lol lets just say if you are relying on BCS rankings to back you up in an argument... then you are fighting a losing battle
Guess I could have worded that better.. I meant just COMPUTER rankings is being all he acknowledges. the BCS rankings have the Ducks as #2.
LOL. And to be honest, they deserved 8th ranking since the computers are programmed to take in an entire season as a whole (which is the only time the BCS functionally gets used for the final championship game). So the computers are pretending the season was completed as of today and Oregon scheduled patsies for half of their season like New Mexico, Tennessee, Portland State, Washington State, etc.). Obivously after this week when four higher ranked computer teams play each other, two will fall and move Oregon up to 6th by default. Then add in the fact that BSU is playing another Jr College and Oregon played a team that beat Texas, I'm guessing Oregon will shoot up into 5th by default no matter if BSU wins. I'd guess a couple other of the sub-computers will also begin adjusting as we get into conference play as well. So it is highly likely that Oregon moves up to around #4 when this weekend ends (which of course will put them #1 in the BCS by next week). Bookmark it if you'd like.
but still if you are using the BCS to determine if a team is a top team or not.. its still probably a losing argument.
Sorry, that's sort of insider terminology. The if you want the real answer, it's the individual computer rankings that go into the "computer" ranking. So in this case the blended average of the six sub-computer rankings is 8th place as the OP mentioned. That comes from being an average of a .710 on a 1.000 scale with 1.000 being first in all six sub-computer rankings (after you throw out the best and worst rankings). If Oregon can obtain an overall ranking of just 0.800, they will then move ahead of Oklahoma. Therefore what I was saying was that they will automatically gain 2 spots this week over the losers of LSU/Auburn and Oklahoma/Missouri as nearly all of the individual "sub computer" rankings have those four schools ahead of Oregon in Oregon's four computer rankings that will count. This will automatically push Oregon from .710 to .790 by default. As I mentioned, they only need to get to .800. With Utah and TCU playing MWC teams, their computer rankings will begin to right-size this week and Oregon's will go up playing a Pac-10 team that beat Texas. So we'll likely see Oregon around .840 at worst and thus in the #1 BCS position come next Monday. Any questions?
*Modified computer rankings. Some of those computer raters have "real rankings" on the side because the BCS refuses to use margin of victory. In some cases, like Massey's Ratings, his BCS formula has Oregon #8, but his real rankings have them #1.
