tigermikear

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Can you please tell me how the Sagarin Ratings @ USAToday Sagarin Ratings is calculated

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I'm not Matt, but I think the bcs drops the high and low computer ranking to get rid of outlier results like this...

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frankly I prefer a fully conditional system.

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This. A plus one is unnecessary in most years. Have a selection committee like in ncaa bb. If there are 4 teams with legitimate claims to the mnc, then use 2 bcs bowls as semi finals, with the nc game the next week (like it is now) all you do is cost a couple of 6-6 teams a bowl spot somewhere. S be it.
In years where it's not necessary, just play the mnc game as usual. If you need a play-in game (like this year maybe...osu vs. Bama?) ) then you've got the bcs games to handle it.
Selection committee...no change to the bowl schedule...no plus one when it's not necessary.

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worried?

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whether we beat Arky or not

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no.

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.Hope fully LSU will be the first team to win a NC under a two-QB system.

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LSU (2007) and Florida (2006) both did it.

The first stats didn't, and it's still less than a yard difference.

But when we consistently start at midfield, there are less yards for us to get, so it matters a little...

I say 3.

AUB/ORE
OSU/ARK
WISC/TCU

2 are at best decent.
ALA/MSU
LSU/aTm

Out of 35 bowl games...3? maybe 5? I guess you can blame the conference tie-ins...

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ive totally discredited this in previous posts.

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You haven't. The 2 schools' allotments only account for <40k of the 70-80k tickets that will be sold.

The school can ask for more tickets beyond its allotment. Sugar bowls involving LSU (even the LSU/ND one) sell more tickets than those not involving LSU, by as much as 12,000 tickets, which makes sense- as the locals have a reason to want to buy tickets late and go to the game.

Arky's main advantage isn't even that they beat LSU, it's that they are finishing on a much higher note (and ranked higher)

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to pass it off as just tax money is silly and just plain wrong.

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I think in the end, they want the best possible matchup. The corporate sponsors make sure most of the economics work. Just tired of hearing how Hog fans paying for hotel rooms makes them an obvious choice. Economically it doesn't add up. What makes them an obvious choice is 31-20 and #7 in the BCS.

I thought all the same things until I heard the former Arky SID (he's on the radio daily up here, and handled this stuff for years...) say that Arkansas would sell half the tickets of LSU (official allocations+LSU biased locals). I think in the end, the economic part of the LSU/Arky decision is a push. Especially when you consider the main benefit of "hotel rooms" is the tax associated with the room, not the revenue of the nightly rate...it gets even more irrelevant.

We're on the same team here...no big deal. Just an interesting debate.

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more idiocy. do any of you really think lsu would sell a single ticket more than arkansas to the sugar bowl? u think we would sell half the hotel rooms? come on.

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Don't really want to see LSU/tOSU part II. But on the revenue merits, LSU is more attractive.

Per Arky's former SID (in the last week) Arkansas would buy no more than 20k tickets (which would be a little more than their allotment) and in his opinion (and I agree) LSU would buy at least 40k (considering the location). So...

20k x $150 avg price= $3,000,000
40k x $150 avg price= $6,000,000

Bowl revenue difference $3,000,000
If Arky takes 10k hotel rooms at $150/nt = $1,500,000
If LSU takes ZERO = $0.

Even if you include food, the whole "tourism" aspect doesn't add up for Arky to be more attractive. Even if I'm overestimating the LSU ticket sales...I'm underestimating the LSU hotel sales (0).

If the Sugar Bowl chooses them (which they probably should) then so be it...but it won't be for $$ reasons.