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But there's also the situation where a team dominates a game, the other team scores a couple TDs in garbage time and the game seems a lot less impressive.

One I vaguely remember involves a Big 10 team that thoroughly dominated the other team and had a 35-7 lead very late. The opponent scores a few late TDs and 2 pointer, then scores again on the last play of the game to make it 35-29. Looks like a close game to a computer just processing the score (or to a pollster just looking at the final score).

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yes, but would you say it is more often than not that the final score is indicative of the difference between the teams on that given day? Again, any individual score is going to have a miniscule effect, it's the cumulative effect that's important.