2008 BOWL CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES STANDINGS for OCT. 26(Week 1)

Click here to view the Short Form BCS Standings for Oct. 26, 2008 (pdf format)

Click here to view the Long Form BCS Standings for Oct. 26, 2008(pdf format)

POLL EXPLANATION & ABOUT THE BCS:

The Harris Interactive Poll, USA Today Coaches Poll and computer rankings each comprises one-third of the BCS Standings. To derive the three percentages, each team is assigned an inverse point total (25 for No. 1, 24 for No. 2, etc.) The two poll percentages are calculated by dividing each team’s point total by a maximum 2850 possible points (Harris) and 1525 possible points (USA Today). The computer rankings percentage is calculated by dropping the highest and lowest ranking for each team and then dividing the remaining total by 100 (the maximum possible points). The BCS Average is calculated by averaging the percentage totals of the Harris Interactive Poll, USA Today Poll, and computer rankings. The teams’ BCS Averages are ranked to produce the BCS Standings. The six computer ranking providers are Anderson & Hester, Richard Billingsley, Colley Matrix, Kenneth Massey, Jeff Sagarin and Peter Wolfe. Each computer ranking provider accounts for schedule strength within its formula.

The BCS is a five-game arrangement for post-season college football that is managed by the 11 Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division I-A) conferences and Notre Dame. Its purpose is to match the two top-ranked teams in the final BCS standings in a national championship game and to create competitive match-ups in the four other BCS bowl games. For more information, visit www.bcsfootball.org.

The No. 1 and No. 2 teams in the Dec. 7 BCS standings will play in the FedEx BCS National Championship Game Jan. 8, 2009 in Miami, Fla. The winner of the game will be presented the American Football Coaches Association National Championship Trophy.


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