Since the 2000 regular season, the BCS Standings have been compiled by the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame.

The Standings include three components: USA Today Coaches Poll, Harris Interactive College Football Poll and an average of six computer rankings. Each component components counts as one-third toward a team's overall BCS score.

All three components get added together and averaged for a team's ranking in the BCS Standings. The team with the highest average ranks first in the BCS Standings. The BCS Standings is used for:

1. Selecting the teams that will participate in the national championship game.

2. Determining any other automatic qualifiers; and,

3. Establishing the pool of eligible teams for an at-large selection.

Polls

In the Harris Interactive College Football Poll and USA Today Coaches Poll, a team is evaluated on the number of voting points it receives in each poll. A team's Harris Interactive score is its points in the poll divided by its total possible voting points (if 114 voters, then 2850=114 x 25). The same formula applies to the USA Today Coaches poll and its total voting points (if 63 voters, then 1575=63 x 25).

The number of actual voters, which varies, is figured into the equation on a weekly basis in stating each team's percentage of a possible perfect score.

Computer Rankings

Six different computer rankings are used. Points are assigned in inverse order of ranking from 1-25. A team's highest and lowest computer ranking is then discarded in calculating its computer rankings average. The four remaining computer scores are averaged and the total is calculated as a percentage of 100.