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
A Tale of Two Conferences
Fifty years ago, two conferences emerged on the Division I college football scene. One’s tumultuous birth led to the demise of two other conferences, leaving former partners in the lurch as the landscape shuffled. The other rippled far less, a conference chartered over a decade previously merely moving into a new sports realm with its core membership of seven schools. One conference blazed brightly, a series of its teams succeeding wildly beyond... Read More
College Football Conference Rankings: 2011 Week 2
So we’ve now got twice the sample size, and it is starting to appear like the universe is shaking itself back into order after a weird first week that saw things flipped around from the norm. But things are still a little out of whack, though there are extenuating circumstances that mitigate that reality. Take for instance the case of the non-AQ conferences, the leagues loaded with schools chasing BCS Buster dreams. The battle... Read More
College Football Conference Rankings: 2011 Week 1
The first weekend of the college football season is now officially behind us, with just one more in-conference ACC matchup to play. Thus it’s time to plug the numbers into the system once again to see which conference comes out on top. A quick disclaimer for those who are new to the College Football Conference Rankings: For purposes of non-conference BCS games, Notre Dame is counted among the BCS schools due to personal entry qualification... Read More
