Death to the BCS: The Definitive Case Against the Bowl Championship Series: Totally Revised and Updated 2011 Edition

In 2010, Dan Wetzel, Josh Peter, and Jeff Passan impassioned college football fans against the Bowl Championship Series with an investigative look at the scams and power grabs that keep the system in place. This 2011 edition of Death to the BCS goes even deeper into the system, revealing new scandals, new hypocrisies, and new reasons to hate the worst national championship system in history.

After more than three years of digging through tax records, bowl contracts, university documents, and interviews with college football's power players, Wetzel, Peter, and Passan have unearthed all the reasons the BCS remains solidly in place- and all the reasons we should get rid of it. They expose how bowl games swindle millions from taxpayers and universities while giving wasteful athletic directors five-figure bonuses. They explain the illogic behind the arcane polls and computer rankings that choose which twenty-five teams compete. And they reveal the anonymous band of "suits" who profit quietly off this foolish and outdated system and fight for the continued existence of the BCS in the face of widespread disgust and superior options.

With a new prologue, two additional chapters, and more than 15,000 words of fresh reporting, Death to the BCS supplies even more reasons we should abandon the nonsensical system. It reports on the new scandals that have rocked college football- including both the 2009 suspension of Georgia Bulldogs wide receiver A. J. Green and the 2010 Fiesta Bowl financial disaster- and provides a blow-by-blow account of the full 2010 season.

Death to the BCS reinvigorates the old argument against the BCS with new evidence and pulls back the curtain on the inner workings of college sports' most despised postseason.