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What to do? BCS formula needs overhaul
Commissioners looking at three potential strategies for latest fix


01:37 AM CST on Saturday, January 8, 2005

By KEITH WHITMIRE / The Dallas Morning News



GRAPEVINE – Tweak or trash: That's the issue facing the BCS in regard to its formula.

The 11 Division I-A conference commissioners met for five hours Friday at the Gaylord Texan to discuss how to handle The Associated Press' withdrawal from the BCS formula. The formula had been one-third AP poll, one-third coaches' poll and one-third the combined average of six computer rankings.

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After previous controversies, the BCS made minor fixes to its formula. This time, the BCS could drop the formula altogether and use a committee to select its teams for the Fiesta, Orange, Rose and Sugar bowls, including the national championship game.

BCS coordinator Kevin Weiberg, who is also the Big 12 commissioner, said the commissioners are looking at three possibilities:

Plug-and-play: Simply replace the AP poll by plugging in another one, such as the Football Writers Association of America poll, and continue with the same formula.

Committee approach: Form a committee to rank the teams. It would be a larger sample group than the NCAA Tournament selection committee and could issue published votes several times a season. In short, the BCS would create its own poll.

Hybrid: Use both a committee and a rankings formula. For example, the committee could select the Nos. 1 and 2 teams for the title game, then the formula would determine automatic qualification for teams from smaller conferences such as C-USA, Mountain West and WAC.

The current formula may not survive because the BCS will push for coaches to reveal at least their final regular-season ballots. The coaches have been resistant, but the USA Today/ESPN poll came under scrutiny when some abnormal votes were cast regarding Texas and California's competition for a Rose Bowl berth.

BCS representatives are scheduled to discuss the issue at the American Football Coaches Association convention next week in Louisville, Ky.

"My sense is the transparency issue is one of our most important ones," Weiberg said. "If coaches feel like they cannot reveal their final vote, it would put us in a position where we would have some level of discomfort about it going forward."

If a committee were to replace the formula, Weiberg said it would be unlike the small, secretive committee that chooses teams for the NCAA basketball tournament.

"It would be a broader number of people serving, with a much more public component to how people voted, and perhaps even votes that would occur on more than one basis through the course of a season," Weiberg said.

Unlike with the 65 NCAA Tournament selections, transparency is important because of the small number of teams vying for millions of dollars.

"To put a group in a room and select teams, there's a danger in that," WAC commissioner Karl Benson said.

The commissioners' next scheduled meeting is in April. Weiberg said he hopes to have a system announced by the summer.

Notre Dame is also a partner in the BCS, but athletic director Kevin White skipped the meeting to take part in a recruiting weekend.

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