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BCS - Not If You Lose, It's When You Lose
BCS - Not If You Lose, It's When You Lose
With the many, many flaws of the BCS scoring system, the one that really sticks out to me is how much the human element is taken into account with the polling formula. And, as we see year after year, when it comes to human rankings, it does not matter if you lose a game, it matters when you lose a game.
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