[personal] Re: [Husker] End of the Season

[Pat Gaule]

I think it's clear that the Grinnell Pioneers deserve the BCS championship:

Grinnell beat
Lawrence who beat
Knox who beat
Eureka who beat
Concordia IL who beat
Benedictine IL who beat
Greenville who beat
Concordia WI who beat
Wisconsin Lutheran who beat
Kalamazoo who beat
Bluffton who beat
Defiance who beat
Anderson who beat
Taylor who beat
William Penn who beat
Trinity Int'l who beat
Valparaiso who beat
Jacksonville FL who beat
Morehead St who beat
Dayton who beat
Fordham who beat
Colgate who beat
Towson who beat
Richmond who beat
Wofford who beat
Appalachian St who beat
Michigan who beat
Florida who beat
Kentucky who beat
LSU

(Useless fact of the day: Grinnell went 1-9 in Division 3 and is ranked 
693rd out of 709 teams in all of college football, according to this 
poll: http://prwolfe.bol.ucla.edu/cfootball/ratings.htm#fourth)

Andrew Smith wrote:
> Are you serious?  We all know that transitivity does not apply in sports.
> 
> Head-to-head means a lot, but it's ALL the head-to-head games that 
> matter, not just one.
> Consider:
> Tennessee 35, Georgia 14
> Florida 59, Tennessee 20
> Alabama 41, Tennessee 17
> Georgia 26, Alabama 23
> Georgia 42, Florida 30
> So who do you rank above whom?  And how do you rank these teams among 
> the other teams they've played so that no one is ranked below a team 
> they beat?  Let me know when you figure it out. :-)
> 
> The "<team> did not even win their division" argument is just as bad 
> when deciding final rankings since it completely ignores all the 
> head-to-head games out of conference and sometimes outside of the 
> division!  The only reason Georgia (with 2 losses) did not win their 
> division is because 1 of Tennessee's 3 losses (at the time) was outside 
> the division (to 7-6 California).  Tennessee finished the season with 4 
> losses; Georgia had only 2.  Ranking Tennessee over Georgia requires 
> that at least 2 head-to-head games be completely ignored.
> 
> Andy
> 
> Todd Richards wrote:
> 
>>   That is another bug-a-boo in the college system.  Head to head 
>> competition doesn't mean much.  I can cite numerous examples from this 
>> year alone of a team soundly pounding another team, and later in the 
>> year, being passed in the polls.  Georgia was drilled by Tennessee 
>> this year, but I've heard many pundits saying that Georgia should have 
>> been in the MNC game.  Georgia didn't even win the SEC East.  
>> Tennessee did.  Sheesh........
>>      Todd in Tennessee
>>   
> 
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