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

[Mike and Kel]

Paul, you have way too much free time : )

PS. Everyone knows that the Grinell victory over Lawrence was a fluke and won't happen again in years.

Lawrence Rules!

-----Original Message-----
>From: Pat Gaule <pgaule at cox.net>
>Sent: Jan 8, 2008 10:05 PM
>To: husker at tssi.com
>Subject: Re: [personal] Re: [Husker] End of the Season
>
>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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