• Post-season declaration of a "National Champion".
• Bowl-game selection committees, when considering changes to future conference commitments and when selecting at-large teams would like to select teams to satisfy a number of criteria: maximize attendance and fan interest; maximize competitiveness (keeping the game competitive to the end leads to higher advertiser interest and thus higher media rates in the 3rd and 4th quarters..)
• Fair, unbiased and well understood ranking systems.

• We have our own ranking system found here

NCAA Division I Football Programs