Bowl Championship Series

College Football's Fleecing of American Universities

How insiders use the bowl system to loot the colleges that support it.

Friday-Morning Follow-Ups

This old photo of the Texas Theatre was among a stack of unsold pictures being auctioned off yesterday.​To begin the day, some housekeeping ...A happy ending to yesterday's story about the kidnapping of Eileen Loskot: She was found dehydrated but otherwise unharmed in New Mexico, and one of the th ... More >>

Cuban Reads Book Making the Case Against BCS, Then Decides to Do Something About It

​I was coming back from an interview last week when I heard Mark Cuban on with Bob and Dan talking about a book he's reading: Death to the BCS: The Definitive Case Against the Bowl Championship Series by Dan Wetzel, Josh Peter and Jeff Passan. In the book, the reporters write that the only reason ... More >>

Screw Baseball, Mark Cuban Wants to Own College Football

​College football's biggest division is popular, yet ultimately broken. The latest example - one that hits close to home - is TCU having a 12-0 record yet 0 chance of winning a national championship. Every year the BCS attempts to pair the two best teams against each other in the title g ... More >>

Undefeated TCU, with the best college football program in Texas, doesn't get a chance to win a national championship. Now why is that again?

TCU BCS = WTF?!

​TCU is by far the best college football team in Texas. The Horned Frogs could have easily won the Big 12 this season. TCU, in fact, can beat any team in the country. But even with the best defense in the country, TCU is defenseless against the BCS. With another week of results from coll ... More >>

BCS Playoffs: Round 1

​With our alternative to the BCS offered up, nothing else to do than to let it play out. Food expert/football junkie Dave Faries, take it away ... Given its record in other matters, it's unlikely Congress can solve the BCS mess and put in place a viable playoff system. And it's very clear the ... More >>

TCU = BCS. WTF?!

TCU? And this guy? In the BCS? Yep.​Don't look now, but there's finally a legit BCS buster. And, even more surprising, the team is right here in our own backyard. Are you ready for TCU in the BCS? For years Gary Patterson's Horned Frogs have been a power, but just not quite strong ... More >>

Smokey Joe Barton Clearly Doesn't Have Enough to Worry About

Best. House Energy and Commerce Committee Meeting. Ever. From this morning in D.C.: "The Bowl Championship Series: Money and Other Issues of Fairness for Publicly Financed Universities." Smokey Joe Barton of Arlington wants to ditch the BCS and go to a college-football playoff system, and he's got t ... More >>

Texas v. Ohio State: The Siesta Bowl

Was watching the Cotton Bowl with some buddies on lower Greenville when Ole Miss sacked Texas Tech quarterback Graham Harrell for a game-clinching safety. While most of the joint emitted a primal scream, spiked their red-n-black hats, or ordered another mind-numbing shot, one dude sat and ... More >>

Bowling for Morning Items

Some random notes with which to start your final day of winter vacay. Last night I briefly toyed with the idea of attending the final Cotton Bowl to be held at the actual Cotton Bowl, but an anticipated record crowd of 88,175 -- what you get when you combine a sell-out with expanded seating -- makes ... More >>

Come On, Joe Barton's Just Blowing More Smoke About the BCS, Right?

A Friend of Unfair Park wonders why I haven't mentioned anything about Rep. Smokey Joe Barton's decision to introduce a bill to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce that calls for the eradication of the Bowl Championship Series. Um ... because I thought he was joking? What's that? He's serious ... More >>

Texas Tech v. Ole Miss. One Last Cotton Pickin' Time

So, you jazzed about the old Cotton Bowl's final matchup? The Only Team To Beat Florida vs. The Only Team To Beat Texas. Maybe it's just me, but I'm intrigued by Mississippi vs. Texas Tech.

Local Offensive Geniuses June Jones and Todd Dodge are Flunking Defense 101

A Thankless Job|The Smell Test|High Cotton

BREAKING SOON-TO-BE NEWS: Minor League Professional Football Coming to Dallas

Picking Cotton

Texas-OU is great and all, but what about the Cotton Bowl's other 51 Saturdays a year?

BREAKING NEWS: T. Boone Pickens Tours Cotton Bowl, Considers Tech-OSU in Big D

Breaking News: Park Board Approves Selling Naming Rights to Cotton Bowl

This Just In: Dallas Moving to Arlington.

Another Cool Sporting Event You Won’t See in the City of Dallas

Exclusive, Must Credit to Unfair Park: Cotton Bowl May Host Some Other Bowl in 2010

Mayor Tom's Going to the Super Bowl! (Just Not the Game, Apparently.)

Cotton Bowl: Goodbye, Dallas. Hello, Palace.

Like it or not, relocation is the right Cotton-pickin' decision.

SMU and June Jones: They're Both Back From the Dead

Cotton Pickin’ Crazy

Two Big Holidays Tomorrow. Well ...

Manolo Blahnik's Feet Hurt

Darrell Jordan Says Cotton Bowl's Moving Because of City's "Failure of Leadership and Vision"

Cotton Pickin' Ign'rnt

Cotton Goes to Arlington

Out With the Old

With the Cotton Bowl's inevitable departure, Dallas dies a little more

Cotton Bowl Tix as Valuable as Pocket Lint

Desmond, um, Tutu?

The Biggest Loser

Indian Summerall

Wherein Corby Davidson Goes to the Cotton Bowl and Takes a Wee-Wee

The Cotton Bowl Ain't No Kyle Field

The Cotton Bowl Parade Returns. Not Exactly.

Ode to a Cotton-Pickin' Good Idea

Cotton Comes to Dallas (Well, Stays, Actually)

Hog...Wild?

Air Apparent?

After three years of Tuna, it's time for a Leach

Cotton Bowel | G.I. Jerkoff | Weed Snobs

Fair-Well

OU-Texas soon to be one of Dallas' exes

Old School

Cotton Bowl Classic is football's Edsel

Can't Go Home Again

Plus: Busted; Inside Track

Evel Still Prevails

But his only trick is not dropping the pen

Pickin' Cotton

While Dallas fools around with the Olympics, the Cotton Bowl crumbles

Not as dome as you think

Dallas attorney Darrell Jordan wants to cover the Cotton Bowl--anyone got $150 million to spare?