In its first year of existence, the Bowl Championship Series is causing quite a stir.

With its confusing calculations and mystifying formulas, everyone is trying to figure out the latest answer to the national championship debate. But you can get all the information you need right here until the Fiesta Bowl pairing is announced.

From the latest poll to analysis by some of the nation's top college football writers, CBS SportsLine is the place to go for everything on the BCS.

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Dodd: Buckeyes' fall leaves three-team race (Nov. 7, 1998) Ohio State did Kansas State, Tennessee and UCLA a huge favor Saturday. The Buckeyes' loss to Michigan State leaves those three teams as the legitimate national championship contenders.

Dodd: Coaches, writers will have their say (Nov. 2, 1998) Despite all the BCS hoopla, the old standbys known as the AP and coaches polls still have a great impact on the national title chase. That's why UCLA falls to No. 3 in the BCS, one spot removed from a Fiesta Bowl bid.

Miech: Toledo won't run up score for poll's sake (Nov. 2, 1998) The UCLA Bruins escaped with a victory Saturday, but couldn't escape the math of the BCS poll. But coach Bob Toledo is more concerned with the reasons the Bruins have struggled recently than a two-position drop in the poll.

Kahn: BCS poll, what's the point? (Oct. 27, 1998) If the top 16 teams in the BCS rankings are the same as the other two major polls, then it proves there's no point to any of this.

Dodd: When Sagarin rates teams, people listen (Oct. 23, 1998) Jeff Sagarin combined his love of mathematics and sports to create the Sagarin college football ratings in 1972. Since then, his system has been used as an indicator of the strengths and weaknesses of college football's top teams. And now his ratings are a major component of the new BCS system.