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The Definitive Case Against the Bowl Championship Series
Penguin
October 2010
On Sale: October 14, 2010
208 pages
ISBN: 1592405703
EAN: 9781592405701
Hardcover
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A team of award-winning sports reporters takes down the
Great Satan of college sports: the Bowl Championship Series. Every college sport picks its champion by a postseason
tournament, except for one: Division I-A football. Instead
of a tournament, fans are subjected to the Bowl Championship
Series, an arcane mix of polling and mathematical rankings
that results in just two teams playing for the championship.
It is, without a doubt, the most hated institution in all of
sports. A recent Sports Illustrated poll found that more
than 90 percent of sports fans oppose the BCS, yet this
system has remained in place for more than a decade. Built
upon top-notch investigative reporting, Death to the BCS at
last reveals the truth about this monstrous entity and
offers a simple solution for fixing it. Death to the BCS includes findings from interviews with
power players, as well as research into federal tax records,
Congressional testimony, and private contracts, revealing: •The truth behind the "Cartel"-the anonymous suits who run
the BCS and who profit handsomely by protecting it •The flawed math and corruption that determine which teams
participate in the national championship •How the system hurts competition by perpetuating "cupcake"
schedules •How "mid-major" teams are systematically denied a chance to
play for the championship •How a comprehensive sixteen-team playoff plan can solve the
problem while enhancing profitability The first book to lay out the unseemly inner workings of the
BCS in full detail, Death to the BCS is a rousing manifesto
for bringing fairness back to one of our most beloved sports.
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