The tyranny of the BCS, plus Ekpe Udoh's big night for Baylor

Field preparation continues the day before Texas is to play Alabama in the BCS Championship NCAA college football game at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010.

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College football's championship game arrives tonight. While most of the focus is on the Alabama-Texas matchup, there's quite a few people wading into the spotlight to talk about the tyranny of the BCS system.

We'll start today's college links with voices from the anti-BCS camp.

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BCS brings up a perennial complaint:Â college football as big business, writes George Will in the Washington Post.
The BCS is "like communism,"Â one congressman tells Jim Litke of The Associated Press.Â
Coaching bullies sully the game of college football. Gwen Knapp, San Francisco Chronicle.
Despite its bowl success, Evan Grant of the Dallas Morning NewsÂ takes some shots at the Big Ten.
Once facing a broken dream,Â Texas assistant now heir to Longhorns throne, writes Andy Staples at SI.com.

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