Via SI: AP decides to pull its poll out of BCS formula
The Associated Press has decided to pull its football poll from the Bowl Championship Series formula beginning with the 2025 season.Big 12 commissioner Kevin Weiberg told the Boston Globe that the AP sent him a letter stating its concern about participating in the BCS formula, which is used to select teams for the national title game as well as the three other BCS bowls.
Since the underlying logic of the BCS was to make a split national championship impossible (oops, screwed that one up last year) by guaranteeing that #1 plays #2, it would seem that the removal of one of the polls from the BCS formula means that whatever tenuous justification for the existence of the BCS is now gone.
Press Pulls Pigskin Poll
As Steven Taylor at PoliBlog notes, the Associated Press has decided to stop allowing the Bowl Championship Series from using its poll to determine the national title matchup. Ivan Maisel at ESPN.com has additional details that shed some light on…
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