USF #61 L'ville #4

[mutt]

Thats not the rankings, that's the score for this Saturday.

USF- 61        L'ville- 4    (Actually 3 pts.    ...hey anything is possible with the BULLS !!!)

[ChiTownBull]

for starters, yes

then look at Colorado, Minnesota, UCLA, Texas Tech, OSU, Mich. St., ND, BC, Clemson, Iowa St, Kentucky, etc

polls in general are garbage....

why is ND ranked ahead of msu when they were beaten at home by msu?

nd beat pitt....oooohhh aaahhhh

nd beat a suspect michigan team....

ut beat uab by 1 td at home and lost in the swamp to a team that beat up on nobodies week 1 and 2

IMO it is hard to say any polls are very accurate at this stage of the game.

[namuh-bull]

I think the strength of schedule in that poll is for the games already played.  

[Ricky the Bull]

Instead of looking at one ranking site, here is one that gives lists all of them and ranks the team based on the average ranking.

http://www.mratings.com/cf/compare.htm

[Guest]

I think the strength of schedule in that poll is for the games already played.  

Almost every poll does their SOS on opponents you have already played...

The BCS Strength of Schedule is calculated as follows:

The SOS is a weighted average of 2/3 the winning percentage of a team's opponents and 1/3 the winning percentage of the opponent's opponents.

Thus SOS = 2/3*(OpW)/(OpW+OpL) + 1/3*(OpOpW)/(OpOpW + OpOpL) where:

OpW is the sum of all opponents wins minus the number of losses by the team in question minus the number of wins over Div1AA teams.

OpL is the sum of all opponents losses minus the number of wins by the team in question.

OpOpW is the sum of all opponents wins minus the number of losses by the team in question minus the number of wins over Div1AA teams.

OpOpL is the sum of all opponents losses minus the number of wins by the team in question.

A team's win over an opponent does not get added into the sum of its opponents losses and vise versa. Wins over Div1AA teams do not count but losses do. Victories by Div1AA teams over other Div1AA teams are also discarded but the losses count. Games between Div1AA teams and DivII teams are discarded altogether.

http://www.geocities.com/rtell/FAQ.html

[USFMikeB]

Correct me if I'm wrong, bit I thought that the BCS actually took SOS out of the equation, and therefore there is no official BCS SOS formula...