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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell
Those rankings are flawed in 2 ways. #1. is it favors the conferences with more teams because #2 It is basing it ratings on all non conference games including 1 AA teams. Therefore a conference with 12 teams will have 6 to 8 more easy wins than the 10 team conferences. And if you are such a big beliver in this system then why are you complaining about it's #1 and #2 ranked teams possibly meeting for the National Championship?
BTW-Missouri is not in the Big Ten
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It is factoring in the weakness of the wins over 1AA teams as well to the strength of schedule so it evens out. The one way it is flawed is that to remain a component of the BCS they forced Massey to remove margin of victory from his ratings. I have a feeling his real ratings would not have those teams 1 vs 2. You can really see the difference in the Sagarin where the Rating is what he is required to publish by the BCS while the Pure Points Predictor is actually the best predictor of future games. Interestingly for Pure Points he has Oklahoma at #1 and Florida at #2 which I don't agree with as a national championship game but I could easily see being the finals of a 16 team tournament. Missouri is actually #9 in the Pure Points Predictor.
http://www.kiva.net/~jsagarin/sports/cfsend.htm
I'm already assuming Missouri to lose to Oklahoma next week so they are irrelevant in the national championship picture.