[Husker] NU v MU (13 national championships for Nebraska!)

[Bapi Gupta]

All the data I have on my site was entered "by hand".  I used to work at 
the Sporting News and had access to some old NCAA yearbooks so I did 
1970-1972 while I was there.  I takes me about 8 hours to do a whole 
season, typing in each game.

Last year I came across James Howell's college football archive at:

http://homepages.cae.wisc.edu/~dwilson/rsfc/history/howell/

It's an excellent resources and he's welcomed me to use his data to 
complete my historical rankings.  I'll probably get around to doing that 
this Spring.

It's a little disturbing that my rankings don't have 1970 Nebraska 
(11-0-1) ranked #1.  We tied USC (6-4-1) and Notre Dame (11-1) lost to 
them, but our 17-12 bowl win over LSU (9-3) was a little less impressive 
than ND knocking off previously undefeated Texas (11-1).

On the other hand, it wouldn't surprise me if the 82 or 83 caught a break 
in my ratings and ended up #1.

I'm a little famous on the internet and I'd guess the BCS people have 
taken a look at my ratings once or twice.  I suppose if I dropped the 
gambling slant from my website, I might appear more politically correct. 
On the other hand, after corresponding with some people like Massey or 
Jerry Palm, I'm not sure I would want to be part of that big mess.

About ten years ago, I was one of about half a dozen computer ratings 
systems on the internet (I first posted my ratings, publically, on this 
list in about 1990).  Nowadays, they're a million of us.  You can see 
some of them here:

http://homepages.cae.wisc.edu/~dwilson/rsfc/history/howell/

Bapi

On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Mark J Norris wrote:
> Bapi,
> I had no idea you were so famous!
> http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/national_championships/champ_results.php?selector=Gupta%20Power%20Ratings
>
> So why is there no 1973-1990 champions?
>
> -- Bapi Gupta <bapi at bapi.net> wrote:
>
>> Mark J Norris wrote:
>>
>>> See: http://www.wolverinespedia.com/champs.html
>>> they list eleven through an assortment of rating systems.
>>>
>>
>> CFBDatawarehouse lists them with 7 recognized national championships:
>> http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_ia/bigten/michigan/national_champs.php
>>
>> The problem is that all but 3 occured prior to 1936, the first year the AP
>> Poll was used.  Since that time, generally everybody "recognizes" the winner
>> of the AP Poll as owning at least a share of the national title.  Before
>> 1936, exactly which polls/ratings sytems are valid national championship
>> selectors is open to debate.  Many of these early national championships were
>> rewarded *years* after those seasons ended.
>
> Wow, this is fun, using this site, we have *13* college football national
> championships!
>
> http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_ia/bigten/michigan/national_champs.php
>
> And another fun thing is that they recognize my ratings the "Gupta Power
> Ratings".  Maybe I should fill in a few more years on my website and we
> can have 100 national championships ;-)
>
> Bapi
>
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