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Death to the BCS : The Definitive Case Against the Bowl Championship Series by Josh Peter, Dan Wetzel and Jeff Passan (2010, Hardcover)

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A team of award-winning sports reporters takes down the Great Satan of college sports: the Bowl Championship Series. Every college sport picks its champion by a postseason tournament, except for one: Division I-A football. Instead of a tournament, fans are subjected to the Bowl Championship Series, an arcane mix of polling and mathematical rankings that results in just two teams playing for the championship. It is, without a doubt, the most hated institution in all of sports. A recent "Sports Illustrated" poll found that more than 90 percent of sports fans oppose the BCS, yet this system has remained in place for more than a decade. Built upon top-notch investigative reporting, "Death to the BCS" at last reveals the truth about this monstrous entity and offers a simple solution for fixing it. "Death to the BCS" includes findings from interviews with power players, as well as research into federal tax records, Congressional testimony, and private contracts, revealing: ?The truth behind the "Cartel"-the anonymous suits who run the BCS and who profit handsomely by protecting it ?The flawed math and corruption that determine which teams participate in the national championship ?How the system hurts competition by perpetuating "cupcake" schedules ?How "mid-major" teams are systematically denied a chance to play for the championship ?How a comprehensive sixteen-team playoff plan can solve the problem while enhancing profitability The first book to lay out the unseemly inner workings of the BCS in full detail, "Death to the BCS" is a rousing manifesto for bringing fairness back to one of our most beloved sports.

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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1592405703
ISBN-13
9781592405701
eBay Product ID (ePID)
81838109

Product Key Features

Book Title
Death to the Bcs : the Definitive Case Against the Bowl Championship Series
Author
Jeff Passan, Dan Wetzel, Josh Peter
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Football
Publication Year
2010
Genre
Sports & Recreation
Number of Pages
208 Pages

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Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5.8in
Item Weight
12.3 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Gv959.W47 2010
Grade from
Twelfth Grade
Copyright Date
2010
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2010-029575
Dewey Decimal
796.332/63
Dewey Edition
22

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by mpl1996Mar 08, 2013
A Must-Read for College Football Fans.
Anyone who argued for a FBS playoff for Division I college football will enjoy this book. Dan, Jeff, Josh have put together a great argument as to why the BCS is a corrupt cartel and how a playoff system is not just better, but also more profitable for college football. Anyone who believes that the BCS is good for college football will find out in this book that it is a veritable Ponzi scheme meant to benefit the Big 6 conferences (and their members) and trick the mid-major and minor conferences into thinking they have a chance to "make it big". It's very informative and easy to understand.
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by kO3AV43jQnO@Del...Dec 15, 2010
Death to theBCS
First off I love the book. It tells a lot of the truths about the BCS and bowl system in general that never gets made public. Its a must have for any college football fan!

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