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    BCS vs. Playoff System Essay

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    benefit that bowl games offer schools, the issue of wheatear to replace the Bowl Championship Series with a playoff system continues to be one of the most discussed aspects of college football. Most people agree the Bowl Championship Series should be replaced by a playoffs, however there are a few who believe otherwise. The Bowl Championship Series works, and college football has never been more successful, thrilling, popular, or more enjoyable than ever. The Bowl Championship Series is fairer, safer

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    Student athletes entertain fans at their local resident arena, which generated five million and six hundred thousand dollars in ticket sell in 2012 (National College Athletic Association). This is not fair to student athletes that are solely responsibility for contributing to these financial statistics. Student athletes are leaders in the classrooms and on the field. Student athletes uphold the standards requirement by the NCAA to maintain their eligible to play sports. As leader on the field

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    Art Briles Case Study

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    It's a crazy world that we live in. So crazy, in fact, that even when a coach turns a blind eye while a massive sexual assault scandal implodes the very program he helped turn into a national powerhouse, is still considered one of the premiere coaching candidates in college football. Art Briles, the soon-to-be 61-year old former Baylor Head Coach is looking for work. His entire life, both playing and coaching has been spent in the state of Texas, dating back to his playing days from 1974-1977 for

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    raise or promotion. The College Football Playoffs (CFP) decides the best college football team in the nation and declares an outright National Champion. The #4 Ohio State Buckeyes were crowned National Champions of the first ever College Football Playoffs and almost did not even get into the playoff. Even though there is a better system in place than the Bowl Championship Series, the CFP has imperfections. The playoff should be expanded to 8 teams to give a better idea of who the best team in the nation

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    programs. At least three-college football teams; Michigan, Florida, and Notre Dame, are each worth more than the NFL's Detroit Lions. Today, networks and cable channels pay hundreds of millions of dollars for the right to televise college football games. NCAA basketball, which has its wildly popular March Madness, is currently in the middle of a contract that pays almost $2 billion.

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    that question a little better. Cinderella stories are constantly arising and are one of the reasons sports are so enjoyable. It is important to conduct this research because it needs to be brought to people’s attention that sports are more than just a game with a winner and a loser. Sports are stories that are told through action. Sports introduce us to cinderella stories who make our experience that much more enjoyable. Cinderella stories are a huge part of the athletic world and they deserve so much

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    called it Championship Thursday because we were fighting to win a national title in Myrtle Beach. As I arrived at the field for our first game which was the first game of bracket play. Yesterday was pool play. We played 6 pool play games and won them all so that put us in the number one seed. That’s mean we had a pretty easy game ahead of us. As the day continued we one 2 more. We had a little break after the third game. Next game was what we were all dreaming of, the national championship game. It

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    to winning games. When a stat is moderately correlated, that means it relates to winning. Using a scatter plot, a graph that gives a visual of whether or not a stat is correlated, correlation coefficients were found for each stat. The correlation coefficient is a decimal that shows if a set of numbers is moderately correlated. After finding stats that were the closest to being moderately correlated, a metric was put together that used the best stats to determine which teams will win games. The stat

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    Zac Hayes Monologue

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    warped wolves are down by one point. This is the national Championship tournament final. Zac Hayes comes to the home (start). Zac is the snake back and he is a tall lad. He tells the whole team what we’re going to do. I am charlie and I play back centre for the warped wolves. Zac and I have been best friends since primary. Everybody loves us and we are successful in school. Now back to the final. Zac tells us, “This game is the most important game of our lives and we need to show that, Next thing

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    Trends In College Sports

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    Rutgers—Trending: Down Despite winning their first conference game of the season by 23, Rutgers still remains on the down trend. While they avoided joining Boston College as the only Power-5 schools to go winless in conference play, Rutgers still had a season to forget. They enter the Big Ten tournament as the 14 seed with very little chance of winning any games in the tournament. Minnesota—Trending: Down A bad season gets worse for Minnesota as they lost by 25 points to Rutgers on Saturday. To

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