BCS Buster Power Rankings: 2012 Week 2 Rankings

You may (or may not) have been wondering where the BCS  Buster Power Rankings were last week. Let’s just say my life was as disheveled as the BCS Buster landscape as the new week began, and both needed a few days to settle out. So we’re picking up this year’s first regular-season installment after the second week, after teams have had time to shake out the cobwebs and there is enough data to start honestly comparing the contenders... Read More

BCS Buster Power Rankings: 2012 Preseason Preview

This will be the third year that we’ve followed the trials and tribulations of teams outside the power structure trying to burst through onto the big stage. It might very well also be the penultimate opportunity we have to track them, at least in the terms that have been dictated over the past decade by the Bowl Championship Series. But a Buster by any name will be just as sweet, no matter what the future landscape of the college football postseason... Read More

BCS Buster Power Rankings: 2011 Week 5 Rankings

The weekly Power Rankings have expanded this week to include teams that probably have absolutely no chance at the BCS… but definitely include some that should, even with a loss. Just fifteen undefeated teams remain out of the ten dozen that comprise the top division of college football, and with that number due to dwindle throughout the season as conference battles take their toll it isn’t unthinkable that we have a season like 2007 where... Read More

BCS Buster Power Rankings: 2011 Week 4 Rankings

We came into Week 4 last season much like we did this year, with a half-dozen non-AQ schools still alive in the BCS hunt and hoping to enter conference play without any black marks against them. We emerge out of Week 4 this year with half the teams that survived into the second trimester of the season in 2010. Some of these losses we expected, given the step up in competition that several of the remaining six were taking. Last year Fresno State and... Read More

BCS Buster Power Rankings: 2011 Week 3 Rankings

Sometimes it isn’t always going to be impressive. But it has to at least be a victory when all is said and done, or there is absolutely no chance for a non-AQ school to vault up to the next level and claim a BCS berth. Strong results in defeat count for naught when it comes to mid-majors breaking into the VIP suites. Since the advent of the BCS in 1998, there have been just 31 undefeated regular seasons posted by all teams in the Bowl Subdivision... Read More

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