For all the criticism of the BCS, there are more than a few things they do right.
One is that they refrain from ranking football teams until well into the season. BCS rankings come out on October 19th this season. Two more weeks of overrated teams exposing themselves and we'll have a pretty good grasp of this year’s college football reality.
Let me tell you what wasn't reality....ranking Tennessee....or West Virginia....or Arizona State.
That being said, the completely unbiased opinion of BCS computer algorithms only comprises 1/3 of the ingredients required to make BCS soup, the other two thirds is human opinion.
As I illustrated above with a #18 pre-season Tennessee team, human opinion is, almost by definition, flawed.
Business Marketing school teaches that customer perception is, in fact, reality as it relates to a product or service. It also only takes hearing a false statement 18 times from a reputable source in order to make it be perceived as true.
I just made that up. I didn't go to marketing school.
Read it seventeen more times though and you'll probably quote it in your next debate.
Unless you don't find me to be a credible source. I did just lie to you in order to support my opinion.
Back to the point.
ESPN has recently published a mock BCS ranking based on the two polls and five of the six computer models used by the BCS.
Some examples of differences that occur between this projection and current AP rankings are that Vanderbilt is at #8 and Utah is ranked #9.
Question:
What do Vanderbilt and Utah have in common that is exclusive of the other top 10 teams?
Answer:
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