The BCS system might be one of the most confusing selection processes in all of college sports. On the BCS website, the selection procedures total over eight-pages of nonsense that not many can make sense of. We tried to break it down for all you college football fans. The BCS is designed to ensure that the two top ranked teams make it to the national championship game at the end of the season. The site of the national championship rotates each year between the four bowl sites.
This year the national championship game will be played in Glendale, AZ on January 10, Connecting you to your favorite North Texas sports teams as well as sports news around the globe. The procedure in selecting which teams is where it gets a little confusing. There are two different types of teams AQ-teams automatic qualifying and non-AQ. Ten teams are chosen to participate in one of five bowl games. Bowl organizers are contractually obligated to host the champion of one of the five designated conferences.
Why these specific conferences? What about the others? Well, all conferences had an opportunity to earn automatic qualifications during a four-year evaluation during the seasons.
Notre Dame also receives an automatic bid if it finishes in the top eight of the BCS polls. If fewer than 10 automatic qualifiers exist, the BCS will select some at-large teams to participate. These teams must have at least nine regular season wins and finish in the top 14 of the BCS standings. Each conference can have a maximum of two teams in the BCS. If not enough teams with those qualifications exist, the BCS expands its criteria to include teams ranked between 15th and 18th.
The top two teams play in the BCS National Championship, but conferences also have contractual obligations to certain bowls. Rankings for college football teams change every week throughout football season as aggregate performance impacts how each elite team compares against the others. The CFP ranking system is the one that, ultimately, is the most meaningful. That's because CFP rankings are the ones that determine which teams will be invited to participate in the playoffs, and the playoffs determine which teams have a shot at winning a national championship.
CFP rankings are determined by a selection committee that consists of a mixture of people with expertise in football such as athletic directors, former NCAA and conference representatives and former head coaches and leaders outside the sport as of , former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Lieutenant General Mike Gould Ret.
Air Force serve on the committee. Unlike the Coaches Poll and the AP Poll that are published from the very beginning of football season, CFP rankings aren't released until mid-season, when teams have had a few months to establish their track records.
After the initial release date, CFP rankings are updated each week throughout the season, until selection day, which occurs after the last conference championship game has been played.
Even though CFP rankings aren't released from the beginning of the season, every game, and even every play, are taken into consideration when determining rankings. Factors taken into consideration include "conference championships won, strength of schedule, head-to-head results, comparison of results against common opponents and other factors.
Rankings are determined by a randomly selected panel of head football coaches at the Football Bowl Subdivision FBS schools. Every week, panel members submit their recommendations for the top 25 teams in college football. The panel members don't just submit a list of team names. Instead, the votes they turn in specify which position they feel each team should be in based on performance-to-date in the season, taking any factors they feel are relevant into consideration.
A first place vote is worth 25 points, a second place vote is worth 24 points and so on. A pre-season list of the top 25 teams is released prior to the beginning of the season, and new poll results are released each week throughout the season.
AP rankings are determined by a panel of 60 sports reporters, each of whom has experience covering college football.
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