AggieWill
04-22-2005, 01:51 PM
http://www.ajc.com/friday/content/epaper/editions/friday/sports_24861a3d45b4f1270089.html
Conference commissioners will hear proposals next week from two organizations hoping to replace The Associated Press poll in college football's controversial Bowl Championship Series formula.
The National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame, which compiles the BCS standings and releases them each week, and the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics will both make pitches at next week's BCS meetings in Phoenix.
The BCS is looking for a third component for its championship formula after the AP --- whose Top 25 counted for one-third of the formula, along with the coaches' poll and the computer rankings --- announced in December its poll was off-limits.
"We've got some options, and that's exactly what they are right now --- options," SEC commissioner Mike Slive said Thursday night from Phoenix. "Our goal is to make the process as good as it can be, and we'll listen to everybody who could potentially help us do that."
The National Football Foundation will propose that it put together a poll of about 70 former coaches and athletic administrators. Steve Hatchell, the new president of the NFF, said that unlike the AP poll, which begins in August, its poll would not begin until October.
Conference commissioners will hear proposals next week from two organizations hoping to replace The Associated Press poll in college football's controversial Bowl Championship Series formula.
The National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame, which compiles the BCS standings and releases them each week, and the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics will both make pitches at next week's BCS meetings in Phoenix.
The BCS is looking for a third component for its championship formula after the AP --- whose Top 25 counted for one-third of the formula, along with the coaches' poll and the computer rankings --- announced in December its poll was off-limits.
"We've got some options, and that's exactly what they are right now --- options," SEC commissioner Mike Slive said Thursday night from Phoenix. "Our goal is to make the process as good as it can be, and we'll listen to everybody who could potentially help us do that."
The National Football Foundation will propose that it put together a poll of about 70 former coaches and athletic administrators. Steve Hatchell, the new president of the NFF, said that unlike the AP poll, which begins in August, its poll would not begin until October.