Speculation swirls on BCS championship scenarios

Picture this: A nail-biter of a BCS title game Monday night comes down to a long field goal attempt by Alabama’s Cade Foster. The snap is down, the kick is away and it’s good. Confetti guns spray the Superdome as the Crimson Tide beats LSU by a point to win college football’s national championship. Right? Maybe not. Despite its 120 schools, its corporate sponsors, its rabid fans and monster TV contracts worth billions of dollars, one thing that major college football does not have is a clean way of crowning a champion. Because the bowl system is so lucrative and popular—in a made-for-TV sense—the schools at the highest level of the sport have eschewed a season-ending tournament in favor of a single game between the two teams generally believed to be the best in the country. Many of the 14 years the BCS system has been in place, it has produced a winner most in the college football world could live with. But there’s always a chance for a bug in the system and a split national title—like this year, when many voters for the AP Top 25 say they are not absolutely committed to picking the winner of the BCS finale. Read the full story from The Associated Press here.