Fox faces BCS contract challenges

December 28, 2007 In the 10-year history of college football's BCS system, no season has ever been marked by as much rankings disruption or controversy. Fox, which on New Year's Day will air the first of its four-game BCS package with the Sugar Bowl, is entering the second year of its bold plan to try to turn the college football postseason into a franchise as big as the NFL playoffs or March Madness. In the end, a team with a national following, the Ohio State Buckeyes, ended up in the Jan. 7 championship game in New Orleans against LSU, another school with a storied history and the first two-loss team in BCS history to play for the title.

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