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BCS computers should not decide who plays in BCS games and the BCS National Championship Game! That should be determined by the play of athletes and their teams on the football field! This year, in 2008, there are two undefeated teams and six teams with one loss each, yet only two of these teams are allowed to play for the National Championship! How can that be fair? Somehow, a Texas team (with a record of 11 – 1) that actually beat Oklahoma (11 – 1) in their 103rd Red River Shootout on October 11, 2008, 45 – 35, is bypassed by Oklahoma in the rankings and wins the right to play a weaker Missouri team (9 – 3) in the Big 12 Championship. Oklahoma crushed Missouri, 62 – 21, and advances to play Florida in the BCS National Championship Game. BCS computers have made many egregious, inexplicable errors. Perhaps, the worst case was in 2003 when BCS computers somehow ranked Oklahoma number 1 (before the bowls) after it was crushed by Kansas State in the Big 12 Championship Game, 35 - 7. Oklahoma, who had not even won its own conference, played in the BCS National Championship game against SEC champion, LSU (ranked number 2 in the final BCS standings before the bowls), and lost, 21 – 14. Meanwhile, USC, which was ranked number 1 in both the Coaches and AP polls entering the postseason ended up third in the BCS final rankings before the bowls due to the faulty BCS computers! USC beat number 4 ranked Michigan in the Rose Bowl, 28 – 14. USC ended up number 1 in the AP poll and LSU was number 1 in the final BCS standings, resulting in a split, shared national championship!
The dominance of BCS teams in the computer rankings during the 10 BCS years is skewed and much greater than it should be. The system is biased and broken when a “TIER 1” BCS team (see TABLE 3) that has 4, 5, or 6 losses (and is clearly an “average” team, having an “off” year) is ranked in the TOP 25 postseason rankings, knocking out more deserving and better football teams not from the TIER 1 with vastly superior records / accomplishments that year (i.e., both BCS and non – BCS teams). The average final AP Poll during the BCS years had 1 BCS team with 5 losses and 5 other BCS teams with 4 losses each – all ahead of some BCS / non – BCS teams with better records / accomplishments and football teams. A striking example of this strong BCS computer bias follows:
TIER 1 BCS UCLA of the Pac – 10, with a mediocre record of 7 – 5, actually finished 25th in the final December 3, 2006 BCS rankings (before the bowls). UCLA only had a Pac – 10 record better than 4 teams in the 10 team Pac – 10. UCLA was not ranked in the Top 25 by a single voter in the final Coaches Poll (i.e., 63 voters). Only 4 of the 113 Harris Poll human voters voted UCLA into their final Top 25. Accordingly, 172 human voters of the combined 176 voters in the final December 3, 2006 BCS Coaches Poll and Harris Poll (i.e., 98% of all human voters) did not vote for UCLA. Yet, UCLA's rigged BCS computer score was high enough to move it into the 25th BCS spot, ahead of better and more deserving non – BCS teams like TCU (10 – 2) (ranked in the Top 25 by 111 of the combined 176 human voters in the final December 3, 2006 BCS Coaches Poll and Harris Poll or 63% of all human voters), Houston (10 – 4), Hawaii (11 – 3), Navy (9 - 3), and Central Michigan (10 – 4). There is a serious problem with a BCS computer ranking system that results in a very average 7 – 5 UCLA team (not ranked by 98% of the 176 human voters in the final December 3, 2006 BCS Coaches Poll and Harris Poll) ranking higher in the BCS final standings than all of these more deserving non – BCS teams!
Of course, UCLA lost its Emerald Bowl game to Florida State on December 27, 2006 by a score of 44 – 27, again clearly exposing its “averageness” with a season ending record of 7 – 6, barely above .500! Meanwhile, non – BCS teams that were more deserving than UCLA of that 25th BCS ranking - TCU, Hawaii, and Central Michigan won 2006 bowl games! Inexplicably, the final BCS standings published after the bowls were played still had UCLA, now 7 – 6, ranked 25th ahead of strong non – BCS teams, TCU (11 – 2), with the fourth longest win streak in the country at that time at 8 games, Hawaii (11 – 3), Central Michigan (10 – 4), Houston (10 – 4), Navy (9 – 4)!
Incidentally, there were only 2 (out of 25 teams) non – BCS teams ranked in the final BCS standings on December 3, 2006 before the bowls were played, Boise State and BYU, ranked 8th and 20th, respectively. In the 2007 BCS Fiesta Bowl, non – BCS Boise State beat powerful BCS Big 12 champion Oklahoma in an overtime thriller, 43 – 42. With that win, Boise State ended up the only undefeated team in Division 1- A at 13 – 0 (out of 119 BCS and non – BCS teams) and extended its nation's longest win streak (at that time) to 13 games. Meanwhile, BYU thrashed BCS Oregon in the Pioneer Las Vegas Bowl, 38 – 8, ending the season at 11 – 2 with the nation's second longest win streak (at that time) of 10 games. Guess where Boise State and BYU ended up in the final BCS standings published after the bowl games? 8th and 20th – they did not improve a single spot in the post – bowl BCS standings!
These examples clearly demonstrate that the biased BCS computer programs will never allow a non – BCS team (even if it's undefeated like Boise State was in 2006) to be picked to play in the BCS National Championship Game ahead of BCS teams.
The BCS calculation of its Computer Rankings remains the same today as it was for the examples noted herein with the same 6 computer polls used in the rankings.Click here to see details of TIER 1 and other teams' preseason consensus / postseason rankings for 10 – year BCS era per TABLE 3: COMPARISON OF DIVISION 1 – A / FBS PRESEASON CONSENSUS RANKINGS AND POSTSEASON FOR TEN (10) BCS YEARS 1998 – 2007 (TABLE 3)
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