I hear people trash the computer rankings used by the BCS all the time. They say the computers "hate" the Wisconsin Badgers or the computers "love" Oklahoma State. People say things like, "Well, our team would be ranked higher, but the computers are holding us down." From the media I consume and the people I talk to, I'd say most people distrust the computer rankings and would be happier if they were removed from the BCS rankings completely. I totally disagree. In fact, I believe the human polls should be removed from the BCS formula and only the computer rankings should be used. I'd argue that the computer rankings are the only fair way we have to sort these teams out. Please, read the methodology used by Richard Billingsley in his Billingsley Report (one of the six computer rankings used by the BCS) and tell me it doesn't make complete sense. Moreover, tell me that the coaches polled each week put even 1/100th of that kind of ...
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