Inside the Minds of the Men Who Invented the BCS, Changed NCAA
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stories South Carolina Athletic Department  The Bowl
Championship Series was in the first year of determining a No. 1
vs. No. 2 matchup for the national championship, and it looked
like it wasn't going to work.  Heading into the final week of
games in 1998, Tennessee, Kansas State and UCLA were all
undefeated, and if all three won, someone was going to get left
out.  A reporter and statistician named Jeff Sagarin, the math
whiz from MIT who helped come up with the strength-of-schedule
portion of the BCS formula, spilled the beans.   "If all three
win, Tennessee's out," Sagarin said by phone from his home in
Bloomington, Ind.  In Birmingham, Ala., Southeastern Conference
commissioner Roy Kramer and media relations director Charles
Bloom, the other two people mainly responsible for developing
the BCS formula, were aghast at Sagarin's lack of public
relations savvy.  "Roy called me and told m