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Old 10-14-2007, 08:12 PM
Scary_Tiger Scary_Tiger is offline
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Default Re: ***First Official BCS Standings Thread***

RB has OSU #1 and Michigan #10. lol
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Old 10-14-2007, 09:30 PM
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Default Re: ***First Official BCS Standings Thread***

I think it's interesting to look at the difference between the human polls and the computers.

Here is a list taking USA Today minus the computer average. So negative means that the coaches poll has the team that many spots better than the computer average whereas positive means that the USA Today poll ranks that team that many spots lower than the computer average.

Virginia 9.5
Kentucky 9
Auburn 7
Arizona State 6.5
Kansas 6.5
South Carolina 5
Tennessee 4.5
LSU 3
Virginia Tech 2.5
South Florida 2
Michigan 2
Missouri 1
Georgia 1
Cincinnati 1
West Virginia -3
Florida -3.5
Ohio State -4.5
Boston College -5
Texas Tech -5*
California -5.5
Oklahoma -7
Oregon -7
Texas -8*
Hawaii -9
USC -14

* Texas and Texas Tech aren't rated by the computers so I assumed a ranking of 26th. Therefore, the above gives the minimum negative difference.

Speaking generally, the Pac 10 seems to be rated significantly higher by people than the formulas while the opposite is true for the SEC. It's interesting that of the 25 teams only 5 were within 2 spots.
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Old 10-15-2007, 02:34 PM
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It would take an absolute retard or the BCS to completely disregard margin of victory; I am not that person.

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Old 10-15-2007, 04:36 PM
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Default Re: ***First Official BCS Standings Thread***

O-H
I-O

Ship the money.
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Old 10-15-2007, 04:41 PM
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It would take an absolute retard to completely disregard margin of victory; I am not that person.

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I don't want to call you retarded, but....

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SoS should be and should have always been 1000x more important than margin of victory.

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