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Playoff PAC's blog features only thoughtful, quality work that helps advance the public dialogue on college football reform. We cover current events, spotlight pro-reform articles around the Internet, and provide original content about the BCS's failures and the path to reform. We will resume regular posts in mid-August 2010.

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09.02.10		Playoff PAC Releases New Ad, "It's Fixed" Press Release

09.01.10		Set in Stone Before the First Snap: Empirical Analysis Proves that Pre-Season Reputation Is Prerequisite to BCS Berths The BCS likes to say that “at the beginning of the season, every bowl subdivision team starts out with an equal chance to become national champion.” However, an empirical analysis of BCS berths undermines this position: history proves that any team not at the very top of the preseason ranking has virtually no chance to go to the BCS Title Game.

08.30.10		Recap of the Off-Season Before the 2010 season officially kicks off and brings its own new happenings, we here at Playoff PAC thought a look back at 2010’s off-season months would be worthwhile.

07.19.10		PlayoffPAC Statement on Ariz. Sec. of State's Request for Criminal Probe of Fiesta Bowl

06.09.10		Federal Trade Commission, Justice Dept. Discuss the BCS The nation’s chief antitrust regulators will not hold the BCS to a lower standard because it is centered on a game.

05.28.10		Non-AQs Get Less Because They Prefer It That Way? The funding disparity has nothing to do with non-AQs voluntarily bargaining away their share. The BCS just gives non-AQs less money without justification—it’s that simple.

05.25.10		Supreme Court Strengthens Antitrust Case against the BCS An opposite ruling from the High Court today in the American Needle case could have granted the BCS a wholesale exemption from the Sherman Act.

04.29.10		Matching the Top Two Teams? The BCS repeatedly boasts that it “has delivered a match-up between the two top teams every year.” This claim should be viewed with some skepticism.

04.22.10		Hatch-Baucus Letter Leads to New BCS Disclosure The BCS’s latest disclosure is hopefully just the start. Playoff PAC expects that further pressure from high places will cause the BCS to disclose even more about its opaque operation.

04.15.10		The Beebe Rule: Watering-Down Eligibility Standards "Winning" is no longer necessary for bowl berths. "Deserving" is enough under new NCAA rules.