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Three human polls and one formulaic ranking make up the 2008 NCAA Division I FBS (Football Bowl Subdivision) football rankings, in addition to various publications' preseason polls. Unlike most sports, college football's governing body, the NCAA, does not bestow a National Championship title. That title is bestowed by one or more of four different polling agencies. There are two main weekly. The perfect gift for football recruiting fans! Give a Rivals gift subscription this holiday season Give a gift subscription. BCS standings as a tiebreaker: The BCS standings were created for the sole purpose of matching up the top two-ranked teams to play for the BCS title. Yet, by the mid-2000s, conferences began using. Take a look: The BCS Rankings would've produced a different Top-4 than the College Football Playoff Committee announced on Sunday afternoon.

Here are the current BCS Rankings standings for 2008. In the BCS 2008 Rankings, the second place standing has been a fight between Alabama Crimson Tide and Penn State Nittany Lions with the Texas Longhorns leading the pack.

The new BCS Rankings for week 10 will be Sunday. But here are the rankings so far for week 9.

RANK TEAM BCS AVERAGE

1 Texas .998
2 Alabama .950
3 Penn State .926
4 Oklahoma .827
5 USC .782
6 Georgia .770
7 Texas Tech .743
8 Florida .730
9 Oklahoma State .675
10 Utah .670
11 Boise State .636
12 Ohio State .537
13 TCU .506
14 Missouri .475
15 Florida State .338

**** UPDATE ****

LALATE NEWS has the new rankings just released late today, November 2, 2008. Here they are:

1 Alabama 0.974
2 Texas Tech 0.937
3 Penn State 0.928
4 Texas 0.853
5 Florida 0.826
6 Oklahoma 0.822
7 Southern Cal 0.755
8 Utah 0.697
9 Oklahoma St. 0.666
10 Boise St. 0.699
11 Ohio St. 0.555
12 Texas Christian 0.544
13 Georgia 0.536
14 Missouri 0.492
15 Brigham Young 0.373
16 LSU 0.371
17 Ball St. 0.356
18 Michigan St. 0.336
19 North Carolina 0.263
20 Georgia Tech 0.188
21 California 0.112
22 Florida St. 0.087
23 Maryland 0.082
24 Northwestern 0.081
25 West Virginia 0.080

*** UPDATE 2 – November 23, 2008 ***

For the new BCS Rankings out as of November 23, 2008, CLICK HERE

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Bcs Rankings 2008

To derive a team’s poll percentages in the Harris Interactive and USA Today polls, each team’s point total is divided by a maximum 2850 possible points in the Harris Interactive Poll and 1525 possible points in the USA Today Poll. Teams are assigned an inverse point total (25 for No. 1, 24 for No. 2, etc.) for each of their respective computer poll rankings to determine the overall computer component. The highest and lowest ranking for each team is dropped, and the sum total of the remaining four rankings is divided by 100 (the maximum possible points). This figure produces a Computer Rankings Percentage. The six computer ranking providers are Anderson & Hester, Richard Billingsley, Colley Matrix, Kenneth Massey, Jeff Sagarin and Peter Wolfe. Each computer ranking accounts for schedule strength within its formula. The BCS Average is calculated by averaging the percent totals of the Harris Interactive and USA Today Polls, and Computer rankings. The highest BCS Average receives the No. 1 ranking, the second highest receives No. 2, and so forth.

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The BCS is a five-game arrangement for post-season college football that is managed by the 11 Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division I-A) conferences and Notre Dame. Its purpose is to match the two top-ranked teams in the final BCS standings in a national championship game and to create competitive match-ups in the four other BCS bowl games. The No. 1 and No. 2 teams in the Dec. 7 BCS standings will play in the FedEx BCS National Championship Game Jan. 8, 2009, in Miami, FL. The winner of the game will be presented the American Football Coaches Association National Championship Trophy. For more information, visithttp://www.bcsfootball.org.