Colley Matrix allows you to add up to 5 games to the current standing to create what if scenarios. My wish list is as follows: Colorado beats UT, UCLA beats USC, Mich St. beats Penn St., and LSU beats Arkansas and Georgia in the SEC Championship. The problem is LSU only moves up from 8 to 5 and Texas/USC remain 1&2. The complete list is as follows: Current: Texas, USC, Penn St, Va Tech, Oregon, Ohio St, Miami, LSU Projected: Texas, USC, Va Tech, Penn St, LSU, So this suggests even if USC and Texas both lose their final game, they play in the national championship. Oh what I would pay to see this happen. Sounds like a wonderful system.
These computer rankings are just ridiculous... the sagarin poll has LSU behind 3 loss Michigan and Minnesota teams..
I hope that none of you complaining about the computer rankings were the same ones praising the computers in 2003. Sometimes it works in your favor, sometimes it doesn't. BTW, LSU is 8th in Sagarin, ahead of both Michigan and Minnesota.
Not so fast there Hornet. In 2003, the human polls figured in equally. Since USC got screwed, they upped the human weights to give a push to the popular choice.
I'm missing how that's relevant to my point. My point is that in 2003, everyone was pushing the importance of computer polls because it proved our SOS superiority. Now, people are complaining about the computer polls, because this year it happens to work against LSU. You can't have it both ways. I personally still think the computers are an important part of the formula that provides some balance. I'm not going to discount their importance simply because the cards didn't fall right for LSU this year. We still have an outside chance at Pasadena, but it will be due to two of the top 3 losing, not something that's in our control. If we don't make it this year, so be it. Sometimes it works out (2003), sometimes it doesn't.
The computers overall helped LSU in 2003 but specifically Sagarin's poll screwed LSU in 03, just look at the BCS ratings from that year and he will have us a lot lower than the other computers, but since the BCS discounts the highest and lowest score, i believe, it didnt' hurt us that bad
