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Team  Harris Coaches Comp. SOS
1. Auburn (4) 3rd 3rd  1st  10th
2. Oregon (2) 1st 1st  8th  T-112th
3. Boise St. (3) 2nd  2nd 6th 77th 
4. TCU (5)  4th 4th  4th T-58th
5. Michigan St. (7) 5th  5th 3rd T-13th
6. Missouri (11)  8th 8th  2nd 8th
7. Alabama (8) 6th 6th 12th 81st
8. Utah (9)  7th  7th 10th 119th
9. Oklahoma (1)  11th 11th 5th T-13th
10. Wisconsin (13)  9th 9th 9th 56th
11. Ohio St. (10) 10th 10th 11th 47th
12. LSU (6) 12th 13th 6th 11th
13. Stanford (12)  13th 14th 14th 54th
14. Nebraska (16) 14th 12th 15th T-33rd

The comp rating is the BCS ranking of sorts, which makes up 33% of a teams overall standing in the BCS poll. The other 67% is based off the Harris and Coaches poll. The AP (rightly so) refused to put it's weight behind the BCS formula and awards it's own National Champion, usually the same as the BCS, but not always.

My bitch is simply that Oregon lists 8th on the computer , like they did last week. LSU despite losing is 6th on the computer, Oklahoma is 5th on the computer. Oregon sits at 8th. I think that the computers aren't weighing losses hard enough. You have TCU, BSU, Oregon, Missou, Auburn, Michigan State, Utah all standing undefeated, it's important for losses to count in my opinion.

Adding to the confusion? TCU.... They have a 9 point win over Oregon State (ranked 24 at the time). This is good enough for 4th in the computer. Utah (same conference) beats then #15 Pittsburgh by 3, and they are 10th. Neither team played any other close games. In the meantime Oregon beat #9 Stanford by 21 points. This makes them 8th. Not to knock Missou, but beating Oklahoma by 9 puts them 2nd on the computer despite no other ranked opponents.

If anyone can find a logical pattern in that, I'd love to hear it. I could make more sense out of a blind man throwing darts.

Last edited by alz (10/25/2010 11:18 am)

nah no worries, Auburn at 1 is okay, I have no issue with that. They've had games against South Carolina (12), Arkansas (12) and now LSU (6). To be perfect through that is pretty awesome.

My questions come in where you have the teams with the losses like Oklahoma.

Games in the season to note.
Home vs Air Force (win 27-24)
Away Cincinnati (win 31-29)

Sure you beat Texas at home 28-20, but so what? UCLA destroyed them in Austin!

I don't understand how you can squeak out games against mediocre opponents, have one convincing win against a ranked school (Home vs Florida State #17 47-17) and still get the #5 computer standing.

I would be okay if it was a weighted Strength of Schedule that dictated the position in that computer, but it doesn't appear to care how much you win by, it doesn't seem to care if you lose, depending on who you lose to. When you think of the TCU/Oregon example below, it doesn't appear to really care about the rankings of the teams you beat either, but Missouri/Oklahoma bouncing Missou up to #2 on the computer would dictate otherwise.

TCU beats the #24 team Oregon State (since unranked) by 9, no other ranked opponents and they get 4th on the computer?
Oregon beats #9 ranked Stanford (now 13th) by 21, no other ranked opponents, no other close games, and they get 8th on that same computer?

I'd just love for one of those pocket protector toting math nerds to explain what home cooked Crystal Meth they were baking when they came up with this ranking system

"Things I like."

You forgot "Lane Kiffin coaching the other team."

This is going to be easy, Alz. Oregon is going to be running up and down the field all night.

"62-41 Oregon wins"

I had the margin right, but both teams punted a little more than I thought they would.

alz wrote:

Next up Washington. This game doesn't worry me. There's no way Oregon should lose this game, it's at home, and Washington is 3-5. That said, this is a losable game if they don't come to play. Chip Kelly won't let that happen. Oregon in a romp 58-7.

Not to dwell on the negative, but the Ducks don't have the advantage of Lane Kiffin coaching the opposing team anymore.
The only land mine left in the regular season is the University to Arizona game. The Puddy Tats can play a little defense.

I feel incredibly stupid for having acted like Jake Locker is the second coming of John Elway.

Oregon 55
Washington 6

tkihshbt wrote:

I feel incredibly stupid for having acted like Jake Locker is the second coming of John Elway.

Oregon 55
Washington 6

A lot of people were on that bandwagon two months ago.
My college roommate still reminds me on a weekly basis I once dubbed Everick Sullivan the Next Michael Jordan.

artie_fufkin wrote:

alz wrote:

Here's something to add. Apparently my wife is awesome. I have her permission to buy an airline ticket to phoenix and get a seat to the game should Oregon get into it. GO DUCKS!!!!!!!!!

For night time entertainment, find one of the party patios on Scottsdale Road and just camp out. If you're looking for something a little more titilating at night, there are a couple of spots downtown on Van Buren, but for heaven's sakes be careful, and whatever you do stay out of the money pits near the 202 in Tempe. The only thing you'll be left with is an empty wallet and blue balls.

Blue balls???  You mean the all-night bingo parlor lets you take home the bingo pellets?

Empty wallet.  Blue balls.  You were talking about bingo, right?

alz wrote:

tkihshbt wrote:

I feel incredibly stupid for having acted like Jake Locker is the second coming of John Elway.

Oregon 55
Washington 6

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=5753089

Locker apparently won't be playing at all. I feel sorry for that goddamned Oregon mascot.... He's going to end up ripping off about 350 pushups on Saturday.

It's awfully convenient that injury crept up with him having sucked the last two games.  His agent **ahem, cough, cough, ahem, ahem**, I mean his personal advisor--after all, college kids don't have agents--must have told him that an injury would save his draft status.

Last edited by forsberg_us (11/01/2010 6:04 pm)

"With Locker out, redshirt freshman Keith Price will make his first career start in one of the most difficult environments in college football."

When is the last time a CF team scored more than 100? Was it Neil Lomax's Portland State team?

forsberg_us wrote:

artie_fufkin wrote:

"With Locker out, redshirt freshman Keith Price will make his first career start in one of the most difficult environments in college football."

When is the last time a CF team scored more than 100? Was it Neil Lomax's Portland State team?

Neil Lomax.  Wow, there's a name from the St. Louis sports past.  Used to love watching that guy sling it to Roy Green.

Careful, or I'll drop a Roger Wehrli reference on your head.

Last edited by artie_fufkin (11/02/2010 11:21 am)

artie_fufkin wrote:

forsberg_us wrote:

artie_fufkin wrote:

"With Locker out, redshirt freshman Keith Price will make his first career start in one of the most difficult environments in college football."

When is the last time a CF team scored more than 100? Was it Neil Lomax's Portland State team?

Neil Lomax.  Wow, there's a name from the St. Louis sports past.  Used to love watching that guy sling it to Roy Green.

Careful, or I'll drop a Roger Wehrli reference on your head.

No need.  In the game against Oklahoma, when Gahn McGaffie returned the opening kickoff for a score, it was the first time a Missouri kick returner had returned the opening kickoff for a score since Roger Wehrli in 1967.