2012 - Official College Football Random Thoughts thread

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REPORTS OUT OF BATON ROUGE THAT LSU HEAD COACH LES MILES HAD A "FRANK" TALK WITH QB METTENBERGER














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The three oldest coaches in FBS are collectively 17-0:

Bill Snyder, 73, Kansas State Wildcats (5-0)
Frank Solich, 68, Ohio Bobcats (6-0)
Steve Spurrier, 67, South Carolina Gamecocks (6-0)
 
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If the Irish win on Saturday, be prepared for some craziness when the first BCS Standings are announced:

Forde-Yard Dash: Computers crunching funny numbers with first BCS poll on its way - Yahoo! Sports

BCS STANDINGS ARE COMING. SO IS THE OUTRAGE.

On Sunday, America's least-popular sports entity this side of the NFL replacement refs makes its triumphant return. The first Bowl Championship Series standings will be released. The coast-to-coast complaining will follow immediately thereafter, because there is widespread divergence between the voters and the computers.

Despite the overwhelming belief among human voters that Alabama is the best team in America and Oregon is No. 2, the computers aren't buying it. At least not yet. The Dash looked at five of the six rankings that are used by the BCS – Wolfe doesn't release its first public rankings until Sunday – and four different teams are ranked No. 1: Alabama (Sagarin), Florida (Anderson & Hester), Oregon (Billingsley) and Notre Dame (Colley and Massey).

That's right, Notre Dame is first in more computer formulas than Alabama. Don't tell Harvey Updyke or he's liable to graffiti the Golden Dome. And Oregon is only ranked higher than sixth by Billingsley.

A lot can change this weekend, but as of right now the computers rank the top five this way (throwing out the high and low ratings for each team, per the BCS formula):

Florida (1). Difference from the USA Today coaches poll: plus-five spots. The microchips are impressed by the four Southeastern Conference victories – well, at least by three of them. Beating Kentucky probably doesn't do much for the strength of schedule.

Notre Dame (2). Difference from the USA Today coaches poll: plus-five spots. The Fighting Irish benefit from having played four major-conference opponents – if indeed the Big Ten counts as a major conference in 2012. And they could conceivably move up to the computer top spot with a victory over highly ranked Stanford on Saturday.

South Carolina (3). Difference from the USA Today coaches poll: none. The Gamecocks could leapfrog the Irish and the Gators with a computer-pleasing victory at LSU on Saturday.

West Virginia (4). Difference from the USA Today coaches poll: none. Beating Texas on the road was a big boost.

Alabama (5). Difference from the USA Today coaches poll: minus-four spots. The two big September games turned out to be blowouts of disappointing teams – Michigan and Arkansas – and the rest of the schedule has been easy.

Of course, there are major problems with releasing the aggregate computer rankings halfway through the season. Schedules are wildly divergent and hard to compare, and most of the season's biggest games are still to be played. So they're judging incomplete data – and those incomplete results will influence human voters as well.

Especially when the subject is Hot Button U., also known as Notre Dame. If the Irish are 6-0 Sunday and ranked No. 1 by the computers, look for human voters to either boost the Irish to get in line with the computers – or to trap-door them in a backlash against what many perceived to be a terminally overrated program. Either way, the early release of data will have the unintended consequence of influencing the polls that count for two-thirds of the BCS formula.

The other problem with the computer rankings is the BCS-mandated removal of margin of victory. While it should certainly matter that Alabama drilled Michigan by 27 points and Notre Dame beat the Wolverines by only seven, the Crimson Tide won’t get additional computer credit for a blowout.

The human vote should still establish Alabama as the BCS No. 1 on Sunday, provided the Tide takes care of banged up Missouri. But who is No. 2 – which is what really matters – will be very interesting. And very controversial. Stay tuned.
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And the BCS Standings Thread is mine, so hands off :merchant:
 
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Pachall enters rehab officially done for the year, thanks for screwing over tcu Casey
 
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