No one knows exactly how the computer polls work. The formulae are protected from everyone, including the BCS (sounds like something a crooked politician cooked up). But I have read that team names do not appear, just the data associated with each week's opponent. In that case, the computer would see each game as a separate game against an opponent with exactly the same stats. They would get credit for both wins, as they should...
Boise actually beat 6 teams that played in bowl games and four of those won their bowl game. Their schedule strength was rated as high as ours was this year.
That shows a major flaw in the way they are calculating strength of schedule. I'd sure like to take our chances against this slate:
That is what all of the USC homers said when we were #1 and they were claiming that they should be #1. They didn't play a good game against Oregon State so it should not have counted.
Unfortunately, I don't have the money to have a Bama Room and Boise Room. The crimson wins out.Do you have ugly blue carpets in your home?
Well we have traveled to Hawaii so that is across the country (and some water too
). We have also traveled to Norman OK, and Los Angeles, CA in the last several years. We also don't have to travel across the country since there are lots of top programs in the Southeast as compared to say the Northwest. We played FSU and Clemson on the road the last two years. You may say they aren't that good but they seemed good when we scheduled them, kind of like Michigan huh? We will be traveling to Happy Valley in 2 years to resume a traditional series with Penn St. So while we do play plenty of schools with sketchy resumes, we have played good teams away from home and will continue in the future. Heck some of those sketchy schools have beaten us! Remember Northern Illinios, Central Florida, or (shudders) Lousiana-Monroe :eek2: Hopefully you will see us traveling cross country next year to the Rose Bowl!
To state this as fact in a sport in which USC lost to Oregon State, Florida lost to Ole Miss, and Texas lost to Texas Tech is just silly. Any team can lose on any given day - especially to a team as good as Utah. I am not saying that they would beat them, but they could...
You are assuming the talent difference between those teams and Utah is in the same realm of those games that went the other way. It should be clear to you that I don't think their talent is that comparable... even with records being what they are. Again, I'm not trying to minimize their achievements, but it's one thing to beat teams in a regular season and doing it in the bowl season when marbles are on the line... which is where those teams I noted would be hooking up with the Utes.
I get your argument - big teams get up for big games - but the ball doesn't always bounce the way that you expect it to...
Utah has regularly been told they couldn't or won't beat (insert team). A Pete Carroll coached and Carson Palmer lead USC team is in our wake. Who knows if Texas would be if they hadn't backed out of the home and home contract we had with them. I guess playing us would be too risky to their title hopes so they cancelled, I believe that would have started this year but I could be off on my dates.
There are some tough games in there but come on, AZ St, Tenn, Kentucky, Vanderbilt? GT is also recently in our rearview. They were top 20 at the time and we were at the end of a rebuilding year with a second string QB taking over just the game before. That game was a sound beat down as well... even though they had a fantastic WR that was supposed to shred us.
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no. they did not beat Bama at full strength. IMO Florida is the number 1 team and will prove it Thursday
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