bcs Stories - Team Speed Kills
The Super Bowl is Not an Argument Against Playoffs
For the second time in five years team that went 9-7 in the NFL regular season made the Super Bowl. This time, that 9-7 team actually won the thing. It's enough to make a die hard college football fan scoff at the pro league's standards for who gets to be called champion. Before going further, it's...
A Playoff Is Coming
If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times: the SEC has won the current BCS system. After Auburn got left out of the title game 2004, SEC partisans relentlessly pushed the idea that it was ludicrous to exclude the champion from the nation's best conference if it was one of the worthy...
Some AP Voters Laying Groundwork for Split National Title
Whichever team wins the BCS National Championship Game will win the BCS championship and the crystal football that goes with it. The winner technically is receiving the Coaches' Trophy, which goes along with finishing first in the Coaches' Poll. While individual coach voters have bucked the rule on...
Use Statistics Responsibly When Discussing Alabama and Oklahoma State
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." -Andrew Lang I finally have begun getting into the massive college football data dump from last summer both to try to discover new things and judge whether the methods I currently tend to use are indeed...
Happy New Year
I sat down to look at the TSK stats for 2011 in Google Analytics today, and it was jaw dropping. Before doing anything else, I want to thank all of you who come here an make it a site worth writing for and visiting. The growth we experienced here was remarkable. Team Speed Kills debuted in April of...
Alabama No. 2 in Coaches' Poll; Harris Poll Likely Deciding Vote
The new Coaches' Poll is out, and Alabama is the No. 2 team by a slim margin. Bama has 1399 points to Oklahoma State's 1367 points. I'm going to make a couple of assumptions here about the rest of the BCS standings: LSU is the unanimous No. 1 team still. Alabama is second in two computer polls and...
BCS Debate Feels Backwards, Is Unique
Two things before we get into this. First, Yahoo! Sports' Dan Wetzel makes a good point. We tried to prevent this mess from happening. Mike Slive proposed a plus one format a couple years ago with the ACC's support, and the rest of the BCS conferences shot it down. We could be talking right now...
Road to the BCS Championship, Week 14
Full speed ahead. After LSU beat Arkansas on Friday and Alabama beat Auburn on Saturday, it appears we're just about all set for a rematch of the two. I'll get to more on that later, but it looks fairly secure. After all, what are the other options? Oklahoma State still lost to Iowa State after...
Road to the BCS Championship, Week 13
Help us Obi Wan Ken-Hokie. You're our only hope. Those folks who are opposed to a rematch on principle need a hero, and that hero looks like the main course you're statistically likely to have for dinner on Thursday. Yes, Virginia, there is a potential one-loss AQ conference champion that didn't...
Executive Director Sorry That The BCS Played Role In Conference Realignment
BCS executive director Bill Hancock is sorry that chasing membership in automatic qualifying conferences was a concern driving conference realignment. He says that a goal of the next BCS agreement (the current one runs out after the 2013 season) will be to provide conference stability. I would...
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