Big East - What Happens Next Year

[Mr. Wednesday]

Originally Posted by cartman

Yep, since 2/3 of the poll is comprised of human voters, who had Louisville ranked at #3 when they lost.

That's misleading... the result of the weight is that if the two disagree within one place, the polls will carry, but if the disagreement is larger than that, the computers will have an effect.

e.g. if Louisville were voted #2, but the computers had them #7 and their #2 was the #3 in the polls, the #3 in the polls would be the #2 in the BCS, and Louisville would be down to third or fourth.

[SFL Cat]

Originally Posted by st.cronin

My own personal rankings of the conferences this year:

Pac 10
Big 10
Big East
ACC
Big 12
Mountain West
WAC
MAC
CUSA
Sun Belt
SEC

PAC 10 no. 1?

In what? Women's volleyball?

[ISiddiqui]

Originally Posted by Logan

Louisville has apparently lost the commitment of Matt Simms, Phil's other kid. USF might be his destination.

USF? But why? Even without Petrino, I'd take Louisville over USF, especially with Groethe as the QB there.

[cartman]

Originally Posted by Mr. Wednesday

That's misleading... the result of the weight is that if the two disagree within one place, the polls will carry, but if the disagreement is larger than that, the computers will have an effect.

e.g. if Louisville were voted #2, but the computers had them #7 and their #2 was the #3 in the polls, the #3 in the polls would be the #2 in the BCS, and Louisville would be down to third or fourth.

Not necessarily. The human polls are weighted by % of total points possible in the poll, whereas the computers are strictly by the numerical position. Take into account the final poll, where Florida was #2 and Michigan was #3. But their vote totals were almost even, so it actually worked out that they were at #2.51 and #2.49, more or less, in the human polls. In the computer polls, it is absolute.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Fair warning: the writer of this column was not a poll voter this season.
But I suspect he isn't going to be horribly far off from what the pre-season poll looks like in the fall ... except that he wrote the column before tonight's national championship game.

http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/sha...ting_next.html
1. USC
2. WVU
3. Oklahoma
4. Ohio State
5. Florida
6. LSU
7. Texas
8. Michigan
9. Arkansas
10. Va Tech
11. Louisville
12. Wake Forest
13. Wisconsin
14. Auburn
15. Nebraska
16. Georgia
17. Tennessee
18. Rutgers
19. South Carolina
20. FSU
21. Notre Dame
22. Texas A&M
23. TCU
24. Boise State
25. Oklahoma State