Posted Saturday December 01, 2012, About: Skip the Selection Committee, Use the Colley Matrix

Now, if only we could impose the conference champ requirement.

Posted Monday November 19, 2012, About: Tough

I'm impressed, UB. Excellent piece of writing. I got a good chuckle.

Although I used to love Hydrox. I thought they tasted the same as Oreos. Then again, I thought margarine was the same as butter and I thought Miracle Whip was the same as mayonnaise.

Posted Thursday June 07, 2012, About: Determining a Champion

Damn, people are actually visiting my profile page and commenting on my blog.

Hi, Norka. And thanks for the supportive comments on the playoff boards this past week.

Yes, the CC model does reduce the importance of OOC games, but to me it's a consequence I'm willing to accept. No other sport forces the finality of conference play. I would like to see CFB be the one that does.

Posted Friday January 14, 2011, About: Probability Analysis of the Head-To-Head Tie Breaker

OMG, jp, you don't know how much I ripped Andy Staples in emails this year for the exact same thing. Hold on, I think I saved one of my biting comments.

Here it is...

Blind faith in the head-to-head rule does not make you a superior pollster. Your rankings are no more "correct" than any other pollster, simply because you obeyed and put Mizzou ahead of Oklahoma, or Nevada ahead of Boise St. Try to remember that rules are simple guidelines for stupid people that can't think for themselves.

Posted Friday January 14, 2011, About: I hate the head-to-head

Thank you for reading. I'm just glad someone found it worthy.

Only the Big 10, PAC 10, and Big East decide their BCS bowl reps with tiebreakers. However, the Big 12, SEC, and ACC decide their championship game reps with tiebreakers, so the tiebreaker rules do affect BCS selection. Next year it flips a bit - the PAC 12 and Big 10 will use a championship game and the Big 12 will use a round-robin and tiebreaker rules to select the Fiesta Bowl rep. Non-AQ conferences let the bowls choose as they will.

Regarding my opinion, more people disagree with me than agree. That happens to me a lot, so I'm used to it. And your case of a 3-way tie in which one team beat both the others, I think is an even bigger travesty. That happened with UConn this year, and I think WVa would have been a smarter Orange Bowl selection.