The Thirsty Scholars: Margin of Victory: Why the computer rankings are ...: "Watching the BCS Countdown show is getting to be more frustrating that listening to Mark May on College Football Final. Both Robert Smith a..."
JAngry you speak the truth. First Robert Smith and Craig James are a couple of knuckleheads extraordinaire. Craig is just dumb, as in SMU Pony Express dumb. And Robert Smith is an arrogant SOB. Remember his tantrum he pulled while at Ohio State? And Kirk Herbstreit is the best non biased analyst going. He is the Tim Russert of college football. Period. Todd McShay is pretty good too. Saw Knucklehead Smith act so condescending to McShay on TV this weekend too.
You certainly have to wonder about the BCS poll. Oklahoma # 1 was wrong, and they nearly dropped out of the top 10 this week. And so will Auburn. Oregon is so the best team in the conference RIGHT NOW. But what is upsetting about this years "let's tweak it again" BCS poll, is that to avoid what happened in past years they have decided to give more weight to the two human polls. 2/3 to be exact. And if the Harris Interactive and USA Today Coaches Poll BOTH have Oregon at # 1 then how can they be #8 overall??? Talk about fuzzy math. To properly do the percentages to arrive at 8 with two number 1's mean they had a 24 ranking in the formula to get to be # 8. Ridiculous. And that's the problem. It's not about computers and numbers, it's about the eye test. What do you see? And I am sorry but Oklahoma and Auburn are not # 1 teams.
The quackerbacks in the northwest should be dancing in the streets of Eugene, in what are probably the ugliest uni's on the face of the earth. (Pick any one, the gold & gangrene, the green & gangrene, the black and gray.) That # 1 ranking is the kiss of death. Auburn can have that auspicious ranking and Oregon should be thrilled they do not heading into Troy.
War Kirk Herbstreit for being the King of College Football.
War Robert Smith for being an ass clown.
War Craig James for being a butt swab.
Oracle... I don't think the computer polls take the Human polls into account... I think they are separate and only take the strength of schedule, wins, and 'quality wins' into account. Not sure though... All I know is that it is pretty much impossible to draw up an algorithm to decide which 2 teams are the best. I also think that, in a season like this, it is DAMN difficult for humans to decide and agree on which two teams are best... this is even more reason for the obvious (playoff) solution.
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