2008 College Football Bcs Rankings

In college football, Tennessee won a championship the year after Peyton Manning graduated. The first year of the BCS saw the Vols sweep through a grueling schedule. (They beat eight bowl teams.

The BCS human polls are subject to bias, which has been cited as one reason the University of Utah was kept out of the 2008 championship game. 4 One third of the standings are based on how the coaches rank the teams, which assumes that coaches have time to watch all of the games while also preparing their teams each week. Major college football bowl ratings dating back to the start of the BCS. College Football Playoff ratings information includes streaming viewership where available. Since the start of the BCS in 1999, no game has had a higher rating (21.7) or more viewers (35.6M) than the 2006 Rose Bowl.

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To derive a team’s poll percentages in the Harris Interactive and USA Today polls, each team’s point total is divided by a maximum 2850 possible points in the Harris Interactive Poll and 1525 possible points in the USA Today Poll. Teams are assigned an inverse point total (25 for No. 1, 24 for No. 2, etc.) for each of their respective computer poll rankings to determine the overall computer component. The highest and lowest ranking for each team is dropped, and the sum total of the remaining four rankings is divided by 100 (the maximum possible points). This figure produces a Computer Rankings Percentage. The six computer ranking providers are Anderson & Hester, Richard Billingsley, Colley Matrix, Kenneth Massey, Jeff Sagarin and Peter Wolfe. Each computer ranking accounts for schedule strength within its formula. The BCS Average is calculated by averaging the percent totals of the Harris Interactive and USA Today Polls, and Computer rankings. The highest BCS Average receives the No. 1 ranking, the second highest receives No. 2, and so forth.

The BCS is a five-game arrangement for post-season college football that is managed by the 11 Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division I-A) conferences and Notre Dame. Its purpose is to match the two top-ranked teams in the final BCS standings in a national championship game and to create competitive match-ups in the four other BCS bowl games. The No. 1 and No. 2 teams in the Dec. 7 BCS standings will play in the FedEx BCS National Championship Game Jan. 8, 2009, in Miami, FL. The winner of the game will be presented the American Football Coaches Association National Championship Trophy. For more information, visithttp://www.bcsfootball.org.

Here are the BCS Rankings standings for 2008 as of November 23. In these new BCS 2008 Rankings, Alabama and Texas Tech hold their positions again while Penn State has really fallen off.

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Below are the current rankings:

BCS Rankings Standings 2008!
1 Alabama 11-0
2 Texas Tech 10-1
3 Texas 10-1
4 Florida 10-1
5 Oklahoma 10-1
6 USC 9-1
7 Utah 12-0
8 Penn State 11-1
9 Boise State 11-0
10 Ohio State 10-2
11 Georgia 9-2
12 Oklahoma State 9-2
13 Missouri 9-2
14 Brigham Young 10-2
15 Michigan State 9-3
16 TCU 10-2
17 Ball State 11-0
18 LSU 7-4
19 Cincinnati 9-2
20 Pittsburgh 7-3
21 Oregon State 8-3
22 North Carolina 7-4
23 Miami (FL) 7-4
24 Oregon 8-3
25 Maryland 7-4

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