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Old 11-12-2012, 06:14 PM
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Originally Posted by pigfarmer View Post
But the computers are basing everything off of Human rankings, and 2/3 is human polls.

For instance: How the hell is Ohio State not ranked above Alabama in the AP poll? And I hate Ohio State! (I realize the AP doesn't go into the BCS, but this bias works through the other polls as well, IMO).
imo the biggest reason is because they aren't eligible for anything and voters are not gonna give credit to a team that can't factor into postseason play...

if the computers were basing if off the human polls, wouldn't they completely resemble the polls then? i don't know for sure, but i think there are other factors in the computer rankings because each formula for each computer ranking is different, hence so many and the average is taken for the bcs poll
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