A little known wrinkle in the BCS may get Texas to the Fiesta Bowl afterall

DarkHornet · Dec 2, 2004

islstl said:

Regarding the computer polls, if a team is not in the top 25, you use zero for 26, -1 for 27th, -2 for 28th and so on.

Pitt averages 35.25 in the computer polls and has a -.37 computer poll result.

If you didn't do it that way, how would you be able to decide who has a better BCS ranking between Syracuse and Pitt should Pitt lose this weekend. In that case, you could possibly have neither team with a single vote by the AP/Coaches and definitely neither team in the top 25 of any of the computer polls.

So you have to use negative numbers in order to correctly order teams out of the top 25 in the computer polls.

Pitt is now 30th, was 44th before they beat W. Virginia.
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Your way may make sense, but it's not the way the BCS Standings are actually calculated for official purposes. If you don't have any human votes, and you aren't 25 or higher in at least 2 computers, you don't exist.

Here are the official rankings from ESPN's website:
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/abcsports/BCSStandings

Syracuse currently has 11 points in the AP and 1 in the Coaches, so even if Pitt falls completely out of the 'Others receiveing votes' category in both polls, Syracuse isn't likely to lose their votes.

My BCS Standings page calculates it as the official rankings calculate it for all teams that have anything that qualifies them to be listed if you want to take a look at that list.

islstl · Dec 2, 2004

It's their moral imperative that they exercise such a clause.

uscpuke · Dec 2, 2004

As much as I despise Texas, they deserve to go under this scenario. I am absolutely dreading a Pitt/Utah match, but would be very intrigued by a Texas/Utah match up.

StaceyO · Dec 2, 2004

Regardless of my blasting of Texas the last couple of days, of course, I do not believe that any of the Big East teams deserve that automatic bid. And I doubt the BCS wants it, either, because the Fiesta Bowl is gonna blow.

Golden Tiger · Dec 2, 2004

AustinTXHorn said:

Even if this happens, I doubt they will use the "out" since the Big East will likely go crazy over it and cause more controversy even if it is in the original contract that everyone agreed to.
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Yeah, teams (usc) and groups (ap) have a hard time understanding a contract that is agreed to before a season starts......... :dis:

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