Death to the BCS: Totally Revised and Updated: The Definitive Case Against the Bowl Championship Series

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With all-new reporting, a completely revised and updated second edition of the bestseller that takes down the Great Satan of college sports: the Bowl Championship Series (BCS).

Every college sport picks its champion by a postseason tournament, except for one: Divsiion I-A football. Instead of a tournament, fans are subjected to the Bowl Championship Series, an arcane mix of polling and mathematical rankings that results in just two teams playing for the championship. It is, ...

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Overview

With all-new reporting, a completely revised and updated second edition of the bestseller that takes down the Great Satan of college sports: the Bowl Championship Series (BCS).

Every college sport picks its champion by a postseason tournament, except for one: Divsiion I-A football. Instead of a tournament, fans are subjected to the Bowl Championship Series, an arcane mix of polling and mathematical rankings that results in just two teams playing for the championship. It is, without a doubt, the most hated institution in all of sports. A recent Sports Illustrated poll found that more than 90% of sports fans oppose the BCS, yet this system has remained in place for more than a decade.

Building upon top-notch investigative reporting, Wetzel, Peter, and Passan at last reveal the truth about this monstrous entity and offer a simple solution for fixing it. Death to the BCS: Totally Revised and Updated is brought up to date to cover the 2010-2011 season, listing which teams were screwed by the BCS (such as TCU), how much money college football left on the table by not having a playoff (based on 2011 tax filings), and how the calls for the abolition of the BCS grew even louder this past year. The book also includes findings from interviews with power players, as well as research into federal tax records, congressional testimony, and private contracts. The first book to lay out the unseemly inner workings of the BCS in full detail, Death to the BCS is a rousing manifesto for bringing fairness back to one of our most beloved sports.

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Editorial Reviews

-Time
"The most thoroughly researched, reasoned and readable argument to date for college football reform."
-Brian Frederick
"The plan put forward by Wetzel, Peter and Passan is certainly the strongest BCS-alternative to date. It is imperative that other sports journalists, college administrators and football fans read Death to the BCS."
-Nando DiFino
"Alternately brilliant and scary. You will put the book down sweaty, angry and wishing you could do something to change the system."
-Chris Dufresne
"The book accurately and diligently points out what people have known for years: The BCS is fundamentally flawed, at times a joke, and very controversial."
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781592406869
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • Publication date: 10/13/2011
  • Pages: 208
  • Sales rank: 531,978
  • Product dimensions: 5.70 (w) x 8.54 (h) x 0.97 (d)

Meet the Author

Dan Wetzel, Josh Peter and Jeff Passan write for Yahoo! Sports, the most read sports site on the Web. Wetzel has coauthored four books, including the New York Times bestseller Resilience: Faith, Focus, Triumph with Alonzo Mourning, and lives in Michigan. Peter is an award-winning, Pulitzer Prize-nominated investigative journalist who has earned national attention for his reporting on the Bowl Championship Series. He lives in Los Angeles. Passan has won multiple Associated Press sports editors' awards and lives in Kansas.

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  • Posted November 3, 2011

    this book is the reason we need a playoff system in CFB

    as soon as i read the preface i thought to myself, " man this is going to be good" and believe you me, it was the best read i have read in a great reading while. i could not put it down especially when they started talking about the money these greedy guys make and who is all involved in the process of picking #1 and #2 teams. it makes perfect sense why the BCS does not want a playoff system. its the only book i could find that talks about the BCS as well. a must read for any CFB fan or my name isnt orville redenbacher....wait...its not......its razorback_fan

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  • Posted February 1, 2011

    Well researched, good read.

    This book will throw a lot of big numbers, incomes, and expense accounts at you right away, and it's almost too overwhelming. But later in the book gets in to different situations in the past where a playoff system could have made a difference. Aside from all the dollar figures thrown at you during the first 4 chapters it's really nothing most people didn't already know. I will say if you are already not a fan of the BCS this book will only fuel your anger even more.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 20, 2012

    Persuasive

    Tells in detail why NCAA Division 1 football needs a playoff like every other college sport. Authors are blunt-spoken, but the facts they lay out show why they need to be.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 18, 2011

    Yes!!!!

    I was on the fence about the BCS, then I bought this book. It is such a true book and I think everyone who reads this will agree the BCS is a corrupt system that needs to be replaced with a playoff.

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  • Posted July 11, 2011

    Must Read..Outstanding

    Excellent view and supporting facts around the BCS and college football bowls

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted December 15, 2010

    2 thumbs down

    Really hated the way this book was written.Reminded me of political propaganda,every other paragraph seemed to start with the phrase "they want you to believe".Too radical,not a good way to rally support for a cause.

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  • Posted December 21, 2010

    it looks good

    it looks good

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  • Posted October 14, 2010

    Death to BCS: Life for December Delirium

    This book will be the catalyst for the revolution necessary to fix the absurd, corrupt BCS system, and to prosecute its 'fat cat suits'. They are robbing college football of the "December Delirium" (a legitimate playoff) that the teams and fans deserve.

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