Official 2012 College Football Season Thread - Page 10

Originally Posted by MrG 

Uh, wasn't Auburn the 2010 BCS National Champ?

I'm pretty sure Bama has artificially inflated that NC list enough, there's no need to try and steal one from their in-state rivals.

Originally Posted by HORNS 


Exactly! Don't you remember this, Bama fan?

Judging by e-mail and Twitter responses, quite a few of you read these rankings each week and come away thinking I'm an idiot. Allow me to posit a question. How many more of you would feel that way if my Top 25 kicked off with the following five teams this week?

1. Oregon State
2. Stanford
3. Notre Dame
4. Iowa State
5. Texas

That is the actual top five this week from the computer ranking programmed by Kenneth Massey. (In case you're wondering, he has Alabama at No. 19.) His ranking is one of the six used by the BCS to determine which teams play for the national title. It counts for far more than my piddly AP ballot, which counts for nothing. Pretty outrageous, isn't it?

Not really. This is how rankings would look if you took away preseason poll bias and the dreaded "eyeball test," two things fans frequently suggest need to be eliminated from the process. So is that better?

Let's take a look at another poll used in the BCS formula that also eliminates preseason bias and the eyeball test. Here is this week's top five in Wes Colley's computer ranking:

1. Stanford
2. Notre Dame
3. Oregon
4. Florida
5. Oregon State

Once again, on-field results trump reputation and hype. And you probably think he's a bigger moron than you think I am.

Now let's look at the top five in those polls and the top five in the AP Poll at the end of the 2011 regular season.

Massey
1. LSU
2. Alabama
3. Arkansas
4. Oklahoma State
5. Kansas State

Colley
1. LSU
2. Oklahoma State
3. Alabama
4. Kansas State
5. Stanford

AP Poll
1. LSU
2. Alabama
3. Oklahoma State
4. Stanford
5. Oregon

The differences are minimal compared to the differences between those polls after four weeks of play. By December, the method used in the early weeks really doesn't matter that much. So relax. No matter how we vote or compute, we all pretty much arrive at the same place in December.

Originally Posted by HORNS 

I found this very interesting. Tell me what you guys think:
CNNSI College Football Power Rankings

Originally Posted by adsmith4 



I will be taking another picture like this in 3 1/2 months.  LA 3 years ago, NOLA last year, and Miami this year.  Thanks for the tour of the US Bama.  Roll Tide.