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Message: [QUOTE="OttoinGrotto, post: 5243997, member: 297"] I keep bringing this up in other threads, and people keep telling me I'm wrong, but my cohort ranking concept solves for this. If any of you posters haven't yet witnessed my genius, the cohort concept is very simple - teams cannot be ranked lower than a team that has more losses than they do, and teams are only ranked relative to teams that have an equal number of losses.* Also, if teams happen to play each other, that result matters a lot. Conference affiliation and pre-season ranking biases evaporate. So let's look at the rankings and how they would work using the cohort ranking system: 1. Oregon - best undefeated resume, has the most wins 2. Indiana - better undefeated resume than Army, 1 more win than Army, 1 fewer than Oregon 3. Army - last remaining unbeaten to rank 4. Ohio St. - best loss among 1 loss teams with solid wins 5. Boise St. - shares best loss among 1 loss teams, has some quality wins 6. Texas - next best loss among 1 loss teams with solid wins 7. BYU - bad loss among 1 loss teams but has head to head over SMU 8. SMU - only loss is to BYU just ahead of them, mehish wins 9. Miami - bad loss, mehish wins 10. Notre Dame - slightly worse loss, mehish wins 11. Penn St. - respectable loss but wins are all crap, also I'll see all of these enablers of child abuse in Hell 12. Pick an 8-2 SEC team I guess, whatever Now, without using a hypothetical or applying some unknown criteria to benefit a team that you aren't applying to another, or using something imaginary like a betting line, or drawing on something entirely subjective like pre-season ranking, or giving unearned weight to conference affiliation,tell me the how the above is wrong. You cain't. You cain't. And I know people are crapping their pants saying Army is too high, but it. Does. Not. Matter. They've accomplished what only two other teams have, keeping a spotless record. That matters. And if they aren't all that, we'll find out before the season ends. And if they do run the table... they earned their spot. Fight me. *With the exception of conference championship games. Conference championships cannot count against a program, they only count in favor of a program. This is so teams don't get credit for avoiding a potential loss from a conference championship. [/QUOTE]

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