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USA TODAY Sports’ Jordan Mendoza explains what makes the SEC so dominant in men’s college basketball.
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Bill Hancock stopped himself before saying never.
He still considers the Bowl Championship Series to be “a brilliant mathematical system,” even though it’s remembered today as another lukewarm attempt at improving college football’s postseason.
There were no meetings and no deliberation like the College Football Playoff or NCAA Tournament selection committees conduct now. The way the BCS worked at its most granular level as recently as a decade ago, according to Hancock, is he would receive emails each week containing the computer rankings that constituted one portion of the BCS.
The former BCS executive director would then send those figures to a neutral entity to be compiled along with the national polls and strength of schedule components that made up the remainder of the formula to determine the sport’s national championship game beginning in 1999 through the start of the CFP ahead of the 2014 season.
And Hancock, who retired last month after serving as the CFP executive director since its inception, never wants college football to use something like that again.
“It lost favor quickly, and what it was missing was the human element,” he said. “I was going to say I don’t ever see the loss of the human element, but I’ve been following what’s been happening with the Big Ten and SEC. I think it would only go back if people forget their history.”
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