http://bcschampionshipgame.blogdrive.com/ BCS Tue, 25 Apr 2006 12:55:00 PDT http://www.blogdrive.com Copyright 2006. http://bcschampionshipgame.blogdrive.com/archive/3.html Tue, 25 Apr 2006 20:45:24 GMT PHOENIX (AP) — For eight years, the Bowl Championship Series has created as much confusion as clarity. And one year after it worked perfectly, with two unbeaten teams squaring off in a classic championship game, the BCS is changing again. And its top official wonders if fans will understand why. "Just the fundamental format, I think, needs explanation," Southeastern Conference commissioner Mike Slive said as the BCS' annual meetings opened here Monday. The BCS is expanding to five games next year, with a new stand-alone national title game being added to the existing four bowls — the... (more) http://bcschampionshipgame.blogdrive.com/comments?id=3 http://bcschampionshipgame.blogdrive.com/archive/2.html Tue, 25 Apr 2006 20:41:25 GMT Phoenix — The BCS calls it "double-hosting." The Fiesta Bowl, whose organization will be the first to implement it, simply calls it "a challenge." College football fans, who are just now hearing about it, are going to call it a lot of things, the kindest of which may be "confusing." The BCS has faced a number of challenges since its inception in 1998 but one of the biggest will take place in the next few months. That's when officials must sell the public on the new model, which increases the number of BCS games from four to five, and puts two of those... (more) http://bcschampionshipgame.blogdrive.com/comments?id=2 http://bcschampionshipgame.blogdrive.com/archive/1.html Tue, 25 Apr 2006 20:37:58 GMT BCS Coordinator Mike Slive's Statements from BCS meetings in Phoenix. Explaining the "double-hosting" model "One of the things we need to be doing over the next several months is to explain the double hosting model, which is in effect the National Championship Game rotating among the four BCS bowls every year. There will be a Rose Bowl, Orange Bowl, Sugar Bowl and Fiesta Bowl and once in a four year period, one of the sites will serve as host for the National Championship Game a week after its traditional bowl." "The National Championship Game is 1 vs. 2 as determined by the polls after... (more) http://bcschampionshipgame.blogdrive.com/comments?id=1