[bigboydan]

I still can't believe these ranking this year. I mean FOX must be kicking themselves for paying all that money for those TV right to air such bad schools in the championship game.

 	Harris Poll  	USA Today  	Computer Rankings  	BCS
  	TEAM 	RK 	PTS 	% 	RK 	PTS 	% 	A&H 	RB 	CM 	KM 	JS 	PW 	% 	COMP AVG 	BCS AVG 	PRVS
1	Missouri	1	2779	.9751	2	1454	.9693	25	23	24	25	25	25	.990	1	.9781	4
2	West Virginia	2	2753	.9660	1	1467	.9780	24	25	25	24	24	24	.970	2	.9713	3
3	Ohio State	3	2638	.9256	3	1383	.9220	23	24	23	22	21	23	.910	3	.9192	5
4	Georgia	4	2368	.8309	4	1232	.8213	21	17	22	23	20	20	.830	5	.8274	7
5	Kansas	6	2170	.7614	T-5	1161	.7740	22	22	16	19	23	21	.840	4	.7918	2
6	Virginia Tech	7	2164	.7593	T-5	1161	.7740	17	19	19	21	22	22	.810	6	.7811	8
7	LSU	5	2215	.7772	7	1134	.7560	20	21	21	20	18	18	.790	7	.7744	1
8	USC	9	2059	.7225	9	1073	.7153	18	20	13	14	16	16	.640	T-10	.6926	11
9	Oklahoma	8	2132	.7481	8	1126	.7507	14	10	15	13	13	17	.550	12	.6829	10
10	Florida	11	1757	.6165	11	898	.5987	15	15	18	17	17	14	.640	T-10	.6184	12
11	Boston College	12	1587	.5568	12	861	.5740	16	14	20	18	19	18	.720	8	.6169	14
12	Hawaii	10	1829	.6418	10	958	.6387	9	16	8	11	15	12	.470	14	.5835	15
13	Arizona State	13	1446	.5074	13	756	.5040	19	18	17	16	14	15	.660	9	.5571	6
14	Tennessee	15	1249	.4382	15	654	.4360	12	9	14	15	12	13	.510	13	.4614	18
15	Illinois	14	1254	.4400	14	674	.4493	11	13	7	9	8	9	.370	17	.4198	17
16	Clemson	18	897	.3147	17	469	.3127	7	3	10	12	11	10	.380	16	.3358	22
17	Oregon	19	716	.2512	20	316	.2107	13	5	11	8	9	7	.350	18	.2706	9
18	Wisconsin	16	911	.3196	16	493	.3287	5	12	3	4	0	2	.140	23	.2628	21
19	BYU	20	649	.2277	19	327	.2180	8	4	9	3	3	8	.230	19	.2252	25
20	Texas	17	903	.3168	18	417	.2780	6	0	4	0	0	3	.070	25	.2216	13
21	South Florida	25	249	.0874	27	100	.0667	10	0	12	10	10	11	.410	15	.1880	23
22	Virginia	23	478	.1677	T-21	271	.1807	3	2	6	6	7	4	.190	20	.1795	16
23	Cincinnati	21	512	.1796	24	146	.0973	2	6	5	2	4	6	.170	T-21	.1490	24
24	Auburn	24	402	.1411	T-21	271	.1807	4	0	1	7	6	1	.120	24	.1472	NR
25	Boise State	22	493	.1730	23	247	.1647	0	11	0	0	0	0	.000	NR	.1125	19

[bearmz]

I went back through the past 5 weeks to see how the rankings changed and see how well these BSS rankings really applied to the talent.
From 5 weeks ago:
1) OSU
2) BC
3) LSU
4) ASU
5) Ore
6) Okl
7) WV
8) Kan
9) Mizz
10) Geo
11) VT
12) Mich
13) Conn
14) Haw
15) Tx
16) Aub
17) Ala
18) SFla
19) USC
20) Fla
21) Wis
22) Boise
23) Vir
24) WF
25) Clem

I don't know about you people, but I sure would love a play-off and forget this what have you done for me lately BShitS poll to determine a Nat'l champ.
Eliminate the non conf games and insert the playoffs schedule. Who gives a Valachi's ass if LSU plays bum- F##k Egypt.

A few other notes on the BSS:

• Once again, Oklahoma is the only team in the BCS top 10 whose computer ranking also isn't in the top 10. The Sooners' average computer ranking is 12th.
And you can be sure Ohio State coaches, players and fans know that Oklahoma beat Missouri on Oct. 13 in Norman.

While strength of schedule isn't a BCS component, all six computers have a strength-of-schedule factor in their rankings.

Also of note: Hawaii (11-0) is 12th in the BCS standings this week. A non-BCS league team is guaranteed a BCS spot in two ways. One is if it finishes in the top 12; the other is if it is ranked in the top 16 and its ranking is higher than that of a conference champion that has an automatic berth. Each of the six BCS leagues has a team in the top nine.
Hawaii finishes its regular season by playing host to Washington (4-7) on Saturday night in the final regular-season game of the season in Division I-A.

No. 4 this week is Georgia, which is ranked 10 spots higher than Tennessee despite two things: 1. The Vols beat the Bulldogs in their head-to-head matchup; and 2. The Vols won the SEC East ahead of Georgia. A team that doesn't win its conference title is guaranteed an at-large spot in the BCS if it finishes in the top four in the standings.

C'mon Bowl games.

[Doc JS]

I still can't believe these ranking this year. I mean FOX must be kicking themselves for paying all that money for those TV right to air such bad schools in the championship game.

Dan,

I think this is pretty much one of those situations where you puts your money down and takes your chances...

[hhsilver]

I still can't believe these ranking this year. I mean FOX must be kicking themselves for paying all that money for those TV right to air such bad schools in the championship game.

By "bad schools" do you mean ones that haven't been part of the , let's call it , "old boy network" of the same teams for the past 20 years. I hardly consider WVU, Mizz, and Kan bad after the year they had. It's refreshing to have some new blood competing for the top spot.
I hope there is never a playoff. No other sport has so many big regular season games - in fact, a season long playoff.

[Willie Bee]

It's refreshing to have some new blood competing for the top spot. I hope there is never a playoff. No other sport has so many big regular season games - in fact, a season long playoff.

Here-here

Eliminate the non conf games...

Who would Notre Dame play? Maybe a better question is how much are you going to pay Notre Dame, how many concessions will you make to that school, to get them to conference up?

[Wheell]

College football is the only sport where you can start the season without controlling your own destiny. That is a fatal flaw in terms of fairness. We should and will see a playoff in the next 10 years.

[ShamsWoof10]

Well I know people hate when I repeat myself but oh well i got a few minutes..

IMO I believe a playoff system is being developed as we b*tch... I think at some point they will cut the schedule back down to 11 games and all the (11) BCS conferences will have 12 teams.... All will have a conference championship game... Each winner of their conference gets a playoff bid and 5 wildcard spots will be granted during the new BCS selection show they recently created...