Pac-10 Rankings (Or an Experiment With a Computer Ratings System)

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    Not me. In any other sport every team loses, except in one rare case in the NFL and a few in college basketball. Only in college football does every single game matter, because only 2 out of 120 teams get to play one game for a championship. Even after a complete NFL season with four times fewer teams than in college, all with imperfect records, do they still pick 12 teams to fight each other for the Super Bowl. If there were a 12 team playoff in place in college football, you could be a little imperfect and get in to the post-season. We still have one-loss teams getting into the championship game, but usually after all the other BCS-schools have lost. Although it could theoretically happen, no one-loss school has ever advanced over an undefeated BCS-school. Only one undefeated BCS-school was left out, only because the two that went ahead were also undefeated BCS-schools. So the demand for perfection is high, and in other sports leagues it might be considered unfairly high.
     

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