BCS Error - Final Standings Revised
December 8, 2010 6:00 pm EST
The National Football Foundation released revised final BCS standings. The revision was necessitated by a miscalculation in the Colley computer rankings, where the Appalachian State-Western Illinois FCS playoff game was omitted from the final Colley rankings. Mr. Colley discovered this error in a subsequent review and informed the BCS group. The net result of the error is that Boise State goes from #11 to #10 and LSU goes from #10 to #11 in the revised BCS final standings.
"I was deeply disturbed when I learned about this today. This error should not have happened and is unacceptable. The final standings have been corrected. Fortunately, it had no effect on any team's eligibility for the BCS games. But the simple fact that it could have means this issue will be near the top of the agenda for the conference commissioners' annual review next spring," said Bill Hancock, Executive Director of the BCS.
Personally I am not really concerned how disturbed Hancock was. This is the fallacy of the computers, none of us really know how those computers are programmed and what formula says that Auburn is #1 and Oklahoma is #4. Does anyone question that OSU is #16 in the Sagarin poll and Alabama and their 3 losses are #8. So we are to believe that the results of just one D1AA game would be enough to change two teams in the standings? And that is not the worse part. Neither LSU or Boise State played Appalachian State or Western Illinois. Makes no sense to me.
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Sugar Bowl for OSU - Auburn/Oregon in Championship Game
December 5, 2010 8:30 pm EST
No real surprises tonight as the final BCS standings were released. Auburn finished on top with OSU's bowl opponent from last year Oregon, came in second to set up the championship game. Ohio State ended the season ranked 6th and has earned a game with #8 Arkansas in the Allstate Sugar Bowl. This will be the fourth trip for the Buckeyes to New Orleans. At this time, they are 1-2 in Sugar Bowl games and everyone is aware of their shortcomings against the SEC teams in bowls. Let's hope this is the year these trends end.
The Big Ten as a conference will be well represented again this year in the rest of the bowl schedule. Wisconsin, thanks to it's victory over OSU will ride into the Rose Bowl for the first time since they won three games in the 90's. They will take on the #3 team in the BCS, the TCU Horned Frogs. Both teams will have a lot they want to prove.
Michigan State, in spite of their 11-1 record will be blocked out of the BCS, because of the ridiculous rule that you can only have two teams per conference. Meanwhile the 8-4 Connecticut Huskies will play in the Fiesta Bowl. Nonetheless, the Spartans will go to the best non-BCS bowl for the conference, the Capital One Bowl and play Alabama. The defending champ Tide looked to be the team to beat this year so Coach Dantonio will have a huge challenge to overcome.
In addition, Penn State will take on Florida in the Outback bowl in Tampa. It was certainly a big difference for both teams from last year to 2010. Michigan returns to the bowl schedule after a two year absence, yet will play in a January in the Gator Bowl against Mississippi State. Also, Northwestern will play Texas Tech in the TicketyCity Bowl, Illinois will face Baylor in the new Texas Bowl, and Iowa will play Missouri in the Insight Bowl.
Let the games begin!
OSU is #1
October 10, 2010 2:00 pm EST
For the first time since the final poll of the 2007 regular season, Ohio State is the number one team in the land. With the Alabama loss this past weekend, the Buckeyes have moved up to top spot in the polls. The Oregon Ducks, OSU's opponent in last January's Rose Bowl have moved all the way up to the #2 spot.
BCS Standings Coming in Two Weeks
October 7, 2010 9:30 pm EST
The Bowl Championship Series standings will be released starting October 17th on Sunday nights during ESPN's BCS Countdown show. The show will debut Sunday at 8:15 pm and run through December 5th. Programming will be strange as the first 45 minutes of the show will be on ESPN, then at 9:00 pm, it will move to ESPNU.
The show will begin with a special preview edition on October 10th. Each week it will include not only the announcement of the 25 teams in the weekly BCS standings but also discussion from analysts, including the potential impact of upcoming games and interviews with college football coaches and players. There will also be a weekly Heismanology segment.
ESPN is in its first season as the TV home for the BCS, with rights to the Orange, Sugar and Fiesta Bowls, as well as the BCS Championship Game. For those that are ever interested in where the money goes, here is how the BCS money was divided after last year's bowl games:
* Big 10 $22.2 Million
* SEC: $22.2 Million
* ACC, B12, Big East, Pac 10: $17.7 Million each
* MWC: $9.8 Million
* WAC: $7.8 Million
* C-USA: $2.8 Million
* MAC: $2.1 Million
* FCS Leagues: $1.8 Million
* Sun Belt: $1.5 Million
* Notre Dame Fighting Irish: $1.3 Million
* Army Black Knights and Navy Midshipmen: $0.1 Million
Big 10 and SEC Rule Current Top 25
September 19, 2010 1:30 pm EST
After three weeks, the polls are starting to take a shape that may dictate how things will look the rest of the year. Presently there are 6 teams from both the Big Ten and the SEC in the top 25 (7 B10 if you want to count Nebraska). Victories over Notre Dame have somehow propelled Michigan and Michigan State into the top 25, and somehow Florida and LSU continue to hang around the top 12 in spite of how bad they look. With all that said, it is still a three team race between Alabama, Ohio State and Boise State for tickets to Glendale in January. All three teams looked the part this past weekend and solidified their place in the poll's top three. Big 12 standouts Texas, Oklahoma and Nebraska continue to make a case to be teams to move up if the top three should stumble (the Huskers actually took one of OSU's first place votes this week). And Oregon is now averaging more than a point a minute so I guess they don't really miss Masoli too much.
Boise State Makes a Statement for Playing for the Title
September 7, 2010 2:00 pm EST
After the first week theoretically, half of the teams are now eliminated from a shot at the national championship. The reason? Boise State has won the only game that they will be challenged this season. They will finish undefeated and will fill one of the slots in the big game if OSU or Alabama gets beat this season. Who knows, the Broncos may even jump the Bucks and Tide, after today, they have 8 AP first place votes.
Pre-Season is Over, Time To Hit the Field
August 21, 2010 1:00 pm EST
We have been reading our pre-season magazines and listening to the 'experts' babble on about who they think will meet in Arizona in January for the championship. The last of the primary polls came out today. The AP followed suit with everyone else by voting Alabama to the same place they finished last year, number one. Ohio State starts the season #2 with 3 first place votes. The biggest surprise for me was the press voting USC #15. Are they not rule breakers? I guess if you cheat to make your team the best possible the Associated Press thinks that is OK. It is so great to think they were too good to be a part of the BCS any longer.
The polls mean nothing at this point, they make great conversation starters but now it is time to hit the field and prove who is the best team in the land.
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