The BCS offers a centralized information source where it aggressively promotes its agenda.  In contrast, most pro-reform thought is scattered around the Internet in countless op-eds and fan blog posts. College football will not change until reformers offer media outlets, government officials, and fans a centralized resource of pro-reform news and scholarship.  That’s why Playoff PAC has aggregated key documents below. Please check back often, as we will continually add to this “document hub.”

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SCHOLARSHIP
  1. Matthew Denhart & Richard Vedder, Intercollegiate Athletics Subsidies: A Regressive Tax, Center for College Affordability and Productivity (2010), http://bit.ly/bRW22a.
  2. B.F. Pair, C.S. Moore, & S.W. Dittmore, Paying for wins: An examination of football non-conference game scheduling by BCS schools, 1994-2009 (2010) (abstract presented at the 2010 College Sport Research Institute's Scholarly Conference on College Sport), http://bit.ly/cUjsb9.  
  3. Richard Evans, NCAA Bowl Finance: Something Changed in 1995, Econosseur Blog (2009), http://tiny.cc/phXEI.
  4. Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, A Primer on Money, Athletics, and Higher Education in the 21st Century (2009), http://bit.ly/9BQT4m.
  5. Andrew Zimbalist, The BCS, Antitrust and Public Policy, Working Paper (2009), http://tiny.cc/0mrKx.
  6. Devin G. Pope & Jaren C. Pope, The Impact of College Sports Success on the Quantity & Quality of Student Applications, 75 Southern Economic Journal 750-80 (2009), http://bit.ly/9T8m52.  
  7. John Colombo, The NCAA, Tax Exemption and College Athletics, Ill. Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 08-08 (Feb. 19, 2009), http://bit.ly/cTaRJG. 
  8. Susan Buchman & Joseph B. Kadane, Reweighting the Bowl Championship Series, J. of Quant. Analysis in Sports Vol 4: Iss. 3, Article 2 (2008), http://www.bepress.com/jqas/vol4/iss3/2/.
  9. Alfred D. Mathewson, By Education or Commerce: The Legal Basis for the Federal Regulation of the Economic Structure of Intercollegiate Athletics, 76 UKMC L. Rev. 597 (2008), http://bit.ly/d3C2Oo.
  10. Michael Dumond et al., An Economic Model of the College Football Recruiting Process, 9 J. of Sports Economics 1 (2008), http://bit.ly/978sfD.
  11. Noel Campbell et al., Evidence of TV Exposure Effect on AP Top 25 Rankings, J. of Sports Economics vol. 8 no. 4 (2007), http://bit.ly/dBuDeD. 
  12. Rodney Paul et al., Expectations and Voting in the NCAA Football Polls, J. of Sports Economics vol. 8 no. 4 (2007), http://bit.ly/djQhz5. 
  13. Jude D. Schmit, A Fresh Set of Downs? Why Recent Modifications to the Bowl Championship Series Still Draw a Flag Under the Sherman Act, 14 Sports Law J. 219 (2007), http://tiny.cc/zPUKZ.
  14. Timothy Smith, Profiles of Bowl Championship Series Bowl-Bound Teams from 1998 through 2004, The Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2006), http://gradworks.umi.com/14/32/1432698.html.
  15. Hal Stern, In Favor of a Quantitative Boycott of the Bowl Championship Series, 2 J. of Quant. Analysis in Sports (2006), http://bit.ly/aRszm2.    
  16. Kevin J. Rapp, Forced to Punt: How the Bowl Championship Series and the Intercollegiate Arms Race Negatively Impact the Policy Objectives of Title IX, 808 Ind. L.J. 1167 (2005), http://bit.ly/9eMSUS.
  17. C.D. McEvoy, The Relationship Between Dramatic Changes in Team Performance & Undergraduate Admissions Applications, The Smart Journal, 2, 17-24 (2005), http://bit.ly/95Y4Ej.
  18. John J. Seigfried & Molly G. Burba, The College Football Television Broadcast Cartel, 49 Antitrust Bull. 799 (2004), http://bit.ly/bRFKWM.
  19. Donald E. Agthe & R. Bruce Billings, The Role of Football Profits in Meeting Title IX Gender Equity Regulations and Policy, 14 J. of Sport Mgmt. 28 (2000), http://bit.ly/bFYwQT.      


GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS

  1. Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett, Letter to Arizona Attorney General Requesting Criminal Probe of BCS' Fiesta Bowl (July 16, 2010), http://bit.ly/dlyCHV.
  2. U.S. Dept. of Education, Equity in Athletics Data Analysis Tool (2010), http://www.ope.ed.gov/athletics/.
  3. Letter of Sens. Orrin Hatch and Max Baucus to BCS (requesting additional public disclosure from BCS) (Mar. 9, 2010), http://bit.ly/cyuFF2.  
  4. U.S. Dept. of Justice Letter to Senator Orrin Hatch (indicating that Justice Dept. is "exploring" BCS probe) (Jan. 29, 2010), http://bit.ly/bBO9O3.
  5. U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing, The Bowl Championship Series: Is It Fair and In Compliance with Antitrust Law? (July 7, 2009), http://tiny.cc/G5nHf.  
  6. U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce Hearing, The Bowl Championship Series: Money and Other Issues of Fairness for Publicly Financed Universities (May 1, 2009), http://tiny.cc/lSJ97.
  7. House Resolution 68 (sponsored by Rep. Neil Abercrombie), http://tiny.cc/pKdYE.
  8. College Football Playoff Act (sponsored by Rep. Joe Barton), http://tiny.cc/XxwSU.
  9. Championship Fairness Act of 2009 (sponsored by Rep. Gary Miller), http://tiny.cc/P6KdB.
  10. U.S. House of Representatives, Roll Call Vote Record for H.Res. 58 of 111th Congress (commending Florida Gators for winning 2009 BCS Championship Game), http://bit.ly/a6Jz2B.  
  11. U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce Hearing, Determining a Champion on the Field: A Comprehensive Review of the BCS and Post-Season College Football (Dec. 7, 2005), http://bit.ly/b85Adc.
  12. U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing, BCS or Bust: Competitive and Economic Effects of the Bowl Championship Series On and Off the Field (Oct. 29, 2003), http://bit.ly/bCrUU0.
  13. U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing, Antitrust Implications of the College Bowl Alliance (May 22, 1997), http://bit.ly/d2htuz.
  14. NCAA v. Board of Regents of Univ. of Okla., 488 U.S. 85 (1984), http://bit.ly/aQy0Cg.   

BCS BOWL TAX RECORDS

  1. Arizona Sports Foundation (Fiesta Bowl) 2008 IRS Form 990, http://bit.ly/9Sld8L.
  2. Arizona Sports Foundation (Fiesta Bowl) 2007 IRS Form 990, http://bit.ly/9IBoSN.  
  3. Arizona Sports Foundation (Fiesta Bowl) 2006 IRS Form 990, http://bit.ly/bNVVDT. 
  4. Arizona Sports Foundation (Fiesta Bowl) 2005 IRS Form 990, http://bit.ly/9NFnjL. 
  5. Arizona Sports Foundation (Fiesta Bowl) 2004 IRS Form 990, http://bit.ly/9GTUvW. 
  6. Orange Bowl Committee 2008 IRS Form 990, http://bit.ly/bblGGT.   
  7. Orange Bowl Committee 2007 IRS Form 990, http://bit.ly/9Px8T7.
  8. Orange Bowl Committee 2006 IRS Form 990, http://bit.ly/bUEwmO.
  9. Orange Bowl Committee 2005 IRS Form 990, http://bit.ly/d6FvO8.  
  10. Pasadena Tournament of Roses Fdn (Rose Bowl) 2008 IRS Form 990, http://bit.ly/c38QNC.  
  11. Pasadena Tournament of Roses Fdn (Rose Bowl) 2007 IRS Form 990, http://bit.ly/9PPPvo.
  12. Pasadena Tournament of Roses Fdn (Rose Bowl) 2006 IRS Form 990, http://bit.ly/aoYKoT.
  13. Pasadena Tournament of Roses Fdn (Rose Bowl) 2005 IRS Form 990, http://bit.ly/cLz90n.
  14. Pasadena Tournament of Roses Fdn (Rose Bowl) 2004 IRS Form 990, http://bit.ly/buWE5a. 
  15. Sugar Bowl Committee 2007 IRS Form 990, http://bit.ly/c55sED.  
  16. Sugar Bowl Committee 2006 IRS Form 990, http://bit.ly/d91R5m.   
  17. Sugar Bowl Committee 2005 IRS Form 990, http://bit.ly/bG59t7.  
  18. Sugar Bowl Committee 2004 IRS Form 990, http://bit.ly/biW4rb.  

BCS DOCUMENTS

  1. Bowl Championship Series, Media Guide (2010-2011), http://bit.ly/a7pPSf.
  2. Bowl Championship Series, Historical TV Ratings and Attendance (2010), http://bit.ly/dnEfQD.
  3. Bowl Championship Series, Media Guide (2009-2010), http://bit.ly/95uNiw.
  4. Sugar Bowl Agreement with Louisiana Stadium and Exposition District (2007), http://bit.ly/9LZlzQ.
  5. Arizona Sports & Tourism Authority-Fiesta Bowl Agreement for National Championship and Playoff Game Use (2005), http://bit.ly/aW71Ls.
  6. Rose Bowl-Tournament of Roses Association Agreement (2004), http://bit.ly/bcMdcI.  

PROMINENT PLAYOFF PROPOSALS
  1. The Wetzel Plan (16-team playoff), http://tiny.cc/StUZP.
  2. The Mountain West Conference Proposal (8-team playoff), http://tiny.cc/XOR6q.
  3. College Football Cafeteria's Playoff Plan (16-team playoff), http://bit.ly/8XCJVX.
  4. Bowl Playoff Championship Series Plan (8-team playoff), http://tiny.cc/ViBsj.
  5. Prather's Post-Season Plan (8-team playoff), http://bit.ly/b4Z7Gc.
  6. "Australian Rules" Playoff Proposal (8-team playoff), http://bit.ly/bWm8el.
  7. "Modified Season" Playoff Proposal (32-team playoff), http://bit.ly/97ag7q.
  8. Brian Cook's Post-Season Playoff (6-team playoff), http://bit.ly/aRClw1.
  9. Buckeye Battlecry's College Football Overhaul (8-team playoff), http://bit.ly/6NsHsc. 
  10. Talonk's Dream College Football World (12-team playoff), http://bit.ly/fjhkw. 

 
WEBSITES

  1. Tulane's Presidential Coalition for Athletics Reform, Archived Website and Documents, http://coalition.tulane.edu/.
  2. Bowl Championship Series 2009-2010 Media Guide, http://bit.ly/9tUM2u.  
  3. The National Championship Issue Blog, http://bit.ly/c8TtOB. 
  4. BCS Guru Blog, http://www.bcsguru.com.
  5. College Football Cafeteria Blog, http://www.collegefootballcafeteria.com.
  6. Bring the Bracket Blog, http://bringthebracket.blogspot.com.
  7. BCS Know-How Blog, http://www.bcsknowhow.com.  
  8. EDSBS, http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com.
  9. Dr. Saturday (Yahoo! Sports), http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/blog/dr_saturday.
  10. Sports Fan Coalition, http://www.sportsfanscoalition.org.
  11. CollegeBCS, http://www.collegebcs.com.

OPINION AND NEWS
  1. Alia Rau, Fiesta Bowl Campaign-Donation Claim Referred to A.G. Goddard, The Arizona Republic (July 17, 2010), http://bit.ly/9yp1qU.
  2. Dan Wetzel, Big 12 Blew It by Eschewing Playoff, Yahoo! Sports (June 6, 2010), http://bit.ly/ametsq.
  3. Andy Staples, BCS Formula Release Shows Conference Standings, SI.com (Apr. 23, 2010), http://bit.ly/9Az8OW.
  4. Matt Hinton, The Cult of the Bracket and College Football's Underdog Dilemma, Yahoo! Sports (Mar. 22, 2010), http://bit.ly/bjUhw9.
  5. Michael Beller and Graydon Gordian, BCS Reform Stymied by Monied Interests, Medill Reports (Mar. 12, 2010), http://bit.ly/940utJ.  
  6. Andy Staples, With Political Involvment Afoot, Prepare for Major BCS Change, SportsIllustrated.com (Feb. 1, 2010), http://bit.ly/bPP2SC.
  7. Jodi Upton, Big-Time College Athletics: Are They Worth the Big-Time Costs?, USA Today (Jan. 15, 2010), http://bit.ly/9UGN9D.  
  8. Michael Smirconish, Head Strong: A Law to Mandate College Football Playoffs?, Phila. Inquirer (Dec. 20, 2009), http://bit.ly/d60y6t.
  9. Craig Harris, Fiesta Bowl Employees Say Bowl Repaid Political Contributions, Ariz. Republic (Dec. 18, 2009), http://bit.ly/95pgaM.  
  10. Sally Jenkins, BCS One Step Ahead of Law--Until Now, Washington Post (Dec. 12, 2009), http://bit.ly/5iehzl.
  11. John Feinstein, Where Money Talks and Hypocrisy Walks, Washington Post (July 29, 2009), http://tiny.cc/D9xsp.
  12. Orrin Hatch, Leveling the Playing Field: The Case for Congressional Hearings into the BCS, Sports Illustrated (July 6, 2009), http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1157360/index.htm.
  13. Dan Wetzel and Josh Peter, Congress Seeks Truth on Bowls' Charitable Giving Claims, Yahoo! Sports (May 26, 2009), http://bit.ly/bhayf0.  
  14. Darren Rovell, College Football Playoffs: I'll Say They're Worth $160 Million a Year, CNBC (Jan. 9, 2008), http://bit.ly/bqrX2x.
  15. Dan Wetzel, The Bowl Boondoggle, Yahoo! Sports (Dec. 18, 2008), http://bit.ly/aa3rSd.    
  16. John Feinstein, Great College Football Season Still Marred by BCS, Washington Post (Oct. 10, 2007), http://tiny.cc/WCuKT.
  17. Chris Suellentromp, A College Football Playoff That Works, Slate (Oct. 24, 2000), http://bit.ly/b9rUky.  

OTHER SOURCES

  1. Alan Fishel, BCS Revenue Discrimination Chart (2010), http://bit.ly/aVIJKU.
  2. NCAA, Revenues and Expenses of Division I Intercollegiate Athletics Programs Report (2009), http://bit.ly/cl22kB.  
  3. Quinnipiac Univ. National Poll (2009), http://bit.ly/7oJUmS.  
  4. Sports Illustrated College Football Fan Survey (2009), http://bit.ly/2MKVSP.
  5. Scott Van Pelt, Bill Hancock Explains the BCS, ESPN Radio (radio interview with BCS Exec. Director Bill Hancock) (Dec. 9, 2009), http://bit.ly/aGtYBv. 
  6. Dan Patrick, New BCS Director Defends College Football System, SportsIllustrated.com (radio interview with BCS Exec. Director Bill Hancock) (Nov. 18, 2009), http://bit.ly/2ZssRA.
  7. NCAA, Bowl Championship Series Five-Year Summary of Revenue Distribution 2003-2008 (2008), http://bit.ly/cfLBDg.
  8. Gallup National Poll (2007), http://bit.ly/bNkxVJ.
  9. NCAA, Executive Summary of Blue Ribbon Commission Report on a College Football Playoff (1994), http://bit.ly/9hdn6A.  

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