[Husker] I guess I have to respectfully disagree

[gscratch1 at comcast.net]

> I guess it depends what rankings you go by.  I've always hated the whole 
> "record vs. ranked opponents" stuff because most of those statistics 
> only consider where the opponent was ranked at the time you beat them.  
> The only rankings that have any meaning are those at the end of the 
> season.

I guess I have to disagree.  It seems to me that the ranking of a team when you play them is more relevant to how your team is than their eventual ranking (or their pre-season ranking, for that matter).  This no-longer-used factor of adjusting your ranking based on your opponents' rankings at the end of the season seemed to ignore how that team might have changed (for better or worse) since you played them.

what if, for example, Rutgers had played and beaten Louisville their first game?  what would that have done to the BCS ranking of both?

Glen in NJ