DECEMBER 2, 2009 - The Bowl
Championship Series (BCS) has announced, as a reminder to all media representatives, that this Sunday's BCS release time for games through December 5, 2009 will be released at 8:00 p.m. ET. This will be the final BCS Standings release.
The official announcement will be made on Fox, while a national press release will be sent via The National Football Foundation.
For your convenience, the schedule for the remaining BCS releases is listed below.
BCS RELEASE DATE -- APPROX. RELEASE TIME
- December 6 (Final BCS Standings release) -- 8:00 p.m. ET
The Harris Interactive Poll, USA Today Coaches Poll and computer rankings each comprise 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 1475 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.
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