3-and-out

Sporting News, The, Dec 13, 2004 by Tim Brando

Florida's Urban renewal left egg on Notre Dame's face. Why fire Tyrone Willingham when you don't even have a Plan A, let alone a Plan B? The grim truth: N.D. is completely mismanaged. Affable A.D. Kevin White is merely a puppet on a string.

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The 2004 BCS disaster goes beyond Auburn going 12-0 without landing a spot in the Orange Bowl. It also impacts poor Cal, which now must watch Big East juggernaut Pittsburgh get a $14 million payday. BCS officials claim it's only about Nos. 1 and 2. Clearly, it's more than that.

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Auburn's perfect season and third-place finish in the BCS standings might trigger a change in philosophy of nonconference scheduling in the SEC. The computers, though not as powerful this year, illustrated that SEC teams' strength of schedule was woeful outside of their league.