Published 12/2/2008
by Lou Vozza
at Bleacher Report - College Football
As my regular readers know, I have been developing new system to judge the end of year BCS beauty contest.
It's a points-based system that awards a sliding scale of points for wins against ranked teams and deducts a sliding scale of points for losses against ranked teams. The higher ranked team you beat, the more points you get, and vice versa.
Points are doubled for wins on the road and an extra MOV point (for margin of victory) is awarded for dominant wins and for narrow losses, which means you get some credit for barely losing.
A full description of the how the points are awarded with examples can be found here .
Here are the records of Texas, Texas Tech and Oklahoma against ranked teams. I have included where the opponent was ranked at the time they played, whether it was a home or road game, how many points I awarded or deducted, and whether or not a MOV point was awarded or subtracted.
Texas
W Oklahoma (1) neut +4.5
W Missouri (11) home +2 (+1 MOV)
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