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
Merger Madness
When Conference USA commissioner Britton Banowsky and Mountain West commissioner Craig Thompson announced last fall that their two conferences were in discussions to merge football operations by 2013 in hopes of attaining a lucrative BCS automatic qualifying bid for their member institutions, it was ostensibly a move to stave the bleeding of its best and brightest. By the time the two conferences announced the day before Valentine’s Day that... Read More
BCS Buster Power Rankings: Ranking the 2011-12 Non-AQ Bowls
Bowl season is upon us, and for the first time since 2005 we lack a BCS Buster playing in one of the five marquee contests. TCU’s opportunity passed immediately, when they were unable to complete their comeback against Baylor after allowing eventual Heisman winner Robert Griffin III to engineer 50 points on their traditionally-stout defense and lost the season opener. Southern Miss lost to Marshall, and then UAB, both indefensible defeats that... Read More
BCS Buster Power Rankings: 2011 Pre-Bowl Rankings
And sadness descended upon the column, its very reason for existence put into question as the cartel won this installment. But we soldier on, knowing that while this year’s battle may be lost, the war rages on and Busters will live to fight another day. For the first time in six years, the college football regular season ends without a non-AQ conference invoking the auto-bid stipulations and Busting into the BCS party. It was a dark weekend... Read More
