re: TCU turns down Wisconsis rematch

like i said, maybe they will vote them in the big game one day


by the way, who are your elite teams in cfb?

tcu
boise
utah
wisconsin

i assume florida, bama...anyone else?

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by the way, who are your elite teams in cfb?

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Good question. I don't want to just throw names at you; I, unlike you, would like to back my answer up with evidence. I like to show my work.

Ok, so I have my own rating system (which has as many/few flaws as just about any other I've seen), and I took each school's ratings from the past four years. Why four? That's a class that (other than redshirts) has come and gone. It's a good way to judge who currently is elite.

But, I also think that 2010 is more important than 2007, so I counted 2007 with a weight of 1, 2009 with a weight of 1.333333, 2008 with a weight of 1.66666667, and 2010 with a weight of 2.

So, when you ask me who I think the elite teams are, I start there.

a = a team's rating from 2007
b = a team's rating from 2008
c = a team's rating from 2009
d = a team's rating from 2010
E = Eliteness quotient

E = a + 4b/3 + 8c/3 + 2d

(Flawed? Sure. But more right than wrong, I believe.)

Here are the top ten over the past four years:

Alabama
Auburn
Boise State
Florida
Louisiana State
Ohio State
Oklahoma
Oregon
Texas
Texas Christian

I put them in alphabetical order instead of their actual rank; trust me, you don't want to see it.

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Sagarin and Massey have rankings GCA disagrees with so he disregards them.

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. According to Massey, 10 of the 13 hardest schedules in the nation belonged to Pac-10 schools.

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some how I think if they had 10 SEC schools in the top 13 you'd agree

Well the Pac 10 all play each other and play 9 conference games. Most of them usually have at least 1 good OOC games vs a BCS opponent.

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Your sources are shite.

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They well respected, have been around for a long time, they are used by the BCS, but because you don't like part of the rankings, they are "shite"

why don't you produce an alternative ranking system?

Through this whole thing everyone is discrediting TCU and Boise. But in all reality they have nothing to prove to anyone. If teams want to play them, they now have to go to them. If you dont want to go to them and shut them up, you have no right to bitch. You might not like them, you might not like who they play. All they do is win and people love to bitch about teams that are good, not ones that everyone can beat.

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So you have no problem with their biased methodology?

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some how I think if they had 10 SEC schools in the top 13 you'd agree

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Oh sure even though I said the exact opposite last night.

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They well respected, have been around for a long time, they are used by the BCS, but because you don't like part of the rankings, they are "shite"

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Mel Kiper is well respected and he generally has no idea what the frick he is talking about. Year in and year out he jizzes himself about a group of prospects and says they'll be drafted in the first round or top 50 and year in and year out they aren't. Then he says they'll still be a success - they never are.

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why don't you produce an alternative ranking system?

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You mid major lovers would hate it and it doesn't fit ESPN's agenda.

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How do you think the two would fair if they played in the SEC,

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Anywhere between 5-3 and losing to Auburn in the SECCG. Really hard to guess. Other than Auburn, every team in the SEC lost to a team who is worse than TCU.

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Big 10,

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Champs.

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Big XII,

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Flip a coin for the Oklahoma game; the winner would win the B12CG.

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Pac 10,

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2nd or 3rd, depending on what time of year they played Stanford.

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ACC,

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Champs.

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or Big East?

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Champs.

SOFT!!!!!!