how does the college football bowl game system work?

Question

(how does a team get picked to play in a certain bowl game?)

Answer 1

As others have said, it doesn't work. What they do is they take teams that placed in a certain place in a certain conference and put them in a bowl game. The winner of the MAC used to go to the Motor City Bowl, I don't know if they do anymore though. Some teams can get at large bids, but they must have at least 6 wins. There are so many bowl games now that almost anyone can get into one with 6 wins, which is kind of sad. Then there are the 5 BCS bowls that get the champion from the 5 major BCS conferences (Big 10, Big 12, Big East, ACC, SEC), the top two teams in the BCS polls, and 3 at large teams from the top 10 in the BCS or the top 12 if they are a non major conference team.

Answer 2

The BCS ranks teams based a number of polls, margins of victory, common opponents, and strength of schedule stats. The top 8 teams play in the four BCS bowl games, including Rose Bowl, Orange Bowl, Sugar Bowl and Fiesta Bowl. The other bowl games are generally determined by tradtional conference matchups. For example, the old Rose Bowl (before the BCS) used to pit the Big-10 winner against the Pac-10 winner.

As you can see from the above comments, a lot of people have a severe dislike of the Bowl Championship Series because it is tough for smaller market schools to make the championship game even with an undefeated season.

Answer 3

All but D1 seed that way. D1 uses the bowl system. Conference champions are guaranteed one of the five big money bowls. One of the bowl games, championship game, is played by the #1 and #2 ranked teams. Little has changed in the last sixty years. The main changes are the BCS championship game and the guaranteed BCS bowl spots for any of the big six conference winners and a guaranteed spot for the five mid-major conference champions if they're ranked in the top twelve in the polls. The BCS, comprised of the big six conferences, sponsors the five bowl games. It has no relationship with NCAA except that all of the big six conference teams are members of the NCAA. Bill78 - The BCS never gave out two championships. In 2003 the BCS awarded one championship and the AP poll, no ties with the BCS, awarded the championship to another team. That occurred several times over the years prior to the BCS.

Answer 4

It doesn't work, even though I think they got it right last year, and are doing so this year. But consider this, what if the most obscure Division I coach from the most obscure Division I team just happened to gather up a bunch of farm boys, and put together the best team in the country. Even though they went undefeated, they probably wouldn't be playing for the Championship, due to the strength of opponents and the weekly polls. NCAA football, like basketball, needs a playoff system. I'll trust the coaches and press with picking, say, the top 16 teams for a playoff, but those teams need win a playoff to call themselves the best. Until then, it's more of a popularity contest than a competitive sport.

Answer 5

IT DOES NOT work!!! The system takes the 8 best teams according to computer statistics, this would be okay if they 8 teams played in a tournament...BUT NO, 1 plays 2 and that is your Champ, the other 6 play for large amounts of money but have no way of becoming champions. No other sports league operates this way and looking at the other sports Number 1 very rarely plays Numer 2, therefore College Football is really not crowning the best team the champ.

Answer 6

THe Computor Program is not called the BCS, thats the name of the top 4 bowls. (Fiesta,Rose,Suger,and the Orenge)There is a computor System that looks at wins loses and stranth of schdule. By thos 3 things the computor creates bowl games.

Answer 7

A team has to win at least six games to be eligible to go to a bowl. The individual conferences have agreements with certain bowls to send a representative to their bowl as long as said team meets the 6-win requirement.

Answer 8

Really, I have no idea, but to help you they take the best eight and put themin the BCS bowl games, and some of the other ones, like the Capital One Bowl, have conference vs. conference(in the Capital One Bowl's case Big Ten vs. SEC).

Answer 9

Well, all that really matter is no.1 BCS versus no.2 BCS plays in the national championship, heres a full list

Rose Bowl
Pasadena, CA
Rose Bowl
January 1, 2007, ABC
BCS vs. BCS (Big 10 vs. Pac 10 if available)
Bowl Projection: Michigan vs. USC

Fiesta Bowl
Glendale, AZ
Glendale Stadium
January 1, 2007, Fox
BCS vs. BCS (Big 12 Champion to play here if available)
Bowl Projection: Texas vs. Boise State

Orange Bowl
Miami, FL
Dolphins Stadium
January 2, 2007, Fox
BCS vs. BCS (ACC Champion to play here if available)
Bowl Projection: Georgia Tech vs. Louisville

Sugar Bowl
New Orleans, LA
Louisiana Superdome
January 3, 2007, Fox
BCS vs. BCS (SEC Champion to play here if available)
Bowl Projection: Notre Dame vs. Auburn

BCS Championship Game
Glendale, AZ
Glendale Stadium
January 8, 2007, Fox
BCS No. 1 vs. BCS No. 2
Bowl Projection: Ohio State vs. Florida

Answer 10

There is a computer program called the BCS. It takes on all the info and spits out who plays where in all or most of the bowls.
Many sports fans don't approve of it though.