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BCS: 50 Years

John Swain writing for CERN Courier describes the book as a wonderful review of a powerful unifying concept which covers an enormous range of phenomena.


1998 Alamo Bowl

Kansas State would finish ranked #6 in the BCS the following season, only to be left out of the BCS once again.

2005 NCAA Division I-A football season

The 2005 NCAA Division I-A football season ended with the least amount of controversy surrounding the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) title game in many years.

The BCS saw good fortune as two teams, the USC Trojans and the Texas Longhorns, went wire to wire as #1 and #2, respectively—the second year in a row that had happened—and finished as Division I-A's only undefeated teams after the regular season.

2006–07 NCAA football bowl games

The University of Southern California Trojans returned to the Rose Bowl Game presented by citi in the first BCS game of 2007 on New Year's Day in Pasadena, California.

2008 Atlantic Coast Conference football season

As a Bowl Championship Series (BCS) conference, the ACC's constituent members competed within the framework of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS).

2009 Pacific-10 Conference football season

October 31, 2009 – The Halloween match-up between USC (BCS No. 5) and Oregon (BCS No. 10) could determine the conference champion.

2010–11 NCAA football bowl games

In non-BCS games, Kraft Foods took over as sponsor of the former Emerald Bowl at AT&T Park and renamed it the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl, which will benefit food banks and Feeding America under a three-year contract.

2011 Mountain West Conference football season

They finished the year as the highest ranked non-automatic qualifying school in the BCS rankings to receive an automatic bid to a BCS game.

2012 BCS National Championship Game

This game was the first time in the 14-year history of the BCS that the National Championship Game featured two teams from the same conference, let alone the same division (similar to what happened in the 2011 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament six months prior, featuring two teams from the SEC, although that match-up came about through a playoff).

Adrian Klemm

Following the 2010 season, Klemm was named the top non-BCS AQ Recruiter in the nation by Rivals.com, and was further recognized by the outlet as one of the top 25 recruiters in the country overall.

AJ McCarron

Following the 2013 BCS National Championship Game against Notre Dame, McCarron became the first quarterback to win back-to-back consensus national championships in the BCS era.

Aligarh Institute of Technology

Sir Syed University of Engineering & Technology accorded affiliation to 3 year degree programme in Computer Science and BCS classes were started in April 1998.

Barrett Jones

Even with the injury, in the BCS Championship game 4 weeks later, Jones earned praise for handling Notre Dame nose tackle Louis Nix III mostly by himself, giving left guard Chance Warmack the freedom to maneuver downfield to block Fighting Irish linebackers for Eddie Lacy and T. J. Yeldon.

BCS-FACS

The group celebrated its 20th anniversary with a meeting at the Royal Society in London in 1998, with presentations by four eminent computer scientists, Mike Gordon, Tony Hoare, Robin Milner and Gordon Plotkin, all Fellows of the Royal Society.

Bottom 10

This spot is reserved for "the top BCS blunder of the week" – a normally strong football team which found itself on the wrong end of an upset the prior week; an example would be the September 7, 2011 Bottom 10, which featured Oregon State at the #5 ranking after its upset loss to Sacramento State, a Division I FCS program that had previously never beaten an FBS team in its history.

Camacho Cigars

Camacho Cigars signed a three-year deal with the Orange Bowl and the NCAA for the 2012-2014 Orange Bowl games and the 2013 BCS National Championship.

CAP computer

R.Needham was awarded a BCS Technical Award in 1978 for the CAP (Capability Protection) Project.

Crime Survey for England and Wales

Lord de Mauley has said the BCS omits rape, assault, drug offences, fraud, forgery, crime against businesses and murder, while accepting that it "is accepted as a gold standard by most British academics and internationally".

Dan Wetzel

Dan Wetzel is a passionate opponent of the BCS system for determining the NCAA Division I FBS National Football Championship.

Frank Steglich

by electron-electron interactions, rather than the electron-phonon interaction that is responsible for conventional BCS superconductivity.

Jill Dann

BCS Women is a specialist group for networking and sharing knowledge amongst women computing professionals.

John Stocco

With hopes of a Rose Bowl invitation, the Badgers collapsed down the stretch, ending the season with two losses to fall out of BCS contention.

John Vaughn

Twice during the season he completed four field goals in a single game — in wins against Washington State and the eventual BCS Champion Florida Gators.

José Roberto Espinosa

He also participated commenting NBA (80's-2004), NHL (1997–98 and 1998-99 seasons) and College Football ( BCS ) games while in TV Azteca, as well as the opening and closing ceremonies for the Olympic Games from Seoul 1988, Barcelona 1992, Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000 and Winter Olympics from Nagano 1998 and Salt Lake 2002.

League of Christian Socialists

In its manifesto of principles called "God, Thyself, Thy neighbour", the BCS took the second commandment of Christ from the Gospel of Matthew, "Thou shall love thy neighbour like thyself", as its leading principle.

Marc Kestecher

He calls games for the NBA on ESPN Radio, NFL on ESPN Radio, and BCS on ESPN Radio and provides hosting duties for NBA on ESPN Radio, MLB on ESPN Radio and ESPN Radio SportsCenter.

Pearl River Community College

Three former Wildcat players are currently in the NFL, including San Diego Charger wide receiver Demetrius Byrd (who also won the 2008 BCS National Championship with the LSU Tigers after playing for PRCC), Washington Redskin defensive linemen Cornelius Griffin, and Oakland Raider defensive back Hiram Eugene.

Scottish Westminster constituencies 1950 to 1955

In Scotland, where boundaries had been unaltered since 1918, the legislation defined 32 burgh constituencies (BCs) and 39 county constituencies (CCs), with each electing one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

Skip Bertman

The Tigers won the 2003 BCS championship under coach Nick Saban.

Teddy Bridgewater

As a sophomore in 2012 he started 11 of 12 regular season games, his only non-starting action coming off the bench while injured against Rutgers to lead his team to a win, a Big East title and a berth to the BCS.

Vizio

On October 19, 2010, GreenDane signed a 4-year contract to sponsor college football's annual Rose Bowl game in Pasadena, California, beginning with the 2011 Rose Bowl presented by Vizio and ending with the 2014 Vizio BCS National Championship Game.

Zach Boren

The 2012 Ohio State squad, for whom Boren was a captain, would have been eligible for a Bowl Championship Series (BCS) Bowl, possibly even the national championship, but due to sanctions levied against them by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) were not bowl-eligible.


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