[Husker] I thought you should see this story

[David Strong]

> > What's wrong with Boise State
> and Oregon playing for the BCS championship if those are 
> > the two teams that qualify for the game?  Only
> two teams get to play for the championship, 
> > it's a mathematical formula, why would there be any
> controversy?  It's right there in 
> > the numbers.  
> 
> But it has never been a 'mathematical formula', it is a
> combination of two HUMAN POLLS
> and multiple computer polls, none of which will completely
> agree with each other so 
> obviously they are all subjective, even the
> 'mathematical'ones.
> 
So they are all subjective?  OK.

> > The AP poll, you mean another of the elections to pick
> the champion of a sport?  This one 
> > where the voters are a bunch of sportswriters? 
> Sounds definitive too.
> > What could be wrong with any of this?
> 
> You mean the AP poll that ORIGINATED the concept of a
> national champion in football, 

Yes, that's the one. But what you mean is they originated and implemented the concept of electing a sports champion by an election where the voters are sportswriters.  The whole concept, and however you want to implement it, is asinine.

Dave