A defense of the Bowl Championship Series

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  1. Turbotigerfan

    Turbotigerfan Founding Member

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    I thought you guys might get a kick out of this.

    Tocqueville and College Football

    AS A POLITICAL SCIENCE professor who created one of the computer rankings that determine which two college football teams will meet in the Bowl Championship Series (BCS), I find the controversy over the rankings mirrors American political culture. Indeed, it shows American character is still as Alexis de Tocqueville described it: We swing on a pendulum with excessive deference to popular opinion at one extreme, excessive deference to authoritative rule at the other. On the one hand, Americans embrace direct democracy; on the other, they embrace rule by "experts," whether in the bureaucracy or on the Supreme Court. The moderate middle ground of representative government is often distrusted.

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    Turbotigerfan, Dec 20, 2003
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  2. ramah

    ramah Founding Member

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    it werks fer Heisman trophies ... too
     
    ramah, Dec 20, 2003
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  3. PrideMtnSooner

    PrideMtnSooner Freshman

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    It really can't work both ways though can it?

    I mean the computers picked OU/LSU and the humans picked White.
     
    PrideMtnSooner, Dec 20, 2003
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  4. Bengal B

    Bengal B Founding Member

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    Let Jason White have his Heisman. Larry Fitzgerald and Eli Manning are going to be making a lot more money than White At least White has his trophy to put on top of his TV when he watched them on Sunday afternoons.
     
    Bengal B, Dec 20, 2003
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