Caio Soares
John Hamilton
ABSTRACT
The Bowl Championship Series (BCS) is the system used to select the top two college football teams to play in a championship game at the end of a season. During the nine seasons played under the BCS, few have not caused considerable debate and controversy. We believe that an analysis of the BCS and its components is therefore required. This work uses a GRNN to model the eight polls that compose the ranking system of the BCS. Then, a genetic algorithm (GA) is used to evolve season schedules that would perform poorly under the current BCS. These difficult seasons are then analyzed to highlight weaknesses in the current model.
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