Projected BCS Top 15

[JTrain]

1) Oregon

2) Boise St.

3) Auburn

4) TCU

5) Michigan St.

6) Missouri

7) Wisconsin

8) Alabama

9) Utah

10) Oklahoma

 

You and I both got Missouri at 6 but goofed on #1 and had Utah too low.

 

[Sparker]

My drunken attempt at peanut butter cookies was foiled! Dang.

[JTrain]

Craig James: "Boise has two good wins to hang their hats on. Everybody else has three or four."

 

Really, Craig? Oregon has beaten one team with a winning record. Not another team with even a single point in the AP poll. What are the 3-4 big wins?

[Minnesota_husker]

1.Auburn

2.Oregon

3.Boise

4.TCU

5.Michigan State

6.Alabama

7.Missouri

8.Utah

9.Ohio State

10.Oklahoma

I was not off by much

 

Switch Missouri and Bama and insert wisconsin over OSU and bumb okie down a spot

[suh_fan93]

Auburn is #1 in the new BCS standings????

 

Having to do deal with this retarded computer ranking system otherwise known as the BCS standings is ludicrous.

 

Unbelievable.

[schuhbdoo]

Auburn and UO are the two best teams to date this year. If they both win out they will play each other and the Green Scoring Machine will beat

Auburn in Glendale, AZ. Auburn has a bunch of SEC wins, LSU, ARK, those are better than most other teams.

[suh_fan93]

Auburn and UO are the two best teams to date this year. If they both win out they will play each other and the Green Scoring Machine will beat

Auburn in Glendale, AZ. Auburn has a bunch of SEC wins, LSU, ARK, those are better than most other teams.

Disagree on Auburn. They barely beat Kentucky. Kentucky is 4-4 this year. I think they won by 3 and they also had to go to OT to beat 4-3 Clemson. No way they should be ranked #1. They leap frogged four spots. The BCS is a sham.

[SaturnDrew]

Auburn and UO are the two best teams to date this year. If they both win out they will play each other and the Green Scoring Machine will beat

Auburn in Glendale, AZ. Auburn has a bunch of SEC wins, LSU, ARK, those are better than most other teams.

Disagree on Auburn. They barely beat Kentucky. Kentucky is 4-4 this year. I think they won by 3 and they had to go to OT to beat Clemson. No way they should be ranked #1. They leap frogged four spots. The BCS is a sham.

 

But nowadays in college football, a win is a win, no matter how ugly it is. Every team is going to have that one game against a mediocre opponent that they should have blown out and just barely escaped with a win. Oregon will have one soon unless you want to say their 11 point victory against Arizona State wasn't quality enough.

[JTrain]

Auburn and UO are the two best teams to date this year. If they both win out they will play each other and the Green Scoring Machine will beat

Auburn in Glendale, AZ. Auburn has a bunch of SEC wins, LSU, ARK, those are better than most other teams.

Disagree on Auburn. They barely beat Kentucky. Kentucky is 4-4 this year. I think they won by 3 and they had to go to OT to beat Clemson. No way they should be ranked #1. They leap frogged four spots. The BCS is a sham.

 

You should learn about the history of the BCS formula and how it got to be the way it is before throwing around criticism. From 2001-2003, the committee weeded out the computer rankings which included margin of victory (two of the original three did). This was due to the media's overblown focus on "style points", or teams fighting for crucial formula points by scoring unnecessarily in big wins in order to move higher in the computer rankings. The BCS committee either didn't notice, or didn't care, that the human polls clearly factored in margin of victory. So they essentially (unfairly) neutered the computers that wanted to include margin of victory. This was not the fault of the owners/creators of the computer formulas.

 

If computers were allowed to factor in MOV, Auburn would not likely be number one. Just look at Sagarin's "real" rankings (used in the early years of the BCS) versus his neutered BCS rankings. Oregon is #1 and Auburn is #6 in the real rankings, while the non-MOV rankings have Auburn 3rd and Oregon 6th. Similar switches can be seen in Massey, who also lists both MOV and non-MOV rankings on his website.

[suh_fan93]

The BCS should be criticized. The BCS does not allow teams to settle it on the field, instead, voters and computers combine to determine the final BCS title-game. The problem with the BCS lies with the two-thirds portion that is determined by the human polls. It's not clear cut. It's opinions and biases and pride and politics. Is it really shocking that an SEC team jumped four spots out of nowhere to claim the #1 BCS ranking? Come on!

 

Competition should determine championships, not balloting or computers.