Relative stability has been the MAC's calling card for most of its existence. Ohio is the only original member, but half the membership is part of the group that formed the league's nucleus in the early 1950s and three others joined back in the 1970s. The last three have been around for two decades or more. While it has rarely been...
First, excuse the tardiness. It took a week to reconcile myself to the reality that nobody would bust the BCS in its final season. While it is not the storybook ending that would cap the history of this era succinctly, it might just be the ending we needed to make us realize what this era really taught.
For the sixteen years of BCS...
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! We're into the penultimate week of the 2013 college football regular season, and the stakes are high as rivals square off and conferences determine their championship contenders.
Not that you necessarily want to trust our judgment. We're limping to the finish line, with the three of us posting a combined...
The Huskies halved the gap to the Bulldogs in the BCS standings after the twelfth week of play. While Fresno State sat idle during a bye week, Northern Illinois survived a tough fight against Ball State in nationally-televised Wednesday #MACtion. The Week 11 standings showed Fresno with a lead of 0.0812 in the BCS calculations; NIU's...
The most interesting thing to come out of this weekend of play was the separation that has developed between Fresno State and Northern Illinois. Currently occupying the 14th and 15th spots in the BCS standings, the two teams are both still very much alive for a BCS berth. But as long as both teams keep winning, the odds are stacked...
On the tenth week of the college football season, four of the ten BCS Busters still alive in the race to break into the party were idle. It was a weekend where little could be won, but all could be lost.
The West Division of Conference USA proved that all too well, as it has so many times in the past. Both Tulane and Rice, which stood...
Already we're in for an interesting finale to the season, for there are two undefeated BCS Buster hopefuls that are already knocking on the door of automatic qualification. What we must start to ask is not whether there is a chance that some team will bust the BCS in 2013, but which team might break through -- and whether both undefeated...
The BCS numbers are officially out, there for the whole world to scrutinize. And while this season looks nothing like 2010, when three BCS Buster hopefuls (Boise State and then-MWC members TCU and Utah) were in the top 10 of the first official rankings of that season, two teams are positioned to upset the system one last...
One week remains before the BCS standings are officially released for the first time this season. Soon we'll know where everyone is positioned in the final edition of the series, though with the Harris Poll's release we're awfully close to having the numbers crunched already.
Two teams are already in position to snag a lucrative...
Twenty teams have joined the FBS ranks over the past two decades. Five more are on their way into the uppermost division of college football over the next three years. As the past month of case studies has illustrated, teams that have taken the leap in the modern era have experienced the full spectrum of successes and...
