The surprising Kansas Jayhawks achieved the unexpected again Thursday — they won the Orange Bowl with defense. While their high-powered offense was stymied most of the night, the Jayhawks came up with three interceptions and beat Virginia Tech 24-21 in the Orange Bowl to cap one of the finest seasons in school history.
Quarterback Pat White led the West Virginia Mountaineers to a surprising 48-28 romp over No. 3 Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl on Wednesday night.
For the second time in eight months, Michigan lured a coach out of West Virginia.
A week later than it wanted, Kansas beat Missouri. An Orange Bowl bid is the surprising Jayhawks' reward.
Missouri and West Virginia have one more step to take before bumping into each other in New Orleans. The Tigers and Mountaineers hold the top two spots in the Bowl Championship Series standings released Sunday with a week left in a topsy-turvy regular season.
Pat White has No. 4 West Virginia on the brink of playing for a national championship. White rushed for 186 yards and accounted for three touchdowns to lead the Mountaineers to a 66-21 win over No. 20 Connecticut on Saturday night, clinching the Big East championship and a spot in the Bowl Championship Series.
The Bowl Championship Series will expand the pool of teams eligible for at-large bids if it's faced with a shortage of qualified contenders when the season is over.
With three weeks left to decide which teams will play for the national title, it's Oregon against the Big 12 in a BCS battle. LSU moved into the first place in the Bowl Championship Series standings Sunday and the Ducks jumped into second place, a day after Ohio State was upset by Illinois.
DeMarco Murray provided the style points for Oklahoma as the Sooners made their argument to move up in the Bowl Championship Series rankings.
While Boston College gained some cushion on third-place LSU in the Bowl Championship Series standings and Ohio State held firm to first place, Arizona State moved into position to make a big stretch run.
Coming off its first bowl victory, this was supposed to be the year that Rutgers took the next step and went to a Bowl Championship Series event.
Ohio State has been here before, leading the Bowl Championship Series standings. For second-place South Florida, it's another breakthrough in a season full of them.
Colt Brennan's injured right ankle was healthy enough to lead a thrilling comeback that resuscitated any hopes Hawaii might have had at a Bowl Championship Series bid.
The Bowl Championship Series broke in favor of Florida, sending Urban Meyer's Gators to the national championship game to play Ohio State.
Michigan or Florida? One will play Ohio State in the BCS championship game. The other will be ticked off at the maddeningly imperfect system used to crown a major college football champion. One thing's for sure, a Saturday stunner shook up the Bowl Championship Series and made selection Sunday a whole lot more interesting.
Southern California's dejected players trudged off the Rose Bowl field, oblivious to the celebration going on around them. Their national championship hopes had just ended with the biggest upset of the season.
Welcome to the national championship hunt, Louisville. Brian Brohm threw for 354 yards and a touchdown, and the fifth-ranked Cardinals took advantage of key mistakes by No. 3 West Virginia for an impressive 44-34 victory Thursday night that could give them an inside track to the Bowl Championship Series title game.
For those who enjoy BCS chaos, the fun starts now. Southern California's loss to Oregon State was the first and most significant step toward giving the Bowl Championship Series an impossible task of putting together a title game that will satisfy everybody.
Let the countdown begin to what could be the biggest Ohio State-Michigan game ever. The Buckeyes and Wolverines, along with Southern California, topped the first Bowl Championship Series standings released Sunday, putting the Big Ten powers and the Trojans in control of the national title race.
The NCAA approved four new bowls Thursday, including a fifth Bowl Championship Series game in Glendale, Ariz., which will host the national championship Jan. 8.
The Big Ten just is not looking like a BCS conference right now.
Fed up with the BCS? Don't lose hope yet...We may not be moving to a playoff, but we are at least taking a step in the right direction with the +1 format.
College Football: Oklahoma, Missouri, West Virginia, Pittsburgh, LSU, Georgia, Tennessee and ... Rutgers and Princeton? Where'd these last two come from?
A playoff is used to determine the football champion in Division I-AA, Division II and Division III, and also every other sport sanctioned by the NCAA. But not in NCAA Division I-A football.
The annual football game between the Kansas Jayhawks and the Missouri Tigers, to be played Friday night, taps into a mutual animosity born of a flashpoint in American history.
Anyways, the computers don't like OU's schedule too much, but apparently loves Kansas and South Florida, so I did some figuring. I found out what the ranking was of the opponents of OU, Kansas, and S. Florida and averaged them out and here are the results:
It's easy to be overwhelmed by American college football's ever-expanding postseason. At the rate they keep tossing new games into the mix by 2025 the bowl population will be bigger than Bowling Green Kentucky.
Discussion on remateches of big college football games after the Ohio State vs. Michigan game.
If a basketball coach had been in charge, Louisville might have had a chance at the end.
The Florida Gators will be the No. 3 team in the country in this week's BCS rankings. If the BCS isn't enough of an embarrassment, the notion that Florida is the third-best team in the country is not just embarrassing -- it's appalling.
NORMAN, Okla. -- The idea of a college football playoff system is growing on Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops, particularly as he sees teams benefiting from what he perceives as weaker schedules.