he BCS Championship Game is the crowning glory of the collegiate NCAA Division I football season. Selected by the BCS Committee based upon a complicated formula, the winner of the game is crowned the national champion.
For Ohio State the past two BCS Championship games have been disappointments after taking early leads only to have Florida last year and LSU this year overtake and eventually walk away with the title.
How did they get there?
Since its inception, the concept of crowning the national championship without a playoff system has been the subject of contention.
For the curious, here are the rules:
To derive a team’s poll percentages in the Harris Interactive and USA Today polls, each team’s point total is divided by a maximum 2850 possible points in the Harris Interactive Poll and 1500 possible points in the USA Today Poll. Teams are assigned an inverse point total (25 for No. 1, 24 for No. 2, etc.) for each of their respective computer poll rankings to determine the overall computer component. The highest and lowest ranking for each team are dropped, and the sum total of the remaining four rankings is divided by 100 (the maximum possible points). This figure produces a Computer Rankings Percentage. The six computer ranking providers are Anderson & Hester, Richard Billingsley, Colley Matrix, Kenneth Massey, Jeff Sagarin and Peter Wolfe. Each computer ranking accounts for schedule strength within its formula. The BCS Average is calculated by averaging the percent totals of the Harris Interactive and USA Today Polls, and Computer rankings. The highest BCS Average receives the No. 1 ranking, the second highest receives No. 2, and so forth.
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