re: Boise State's Bowl Record since 2004

Somebody somewhere has to decide that a win over Team A is better than a win over Team B. This goes on even in the sport that all the playoff advocates point to as the poster-child for a CFB playoff, NCAA basketball.

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I never said we were better than Florida that year

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But you said a team that doesn't win its conference is not the best team in the conference, by that logic the team that did win the conference is the best team.

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so why should they be named the best team in the nation?

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they were not.

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So how is how good each team you beat determined?

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regression analysis

wins/losses

wins/losses of their opponents

wins/losses of these opponents' opponents

you get a really good picture of things by going to this level

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Is a 13-0 dominant defensive win better than a 55-42 overtime thriller?

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assuming the parallel teams are even, a 3 point win is a 3 point win and a 13 point win is a 13 point win

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Is every game going to be given a crowd coefficient?

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i've yet to decide on how to measure this

had LSU gone undefeated in 2006, they would be one of the most impressive teams ever with that schedule, esp the road games

i have not figured how to reflect this on paper objectively

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You're the one arguing that undefeated teams should be given no shot.

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if they had a shite schedule and beat patsies

that's why this is only 1 part of the formula

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What "objective math formula" should be used to determine all this.

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well you can split SOS into 2 parts, with total SOS and top 1/4 SOS

SOS is determined the same way as above

opponent's wins
their opponents' wins
their opponents' wins

then do the same thing with records against the top 1/3 of the schedule

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so is 13-0 the same as 55-42 in OT?

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13-0 is much better. an OT game ended as a tie in regulation. the 13-0 game had a victory

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Better than the BCS, though. You can't go 33-0 in the regular season and still be told "too bad."

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you can also have an 8 seed, who clearly is not the best team in the country, win the title

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OU was not that good that year and where only in the game to begin with because Texas lost after McCoy got hurt.

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You don't KNOW THIS!!!!OU WAS very good that year. JUST not that night...... OR WAS BOISE JUST THAT GOOD???? THINK ABOUT IT!! Look at OU'S stats from that year and tell me they sucked.

Are there currently any math formulas that use the regression analysis? If there is more than one that uses this, then why do they end up with different polls? Also, adding the scores of the game is a little silly. How many times have you heard the phrase "much closer than the score" or "not as close as the score would indicate"?

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OK, so what's the problem?

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It would be a travesty if a team like 05 FSU or 01 LSU won a NC while teams like 01 Nebraska or 05 tOSU say don't even get a shot because they did not win their conference.

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Suddenly, you've got a wide open anything goes college football season

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this will never happen without destroying CFB

there is only so much money to go around

if you spread it around, everyone just ends up crappier, with fewer horrible teams

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that looks strangely like March Madness.

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march madness frickin sucks

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Where the regular season is completely meaningless because you can lose 3 games and still play for the NC.

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there is a reason why CFB, and not CBB, supports every athletic department worth supporting (the rest due it by fees)

All I'm hearing from the playoff opponents is "Change is bad, brah."

Again, playoffs work fine in every other NCAA sport. It even works fine for the FCS. It's almost exactly the same system college players will see in the NFL.

The BCS blows. You guys get your head out of your arses so you can see it, too.