TECH CHANNEL WILL CROWN A CHAMPION.Byline: - Tom Hoffarth What the Bowl Championship Series' computers refuse to do, the ones at G4tech TV are all booted up to try. Using the EA Sports ``NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association Football 2005'' video game on Xbox, the cable channel will play out an NCAA college football national championship tournament using the six teams that went undefeated this past regular season. Harvard, unbeaten in the Ivy League Ivy League Group of eight universities in the northeastern U.S., high in academic and social prestige, that are members of an athletic conference for intercollegiate gridiron football dating to the 1870s. , is included with USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. , Oklahoma, Auburn, Utah and Boise State. To fill out the eight-team bracket, one-loss Cal and Texas were added. ``It's only fair that the six undefeated teams have an opportunity to go head-to-head in a single-elimination tournament A single-elimination tournament, also called a knockout or sudden death tournament, is a type of tournament where the loser of each match is immediately eliminated from winning the championship or first prize in the event. ,'' said Charles Hirschhorn, the founder and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of G4techTV, and a Harvard alum. This tournament starts Monday with top-seed USC against eighth-seed Harvard and fourth-seeded Cal against fifth-seeded Texas. Sixth-seeded Utah meets third-seed Auburn and second-seeded Oklahoma faces seventh-seed Boise State on Tuesday. The semifinals are Wednesday and Thursday, with the one-game championship on Friday, Dec. 17. The results air during the network's ``Screen Savers'' show Monday through Friday at 4 p.m. and are posted on the website (www.g4techtv.com). |
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