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

[Skylar Dodds]

I agree with that except in OUs case.  OU beat Mizzou TWICE and is ranked
below.  I think that's a little funny myself.

I love the people who say "It should be settled on the field".  It IS
settled on the field.  The initial 12 games the teams play aren't
exhibition, they do count.  

I've often wondered what it would be like if there was a tournament of
conference champions.  Treat it like the divisions in MLB and NFL.  Big XII,
Big X, SEC, Pac-10, and ACC.  That would bring more value to the conference
champions as well.

It would NEVER happen, but just a thought.

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Skylar
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: husker-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:husker-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf
Of
> Andrew Smith
> Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 8:48 PM
> To: Todd Richards
> Cc: husker at tssi.com; STUART JONES
> Subject: Re: [personal] Re: [Husker] End of the Season
> 
> 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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