The 2011 week 08 unbiased college football rankings following week 07. Follow how the UNBSD rankings have changed after the final 2010 rankings from ESPN or on rivals.com . If you get the method, then you get the madness. This eliminates the biases by only using results on the field (that’s why they play the games). You can also use the BCS rankings for comparison.
1 Stanford 6-0 beat Washing St, next Washington @ home
2 Oklahoma 6-0 beat Kansas, next Texas Tech @ home
3 Boise State 6-0 beat Colorado St, next Air Force @ home
4 Wisconsin 6-0 beat Indians, next @ Michigan St
5 LSU 7-0 beat beat Tennessee, next Auburn @ home
6 Alabama 7-0 beat Mississippi, next Tennessee @ home
7 Oklahoma State 6-0 beat Texas, next @ Missouri
8 Kansas State 6-0 beat Texas Tech, next @ Kansas
9 Clemson 7-0 beat Maryland, next North Carolina @ home
10 Houston 6-0 DNP, next Marshall @ home
11 Georgia Tech 6-1 (lost @ Virginia 21-24), next @ Miami (FL)
12 Rutgers 5-1 (lost @ North Carolina 22-24), beat Navy, next @ Louisville
13 Southern Miss 5-1 (lost @ Marshall 20-26), DNP, next SMU @ home
14 Oregon 5-1 (lost LSU neutral site 27-40), beat Arizona St, next @ Colorado
15 South Carolina 6-1 (lost Auburn @ home 13-16), beat Missip St, next DNP
16 Illinois 6-1 lost Ohio State @ home 7-17, next @ Purdue
17 Virginia Tech 6-1 (lost Clemson @ home 3-23), beat Wake Forest, next Boston College @ home
18 Michigan St 5-1 (lost @ Notre Dame 13-31), beat Michigan, next Wisconsin @ home
19 Michigan 6-1 lost @ Michigan St 14-28, next DNP
19 Cincinnati 5-1 (lost @ Tennessee 23-45), beat Louisville, next @ South Florida
20 Penn State 6-1 (lost Alabama @ home 11-27), beat Purdue, next @ Northwestern
21 West Virginia 5-1 (lost LSU @ home 21-47), DNP, next @ Syracuse
22 Arkansas 5-1 (lost @ Alabama 14-38), DNP, next @ Mississippi
23 SMU 5-1 (lost @ Texas A&M 14-46), beat UCF, next @ Southern Miss
24 Louisiana-Lafayette 6-1 (lost @ Oklahoma State 34-61), beat Noth Texas, next @ Western Kentucky
25 Washington 5-1 (lost @ Nebraska 38-51), beat Colorado, next @ Stanford
In the unbiased rankings, LSU and Alabama are 5 and 6 instead of 1 and 2 in the BCS. Since they will be playing each other, why put them at the top when other teams started higher in the final rankings from last year? If the BCS is simply a projection of how the teams will look at the end of the year, why not give Stanford and Boise State the benefit of the doubt just like Oklahoma or LSU?
Of course Houston is only 19 in the BCS due to the biases but 10 in the unbiased rankings due to the fact the Cougars are undefeated. What, they wouldn’t be competitive in any other league? What really needs to happen is to create at least 2 more divisions in college football–so the top 50 teams are only playing each other and the same for the cellar dwellers. New Mexico could be in the same football division as Indiana, Memphis, Kentucky, and Florida Atlantic and feel like they are accomplishing something each season. This way the top schools get more focused games and the regular season does become more like a playoff.
If you start to look at NCAA football like the pros, you’re eyes get opened to one of the great mismanaged mysteries of our time. The big market teams (AQ schools) are able to exclude the small market teams (non-AQ). The players are considered amatures so that they cannot collect any of the MILLIONS of dollars that they generate–meanwhile the coaches and tv networks and universities collect MILLIONS of dollars because THEY are professionals. What would happen if the college-athletes decided to strike? Oh of course the students cannot do that because the monopoly holds them in check under the umbrella of amatureism.
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