How does college football pick its champ?

Question

Guys...don't blast me please...I'm just asking and plus I'm bored.

So I see and hear about all these bowl game for college football. It seems to me that at the end of most of them I see like a trophy presentation so is that team considered a conference/division champ?
Or what is the BCS? Bowl Committee of Selections? Do all the schools have a member who decides who plays? What are Non-BCS?
I try to look up websites but it's hard to keep up with. I can figure some stuff (like seeing who plays who) but that's about it. The basketball system seems alot easier with a tournament with all the conference champs playing each other.
HELP ME OUT HERE, GUYS!!!

Thanks for the answers so far. Does anyone have a link to website that might give the boring details?Just curious..

Answer 1

There are several divisions in college sports. In the highest division, commonly called I-A, there is no play-off and no universally accepted champion. In the past, conferences had seperate contracts with seperate bowl games and this often prevented the nations best teams from even facing each other in the bowl games. After the season, polls conducted by organizations such as the Associated Press would name a champion based upon polling their invited voters.

More recently, the Bowl Championship Series has been created to attempt to match-up the top-two teams in a bowl game to determine a champion. However, there is still controvery because there is rarely unanimous thought as to who these top two teams should be. Most fans are in favor of a play-off system, but powerful factions have financial interests in keeping the current system (notably the bowl games and their sponsors, who fear they would become less relevant in a play-off system.

The BCS uses a complicated formula to try to pick the two best teams. The formula includes 2 human polls and several computer rankings that all get averaged together.

Division I-AA does have a play-off system and it works just fine.

Answer 2

BCS is the Bowl Championship Series
the BCS conferences are the Pac 10, Big 10, Big 12, SEC, ACC, Big East, a non BCS team is a team that is not in one of those conferences. the BCS rankings come from the Coaches Poll, the Harris poll, and Computer rankings, the BCS usually causes controversy every year and is a joke and should not be used anymore

Answer 3

BCS is Bowl Championship Series.

A national "champion" is determined in the final Bowl game the National Championship game which will be held next Monday between Ohio State and Florida. These teams were selected to play based on a computer ranking of how good they are and coach's polls.

Answer 4

Basically, they do multiple polls and pick out a top 10. Then they put the names of the top ten teams onto dog bowls. They fill each bowl with an equal amount of the same dog food. They place each bowl on a straight line, with a space of 1 foot between them. Then they bring a German shepherd (female, always) in and sit her exactly ten feet away from the bowls on a spot that lines up with the fifth one.
Behind each bowl is the AD (athletic director) from each school. The dog is released and each AD tries to coax her to eat from their school's bowl.
The first five bowls that she chooses become the number 1 through 5 teams, depending on the order in which the dog chose. If she doesn't eat from at least 5 bowls, the test is started over again with a new larger, hungrier dog.
The teams that are left over then compete for spots 6 through 10. The particular placing of these 5 teams are chosen by the NCAA president, who asks each AD to identify which number between 1 and 100 that he is thinking of. The first AD to guess correctly has their team put at number 6, the next one to guess correctly at number 7 and so on.
Then the media is alerted and Michigan fans can officially start to complain.

Answer 5

BCS stands for Bowl Championship Series. Sparing you a lot of technical mumbo jumbo it consists of 5 bowl games. Four of them(Sugar, Fiesta, Orange, and Rose) consist of conference champions from BCS conferences(Pac-10, Big 10, Big 12, ACC, SEC, and Big East). The rest of the spots in these games are given to "at large" teams, which are chosen at the discretion of the BCS selection commitee.

Prior to this year, the BCS national championship(#1 team vs. #2 team) was played at on of the BCS bowls. Now there is a 5th bowl in the BCS, which is the BCS National Championship game. It, just as in the previous format, is played at one of the four bowl sites, but is a totally separate game in and of itself. The winner of this game is declared the BCS National Champion.

Answer 6

Ok first they take the top 5 teams and create a dart board. After a round robin tournement held between 3 randomly picked sports writers. The top 3 is chosen. Then the final game is decided by whomever teams's coach crys enough to get more attention. Then a bribe is placed and BAM! We crown the 2 champions. (unless there is a split in the Ap and coaches poll)

Answer 7

I agree with kenndo about the crying,first they have a crying contest between the coaches,the top ten are picked by the loudness and continuity of their crying,this year the top crying coaches were from Notre Dame and Michigan,unfortunately their teams were slaughtered before the championship game was even played

Answer 8

Texas Tech Red Raiders

Answer 9

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