What's that? You say the BCS can't really name college football's best team? Well, duh. With a playoff finally on the horizon, The Mag turned to people smarter than we are to examine the last 14 years and determine which program really has emerged as No. 1 in the BCS era. Using our Ultimate Standings as a guide, Jeff Phillips, principal at the Parthenon Group and a recent MIT Sloan MBA grad, along with Tyler Williams, an MIT Ph.D. candidate in economics, created three major categories of FBS success, then split them into nine factors (see below). For each, they used data since 1998 (unless noted) to rank every team against its 119 FBS competitors, then weighted those results with emphasis on title track and player success, the categories that most reflect an established winning program.The criteria was:
- Title track(Natl titles, BCS bowl bids and wins,conf. ships, and finish in the polls
- Head Coach (tenure,winning%,avg turnover margin,avg penalties a game)
- Strength of schedule
- Academics
- Recruiting (total espn 150 signees since 2007)
- Player Success (NFL picks weighted by round, heisman winners)
- Stadium Edge (sportsnation poll results for game experience, home win %, differential between home and road win %)
- Football revenue
- NCAA violations since 1998
they always tryin to come up with useless ass criteria on they lil polls.....IT'S fukkIN FOOTBALL
