The Worst Form of Championship, Except for All of the Others that Have Been Tried: Analyzing the Potential Anti-Trust Vulnerability of the Bowl Championship Series

The article discusses the U.S. college football Bowl Championship Series (BCS) as of September 2012, focusing on the potential anti-trust implications of the National Collegiate Athletic Association\u27s (NCAA) BCS system of individual bowl games, as well as several calls for the NCAA to implement a traditional playoff system for determining a national champion. The possibility of a successful Sherman Anti-Trust Act lawsuit against the NCAA is also addressed

BCS Or Just BS: How College Football Could Crown The Wrong National Champion? Just Do The Math - Correctly!

The 2009 college football season is here, but there has been a continuing controversy swirling over how the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) selects its national champion.  College football uses a multi-criterion decision matrix (MCDM) evaluation technique to determine which two teams will play for the national championship. We analyzed the BCS method of evaluating which teams play for the national. We found that Texas should have been ranked ahead of Oklahoma.  We conclude that BCS utilizes a mathematically flawed evaluation method to decide which two teams will play each year in the national championship game.  Just do the math--correctly

The Bowl Championship Series, Conference Realignment and the Major College Football Oligopoly: Revolution Not Reform

The legality of the Bowl Championship Series under the federal antitrust laws has been the subject of much scholarly commentary and Congressional inquiry. The results have been mixed but the majority view seems to be that the BCS passes muster under the Sherman Act. Most of the commentary has examined the application of Section 1 with only passing attention to Section 2. This article makes three points. First, it argues that the focus on the BCS has obscured the attention to a broader set of economic issues relating to the structure of the major college football industry. The Bowl Championship Series and its relationship to the Football Bowl Subdivision of the NCAA has obscured focus on the development of major college football as an oligopoly in which the firms are athletic conferences. The industry is dominated by the BCS automatic qualifying conferences which have engaged in conference expansion and realignments to strengthen their dominance over the industry. Second, the article acknowledges that the regulation of oligopolies has been problematic under the antitrust laws but explores whether the major college football oligopoly may present an appropriate case for regulation as a cartel under section 1 or perhaps as a shared monopoly under section 2. In exploring the application of the Sherman Act to the major football conference oligopoly, this article draws upon themes and analyses in European Community competition law. Unlike the traditional oligopoly, the industry conference members not only engage in parallel conduct but are linked by explicit agreements such as the BCS and NCAA Bylaws on conference structure and amateurism rules. Finally, assuming a strong case can be made for the application of the Sherman Act to the oligopoly, this article discusses whether traditional antitrust remedies are feasible. Accordingly, this article reluctantly considers the propriety of granting the NCAA a limited exemption from the antitrust laws to permit it to regulate the economic structure of intercollegiate athletics while concomitantly subjecting it to oversight by the Department of Education. This article thus calls for revolution not reform

Index: Sports Law in Law Reviews and Journals

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A Call to Action: Reconnecting College Sports and Higher Education

Revisits the findings of a series of reports on the state of college athletics and evaluates progress made in the intervening ten years, finding that the NCAA has moved a long way toward achieving the goals laid out in the commission's earlier reports

The New Hampshire, Vol. 105, No. 26 (Feb. 4, 2016)

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire

Sports, Inc. Volume 3, Issue 1

The ILR Cornell Sports Business Society magazine is a semester publication titled Sports, Inc. This publication serves as a space for our membership to publish and feature in-depth research and well-thought out ideas to advance the world of sport. The magazine can be found in the Office of Student Services and is distributed to alumni who come visit us on campus. Issues are reproduced here with permission of the ILR Cornell Sports Business Society.https://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/sportsinc/1003/thumbnail.jp

November 30, 2017

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The Cowl - v.82 - n.4 - Sep 28, 2017

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Volume 82, Number 4 - September 28, 2017. 24 pages

Spartan Daily, November 29, 2001

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