National Championship Game. The conferences and institutions participating in the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) today released unofficial and estimated data of the net revenue from the 2010-11 games. For the second straight year, the non-AQ conferences will receive a record amount of BCS revenues ($24.72 million) because of two factors: TCU's automatic berth in a

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BCS game; and the increase in overall revenues from the new arrangement with ESPN and the bowls.

As a result of a decision made by the five non-AQ conferences in 2004 (not by the BCS group), the overall amount of $24.72 million will be allocated among those conferences, instead of remaining with the Mountain West Conference, whose champion, TCU played in the Rose Bowl game. Since the non-AQ conferences have not yet released this year's revenue distribution plan, it is not possible to calculate the share per conference at this time.

In addition to the estimated $24.72 million that the non-AQ conferences are expected to receive from the appearance of TCU, the following net distributions are expected to be made to the six AQ conferences: Atlantic Coast, Big East, Big 12 -- $21.2 million each Big Ten, Southeastern, Pac-10 -- $27.2 million each (Note: These three conferences each had two teams in the BCS bowls, which is why their distribution is higher than the other AQ conferences.)

"For the second straight year, the non-AQ conferences will see a record amount of revenues because of their participation in the BCS, which shows the strength and fairness of the current system. The fact is that all of Division I football is better off because of the BCS, financially and otherwise," said Bill Hancock. ( " h t t p : / / w w w . b c s f o o t b a l l . o r g / n e w s / s t o r y ? id=6057935") If the NCAA chose to switch to the playoff it will be a 16 bracket setup. The games will be played in place of the bowl games that way fans can still enjoy the bowl city games. It will be the teams who place

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first in their conferences and they will have a spot for the runner up team.

There are some great thing about the college BCS but also I can see a playoff system to make it fair for the small teams to have a chace to play in the BCS.