A friend mailed me a couple of days ago. "Bob, what's this BCS thing that my son keeps talking about? I know it's some college football thing, but really, what is it?" Well, my son is apparently a bit more forthcoming than hers, so I asked him. "Dad, it's the NCAA trying to give the fans and players a true national championship game while keeping the major bowl sponsors in the money." Succinct, but the BCS system is a little more complicated than that. Here's how we used Word and Word Web App to highlight some interesting information on the BCS to date. We created this doc in Word and shared it on docs.com, which ties directly into Facebook. So you can check out the information, post it on your wall and start some good arguments, er, discussions,
Buy Office 2010, about the system (see my rant about Boise State at the end of this post). And the great thing about this way of sharing is that nobody needs to worry about which version of Word they have installed,
Microsoft Office Pro Plus, they can all see the doc in their browser. And if you upload your own documents, you can later update them in Word and then post them back up on Facebook. It's a sleek, streamlined way to share information. The first two pages explain what the BCS is designed to do and why. The third page shows this year's BCS bowl matchups and poses the question, "Has the BCS delivered what it set out to do?" As the doc argues, we do now have a national championship game,
microsoft Office 2010 Activation, the consensus top two teams in the country meet to determine who is the best college football team in the land; this year's contestants being two offensive powerhouses: #1 Auburn, with an average margin of victory of 18.2 points, against #2 Oregon, with an astounding 30.9 average margin of victory to go with their Nike designed uniforms,
Windows 7 License! Go Ducks! But the rest of the BCS bowls leave something to be desired, and that something is the conspicuous absence of #10 Boise State,
microsoft Office 2010 License, a team that was in the top three for all but the last two weeks of the season and in fact being undefeated for the last three seasons until their loss to Nevada on 11/26, being excluded while unranked Connecticut gets to play #7 Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl. What's up with that? -- Bob deLaubenfels <div