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When the NCAA Board of Directors voted to add a 12th regular season game in major college football starting in 2006, the hope among fans was that it would rekindle intersectional rivalries. Who could forget USC-Alabama of the 1970s or Notre Dame-Miami of the 1980s? Instead, the 12th game merely exacerbated a disturbing trend of…
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Who says players can’t get paid? Sports Business Journal (via The Sporting Blog), has a big list of athlete schwag from each of the bowl games. It’s a tasty list. Though it definitely makes a difference which game you’re playing in. Here’s what you get for playing in the BCS Championship Game: Allstate BCS Championship…
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Jeff Mezydlo, Associated Press When the season began, Southern California didn’t expect to wind up playing in the Rose Bowl. Either did Illinois. After one of the most unpredictable seasons in college football history, however, the Trojans and Illini will meet on New Year’s Day in a BCS matchup few would have predicted… continue
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According to Tickets Now, the average price of a ticket is going for $542, second only to the BCS title game ($1,489). By contrast, Sugar Bowl tickets are $279.
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It all seemed to be falling into place for USC, the near-unanimous preseason choice to win the national championship, to sneak its way back into BCS title contention. Then-No. 1 Missouri and No. 2 West Virginia lost late Saturday night. “Somebody out there likes us,” senior defensive end Lawrence Jackson said.
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The BCS matchups are out, and well, it’s a mess. No shocker there. Almost everyone, except Buckeye and LSU Tigers fans are irate, and to be honest, they have reason to be. You could make a viable ca…
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Scott Wolf, Los Angeles Daily News USC players went nearly silent when the BCS pairings showed the Rose Bowl selected unheralded Illinois to play the Trojans on New Year’s Day, so a staff member clapped and yelled in an effort to generate enthusiasm. But USC coach Pete Carroll created enough interest on his own Sunday…
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Dan Weber, Riverside Press-Enterprise The goal is always the Rose Bowl, anyone around the USC football program will tell you. But the Jan. 1 matchup the BCS dealt USC, against an Illinois team ranked the lowest of teams getting BCS bowl invitations Sunday, wasn’t exactly what USC was hoping for. The two-loss Trojans (10-2) knew…
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Let’s say you’re one of the BCS high muckey-mucks and you check out this year’s final rankings and what do you see. Well, for one thing, you see a two-loss Virginia Tech team that played in probably the worst of the six BCS conferences, a Va. Tech team that lost by 41 points, yep forty-one,…
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For those who have asked, yes, the Rose Bowl committee did indeed get first choice of available teams to invite to play USC. And yes, the Rose Bowl did invite the worst of the teams to get into a BCS bowl, No. 13 Illinois. And yes, Illinois did indeed lose to Missouri, the deserving Big…
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<!–start image–><!– end image–>So it all comes down to this. One game for the conference championship and another BCS appearance. Lose it, and it’s off to the Holiday Bowl to play Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, or Texas. Win it, and Ohio State or Georgia likely waits on the horizon
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Pete Carroll isn’t sure of the perfect system, but he knows one thing — the BCS doesn’t determine the best team.
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