I've posted one person's projection of the BCS rankings -- and he does it for all teams.
They don't match what is on the ABC/ESPN/BCS Web site because the new rankings aren't out yet. Later today, I suppose we will find out of this kid knows what he is doing or if he is pulling our legs.
Anyway this person has Bowling Green 20th in the BCS after the Ball State win.
It's tantalizing to think how high the Falcons could go. I would think they could punch their way into the top 15 should they beat Northern Illinois and South Florida.
Also (I'm going by memory here):
-- If Bowling Green got into the top 12, I THINK that would be enough to be eligible to be chosen for a BCS bowl, according to the rules the BCS drew up for itself.
-- If the Falcons made it to eight (maybe six), that would enough for a BCS bowl to be FORCED to take them, according to the rules the BCS drew up for itself after Brigham Young nearly went undefeated a few years ago.
The later scenario is probably asking too much. But it will be interesting to see how high Bowling Green can go.
(Obligitory anti-weaufxing: Jeff Sagarin's latest rankings predict both NIU and South Florida will both beat Bowling Green by one or two points.)
I was going to post numbers, but the CODE command is not working for me. The guy's site:
<a href='http://www.geocities.com/rtell/' target='_blank'>http://www.geocities.com/rtell/</a>
Please forgive my Huskies if they don't roll over and die in order to get you into the top 15....
That is the problem with the Falc's mighty run--the best teams on their schedule are yet to come as it turns out. The Missouri win looked great at the time, but we now see how bad they were, plus Kansas is beneath bad. And they've yet to play the strongest teams in the conf. yet. (
Oh, be quiet Bobs! You're living in a fool's paradise if you think that thrashings of EMU, KSU and a throttling of Bye really mean anything. Come on back to the bottom with the rest of us. I'll shut up and publicly flog myself if you win this week.)
And speaking of beneath bad--my Flashes are next on the BG chopping block, probably without Cribbs. We scored 16 Sat with no offense, whatsoever. Bring it on BG! :crying: We can take it. Go ahead, hang a fifty on us--you ain't gettin no virgins!
HuskieDan Wrote:Please forgive my Huskies if they don't roll over and die in order to get you into the top 15....
Yeah, it's not like it's WIU or something.
axeme Wrote:That is the problem with the Falc's mighty run--the best teams on their schedule are yet to come as it turns out. The Missouri win looked great at the time, but we now see how bad they were,
I still don't think Missouri is bad. Look at their scores while in the midst of their "meat grinder" conference schedule. Playing Okla, Neb... They played those teams better than BG when they were "fresh".
But you are right, the best is yet to come, and BG needs to be healthy and sharp for the upcoming games.
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Bad relative to thinking they would be a decent Big 12 team this year. They aren't as good as projected. Not bad in terms of REALLY bad. Like Kansas, or Rutgers, or EMU, or Buffalo, or the team that beat Buffalo this week.
I do believe there are no good teams who have losing records. Maybe very mediocre would better describe them. :D
Thanks for the WIU slam against the Huskies. You have provided a great opportunity for me to point out that BGSU's SOS is barely at a 1-A level. I believe that according to the college football rankings comparison site (a composite of over 70 ratings formulas), Big Girl State's SOS stands at 112. That's out of 117 1-A teams. Also, according to the sites figures, Western Illinois, if on your schedule, would stand as the second best team you've played so far. Not to mention that South Florida would be the best and Wisconsin would be in the top four. BCS material, I don't think so. You may win out, Harris is a potent one man gang.
These two weeks leading up to the NIU-BGSU matchup will be fun assuming that BGSU will beat KSU.
Hey! Upset special!
Our 50 pt. loss to OU was just a psychological ploy leading up to this game!
OK, maybe not.
BG is eligible for the BCS at #12, but must be 6 to be selected. Thanks for the link to the BCS site, RF.
During the next round of BCS talks (late 2004), I expect that the MWC, CUSA, WAC, and MAC will colectively make progress on their goal of obtaining BCS membership. The BCS has been a success so far financially. We know the non-BCS complaints about the system. Some of the BCS schools also complain about not getting BCS game even though they are elgible because they lack the TV appeal of a Florida or a Notre Dame. So, if the BCS is a success, why not add another BCS game like the Cotton Bowl featuring another BCS at-large vs. the top non-BCS ranked conference champion? That way any school among the WAC, CUSA, MWC, and MAC could play its way into a New Year's Day bowl if undefeated, and maybe with a loss or two provided they are tops among the non-BCS.
KC
Big Dog, allow me to expound....
Per Sagarin:
SOS - BG 123, NIU 76
Tenn Tech 184 (2-6), WIU 80 (7-1 and ranked ahead of 6 BCS teams and 8 MAC teams)
Mizzou 52 (4-4), @Wisconsin 32 (6-3)
@Kansas 113 (2-7), @South Florida 49 (5-2)
WMU 95 (2-6), @ WMU 95 (2-6)
@CMU 104 (3-5), CMU 104 (3-5....49-0 whitewashing)
BSU 109 (3-5), @BSU 109 (3-5)
Ohio 119 (3-5), Kent 126 (3-5)
bye, @Miami 53 (6-3)
You've had an impressive season, but you've beaten teams (outside of our common opponents) that are largely MUCH less impressive that our opponents....granted, we lost to those first three, but don't even try to put Tennessee Tech in the same category as WIU....at least WIU is a good football team, Tenn Tech....well....they're a bad women's field hockey team.
Your schedule has not been tougher than ours, and I don't even consider that debatable at this time. The three toughest teams you will face this season are still to come.....if you win them, I'll trumpet your fabulous season and team. But there will be no bowing from this MAC fan until that time. And while it is good to have a MAC team ranked so high in the poles, NIU's goal involve winning the MAC, not getting a MAC team into the top 25.
RochesterFalcon Wrote:I was going to post numbers, but the CODE command is not working for me.
Make sure you close the tag... alot of people forget to do that.
[ c o d e ] blah blah blah blah blah [ / c o d e ]
No spaces in those tags... i did that so It didn't convert the tags.
No, the CODE tags were working in the sense that I got the box to come up.
The problem was, the text I pasted between the CODE tags was a mess and -- as far as I could tell -- not coded.
I successfully did the same trick at ay-ziggy-zoomba.com, so I don't know what the heck I did wrong.
RochesterFalcon Wrote:No, the CODE tags were working in the sense that I got the box to come up.
The problem was, the text I pasted between the CODE tags was a mess and -- as far as I could tell -- not coded.
I successfully did the same trick at ay-ziggy-zoomba.com, so I don't know what the heck I did wrong.
We understand. It's a BGSU thing!
HuskieDan Wrote:Big Dog, allow me to expound....
Per Sagarin:
SOS - BG 123, NIU 76
Tenn Tech 184 (2-6), WIU 80 (7-1 and ranked ahead of 6 BCS teams and 8 MAC teams)
Mizzou 52 (4-4), @Wisconsin 32 (6-3)
@Kansas 113 (2-7), @South Florida 49 (5-2)
WMU 95 (2-6), @ WMU 95 (2-6)
@CMU 104 (3-5), CMU 104 (3-5....49-0 whitewashing)
BSU 109 (3-5), @BSU 109 (3-5)
Ohio 119 (3-5), Kent 126 (3-5)
bye, @Miami 53 (6-3)
There are several ways of interpreting SoS, but what makes sense is to compare wins against wins and losses against losses.
BG has beat the #52 team, therefore it's reasonable to conclude that BG is above #52.
NIU has beat #53, but lost to #49 and #80.
We all agree that BG's toughest games are ahead, but BG has given no reason to conclude they aren't a top team.
One point to remember here is that by beating the $hi+ out of some teams, BGSU necessarily decreases their sos. It stands to reason that NIU will have a better SOS, because they have handed away 3 wins to their opposition, big sue has handed out none. And especially not to a 1aa team. yuck.
the problem appears to be that even in "code" mode where it counts spaces as characters, it doesn't allot the exact same amount of space to every character/space -- making for some weird alignments.
It can be "fixed" by using space bar in what you pasted to get the spacing right.
[code:1]
Yes, that's the issue, Georgia.
The problem, obviously, is that CODE doesn't produce monospaced fonts. Am I being to harsh in suggesting that CODE is then useless?
I mean, I'm not sticking spaces in to even things out. That's ridiculous. That defeats the purpose.
I tried changing to the Couier font, but that didn't seem to work perfectly. I tried both Courier and CODE tags, but CODE seems to render Courier useless.
I'm giving up.
CarolinaHerdOn Wrote:One point to remember here is that by beating the $hi+ out of some teams, BGSU necessarily decreases their sos. It stands to reason that NIU will have a better SOS, because they have handed away 3 wins to their opposition, big sue has handed out none. And especially not to a 1aa team. yuck.
Also remember that NIU has BUGS on their schedule too. Huskies schedule is certainly stronger because they are going to play Bowling Green. I doubt that NIU helps BG's schedule as much. Now if BUGS could play with themselves then they could improve their schedule immensely but oddly enough they play with themselves all the time and it hasn't helped in the past.
MUther Wrote:CarolinaHerdOn Wrote:One point to remember here is that by beating the $hi+ out of some teams, BGSU necessarily decreases their sos. It stands to reason that NIU will have a better SOS, because they have handed away 3 wins to their opposition, big sue has handed out none. And especially not to a 1aa team. yuck.
Also remember that NIU has BUGS on their schedule too. Huskies schedule is certainly stronger because they are going to play Bowling Green. I doubt that NIU helps BG's schedule as much. Now if BUGS could play with themselves then they could improve their schedule immensely but oddly enough they play with themselves all the time and it hasn't helped in the past.
Yes, but we have yet to play BG and thus it does not count in our SOS yet, and neither has BG played us yet so we have not dragged down their SOS.
Even after losing 3 in a row, I love this team because they bust their butts despite not having all the talent in the world, are exciting as hell to watch and I haven't once had to say that "they maybe lost their intensity and sleep walked through a game." And if you want to tell me that Wisc, USF, Wake and WIU are worse than Mizzou, Kansas, Tennesse Tech and USF (who BG still has yet to play), then you're just plain stoned.