If the BCS was released today...(College Football Season Week 3)

[digiram]

Originally posted by: KK
Boston College shouldn't be 10 over PSU.

BC gonna go undefeated, and still not be considered a NC team.

 

[sciencewhiz]

Here is the best teams as ranked by the BCS Computers

1 LSU
2 Florida
3 Texas
4 Ohio State
5 Southern California
6 Boston College
7 Alabama
8 Wisconsin
9 South Carolina
10 Kentucky
11 California
12 Cincinnati
13 Air Force
14 Oregon
15 West Virginia

Oklahoma, despite being 4th in the polls, is 20th in the computers. They must not be impressed with wins over 0-2 North Texas, 0-3 Utah St, and a Miami team who's only wins have been against teams in the bottom 10% of Div-1A.

Also, PSU is ranked 34th and Rutgers 32 by the computers.

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: sciencewhiz
Here is the best teams as ranked by the BCS Computers

1 LSU
2 Florida
3 Texas
4 Ohio State
5 Southern California
6 Boston College
7 Alabama
8 Wisconsin
9 South Carolina
10 Kentucky
11 California
12 Cincinnati
13 Air Force
14 Oregon
15 West Virginia

Hah...half of the top ten are SEC schools. That will end soon though as they begin to knock each other off.

 

[hdeck]

Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy
LOL @ Hawaii being ranked. Raping D-II schools and pathetic non-football D-I schools is no reason to be ranked.

But hey, they'll go undefeated like Utah did a few years ago and gripe about not making it to a BCS bowl...

:laugh:

utah made it to the fiesta bowl that year😉

 

[preslove]

Originally posted by: hdeck

Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy
LOL @ Hawaii being ranked. Raping D-II schools and pathetic non-football D-I schools is no reason to be ranked.

But hey, they'll go undefeated like Utah did a few years ago and gripe about not making it to a BCS bowl...

:laugh:

utah made it to the fiesta bowl that year😉

If Hawaii wins out they will deserve a BCS bowl more than whichever crappy Big-10 school manages win that slow-poke conference.

 

[CPA]

Originally posted by: Balt
I think it's gonna be LSU and OU in the NC. OU's schedule is soft but that will probably prevent them from losing any games (unless they lose to Texas) whereas I think USC will probably drop one and UF will probably lose to LSU.

No one else even has a chance of going undefeated, imo. Ohio State isn't very strong this year, and I've got very little respect for Big East teams like West Virginia.

Very little respect for a conference that was 5-0 in Bowl games last year, has 4 teams in the BCS 25 (with South Florida looming just on the outside) and has shut the trap of every college football "expert" out there? :roll:

 

[sciencewhiz]

Originally posted by: Queasy
Hah...half of the top ten are SEC schools. That will end soon though as they begin to knock each other off.

They will fall, but not necessarily for the reason you state. The BCS computers are much more forgiving about losing to a high ranked opponent then the polls are. LSU and Kentucky are in the top 10 because they broke with SEC tradition and scheduled good out of conference games. Florida, Alabama, and South Carolina are high because they started their conference schedule before most teams did, and got a good opponent early. As other teams get into their conference schedules and those teams play the patsies they scheduled later in the season, they will fall.

 

[chuckywang]

My wet dream is for the no. 1 team as determined by the human rankings to be no. 3 when the BCS rankings are released.

SCREW HUMAN VOTERS! COMPUTER RANKINGS FTW!!!

 

[kalster]

Originally posted by: chuckywang
My wet dream is for the no. 1 team as determined by the human rankings to be no. 3 when the BCS rankings are released.

SCREW HUMAN VOTERS! COMPUTER RANKINGS FTW!!!

2003 you mean?

you don't want that, lsu fans have spent enough money putting up billboards and wasting bandwidth on the internet bitching about that, god forbid if lsu happens to share the title or be on the outside looking in, i cant imagine what will happen

 

[sciencewhiz]

Originally posted by: chuckywang
My wet dream is for the no. 1 team as determined by the human rankings to be no. 3 when the BCS rankings are released.

SCREW HUMAN VOTERS! COMPUTER RANKINGS FTW!!!

That's significantly harder now then when it happened in 2003. They "fixed" that by making the polls worth even more. Now a team would have to be 5th or 6th in the computers to be #3 in the BCS. The only way that could happen is if there is no undefeated teams and there are a lot of 1 loss teams, or if a a Non-BCS school was the only undefeated team and somehow got the #1 ranking without a strong Strength of Schedule.

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: sciencewhiz
Oklahoma, despite being 4th in the polls, is 20th in the computers. They must not be impressed with wins over 0-2 North Texas, 0-3 Utah St, and a Miami team who's only wins have been against teams in the bottom 10% of Div-1A.

The computer problem is that they cannot consider score. If OU had won those games by a few points each, then even voters would have them barely in the top 25. But, no, OU has dominated those games. They are averaging over 61 points per game and their opponents are averaging under 9 points. It is sad that winning by an average of 53 points per game is meaningless to the computers.

Yes, good teams must occasionally play pansies. But, a good team will blow them away. With the stupid "no point consideration" rule, the computers can't tell OU apart from Air Force.

On the flip side, humans consider history whereas computers (for the most part) do not. Thus, a team that historically does well (Michigan) gets voted high for no good reason since history is irrelevant.

Keep up the posts, Sciencewhiz, I'm bowing out of creating football threads this year.

 

[kalster]

Originally posted by: dullard

Originally posted by: sciencewhiz
Oklahoma, despite being 4th in the polls, is 20th in the computers. They must not be impressed with wins over 0-2 North Texas, 0-3 Utah St, and a Miami team who's only wins have been against teams in the bottom 10% of Div-1A.

The computer problem is that they cannot consider score. If OU had won those games by a few points each, then even voters would have them barely in the top 25. But, no, OU has dominated those games. They are averaging over 61 points per game and their opponents are averaging under 9 points. It is sad that winning by an average of 53 points per game is meaningless to the computers.

Yes, good teams must occasionally play pansies. But, a good team will blow them away. With the stupid "no point consideration" rule, the computers can't tell OU apart from Air Force.

On the flip side, humans consider history whereas computers (for the most part) do not. Thus, a team that historically does well (Michigan) gets voted high for no good reason since history is irrelevant.

Keep up the posts, Sciencewhiz, I'm bowing out of creating football threads this year.

why? you rankings are always interesting

 

[Balt]

Originally posted by: CPA

Originally posted by: Balt
I think it's gonna be LSU and OU in the NC. OU's schedule is soft but that will probably prevent them from losing any games (unless they lose to Texas) whereas I think USC will probably drop one and UF will probably lose to LSU.

No one else even has a chance of going undefeated, imo. Ohio State isn't very strong this year, and I've got very little respect for Big East teams like West Virginia.

Very little respect for a conference that was 5-0 in Bowl games last year, has 4 teams in the BCS 25 (with South Florida looming just on the outside) and has shut the trap of every college football "expert" out there? :roll:

They aren't NC contenders. I don't know how to put it more simply than that. Despite being in a weak conference and having soft schedules, their best teams always drop 1 or 2 games. Look at the teams that West Virginia is playing out of conference this year. People are supposed to respect that? :roll: