BCS computer has Texas ranked #1 this week

[NUance]

BCS computer poll ranks Texas as top team in the countryDallas Morning News; Published: 11 September 2011 09:23 PM

The Colley Matrix, one of six computer polls used in college football’s BCS Standings, has a surprising team sitting atop its rankings this week – the Texas Longhorns.

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They have Nebraska ranked #43. Okla State #4. OU is #32. LINK

 

[Nebula]

I don't know what's worse, a clearly average Texas team with QB issues ranked #1, or an Auburn team that needed a miracle onside kick recovery to beat Utah State at #2.

I'll agree the poll is unbiased. It's also completely idiotic.

 

[GSG]

 

[wildman]

Why is this being reported? I thought the BCS polls didn't come out till like week 6.

 

[HeyBurke]

Why is this being reported? I thought the BCS polls didn't come out till like week 6.

The BCS rankings that are released later in the season are a combination of many different rankings. As far as I can tell, this is just the BCS computer's ranking.

 

[NUance]

Why is this being reported? I thought the BCS polls didn't come out till like week 6.

The BCS rankings that are released later in the season are a combination of many different rankings. As far as I can tell, this is just the BCS computer's ranking.

Yeah, this is just one of six computer rankings used in addition to the polls in a formula to get the BCS ranking. At this point in the season it produces nonsensical results. Like ranking the Whorns #1. And the Sooners #35.

 

[VA Husker Fan]

This is what happens when you feed a small amount of data into a computer and ask it to come up with a ranking. It doesn't even start to take shape until you get 5 or 6 games in, and I'd question whether 12 games is really enough info to make it accurate enough to be useful.

 

[HuskerFanChuck]

That's the one thing I've always appreciated about Sagarin. He's very honest about the idiocy of the computer polls this early in the season. He admits that his don't really tell the tale until late in the season because of the small sample size of the data being put in. He also produces two different polls, one that includes his entire formula, and one that's tweaked for what the BCS requires. Or at least he used to... haven't followed the computer polls quite as closely in recent years.