EDSBS LIVE/BLOGTOBERFEST MUTANT BABY EDITION
EDSBS —
... Jeff Sagarin continues to devour mushrooms without regard for their side effects, something providing Doc Saturday further material to wonder what the hell is going on with the BCS. This will all make so much more sense in two weeks, we promise. (Because we will have time to edit memory and reboot. The human brain is amazing.) ...
JMU #1 In FCS Bracket
RealClearSports - Blog —
If you'll please allow a small, self-gratifying post: JMU earned the #1 seed in the FCS playoffs (Appalachian State is #2). Games begin this Saturday.
Go Dukes.
More JMU love: they're the first ever I-AA/FCS team to earn points in a BCS poll.
JAMES MADISON IN THE TOP 25?
NBC Sports - College Football Talk —
... James Madison is pretty good, with a 10-1 record. But that one loss should tell us everything we need to know about what kind of team James Madison is, compared to even halfway decent Division I-A teams: The loss was a 31-7 pounding at the hands of Duke. So, just so we’re clear: James Madison is 10-0 in I-AA games, but lost badly against a bad I-A team. So it’s rather shocking to see that the Sagarin computer rating — one of the computer ratings that counts toward the BCS standings — ranks James Madison as the No. 24 team in the country . No, not the No. 24 I-AA team. The No. ...
JMU Football Is Ranked Higher Than LSU
Mr. Irrelevant —
... have ranked below the No. 33 Dukes: And that’s not including West Virginia, Pitt, Northwestern, Wake Forest and others that we’ve listed before. It’s cute and all, but it doesn’t have an actual bearing on anything, right? JMU is a I-AA/FCS team, and that division has its own playoff, so being No. 1 in I-AA is all that really matters and being No. 33 in Sagarin doesn’t matter one … wait, what’s that? Dr. Saturday reports (emphasis added):“The esteemed Jeff Sagarin’s submission to the BCS this week ranks the Dukes No. 24, making the James Madison — 31-7 loser to Duke in their ...
James Madison Ranked In The Top 25 Of The Sagarin Computer Rating, Which Helps Determine BCS Rankings
FanIQ Blog —
All right, I've officially had it with the BCS. And so should all of you after you hear this news. It seems this week that James Madison, a I-AA school that is having a fine season (they're 10-1) somehow wound up in the nation's top 25 rankings in the Sagarin computer ratings. Just so you know, the Sagarin computer rating is not some random rating, it's one of the computer ratings that counts towards the BCS standings. James Madison is ranked No. 24. And that's not in I-AA rankings, but I-A rankings. ...
Nitt Picks Is Saying 'Yeah!'
Black Shoe Diaries —
... justified in excluding it from the formula. It allows the computers to come up with much more logical results, but the problem of excluding them is replaced with the problem of understanding them. Coaches feel the need to take unnecessary end zone shots after the opponent has already put in the second string defense, all to make the victory a +28 instead of +21. When voters see these things they often are able to put them in context, but a computer will not.
Dr. Saturday expands later:
[Computers are] forced to throw out margin ...
