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Pressure-packed regular season one of the benefits of BCS

Updated: May 21, 2008, 8:46 AM ET
By Ivan Maisel | ESPN.com

My hair is graying, and I've got a disk in my back that looks at my golf bag and laughs. I've got a 10th-grader who's learning how to drive and a fifth-grader who wants to know when she's getting a cell phone. You want to talk aging?

All of those symptoms are fixable (and the answer on the cell phone is still no). But when I sit and think about why I not only can live with the BCS but that I want to, I realize that the reason is simple maturity.

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The BCS at 10

With 10 years of college football's life under the Bowl Championship Series in the books, ESPN.com takes a look back at the BCS decade. We'll tackle everything this week from the memorable games, plays and teams to the BCS vs. playoff debate to the possible landscape in 2018.

Monday
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• Low: Best BCS bowl games
• Miller: Best BCS bowl performances

SportsNation
• Rank 'em: Best BCS bowl games
• Rank 'em: Best BCS bowl performances
• Chat wrap: Chris Low Insider
• Chat wrap Ted Miller Insider

Tuesday
• Maisel: Say yes to the BCS
• Forde: Say no to the BCS
• Miller: Biggest BCS bowl slights

SportsNation
• Rank 'em: Biggest BCS bowl slights
• Chat wrap: Ivan Maisel Insider
• Chat wrap: Pat Forde Insider

Wednesday
• Schlabach: Ranking the BCS champions
• Schlabach: Defining coaches of the BCS era
• Rittenberg: Memorable BCS bowl coaching moves

SportsNation
• Rank 'em: Which BCS champion is the best?
• Rank 'em: Which coach defines the era?
• Chat wrap: Adam Rittenberg Insider
• Chat wrap: Mark Schlabach Insider

Thursday
Conference Breakdowns
ACC
Dinich: ACC has been a dud in BCS era
Big 12
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Big East
Schlabach: Big East thriving in BCS
Big Ten
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Pac-10
Miller: USC dominates Pac-10 in BCS era
SEC
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Indies/Non-BCS
Rittenberg: No complaints from South Bend

SportsNation
• Chat wrap: Tim Griffin Insider

Friday
• Schlabach: The future is now
• Griffin: Defining players of the BCS decade
• Dinich: Memorable BCS bowl moments

SportsNation
• Rank 'em: Defining players of the BCS era?
• Rank 'em: Memorable BCS bowl moment?
• Chat: Heather Dinich, 2 ET

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