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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 192971, member: 289"] This morning Bud and the Manchild were talking about who Syracuse should schedule to fill it’s football schedule. There was talk they could get Boise State or Oklahoma or Arkansas. But maybe they should settle for another FCS team. One guy said “FCS teams sh0ould count as half-wins and if you lose to them it should count twice. It got me to thinking that perhaps there could be a system for granting points for wins based on who you beat. I tried something like this a couple years ago but the weakness of the system is that you couldn’t re0assess a victory in light of subsequent events. How about if you had a power ranking system that would rank the teams each week and then you got points based on the ranking of each team. The amount of points could be adjusted when new rankings came out. Jeff Sagarin ranks all FBS and FCS teams together on a weekly basis. There are 246 of them. What if you got 246 points for beating the #1 team, 245 for #2, etc. and then you totaled the points for the teams you’d beaten/ It could be adjusted as new rankings came out, (if you wanted to use something other than Sagarin or a compilation of similar rankings, fine, as long as you had rankings for all Division 1- FBS and FCS teams. As far as I know FBS teams don’t play Division II teams.) Here is Alabama in 2011-2012, with the final Sagarin ranking to the left and the resulting points to the right. ALABAMA 116 Kent State 131 28 Penn State 219 121 North Texas 125 6 Arkansas 240 29 Florida 217 42 Vanderbilt 204 103 Mississippi 143 50 Tennessee 196 2 LSU 0 (lost) 31 Mississippi St 215 81 Ga. Southern 165 33 Auburn 214 2 LSU 245 Total points 2314 (2069 at the end of the regular season) Here’s LSU: 5 Oregon 242 167 NW Louisiana 80 31 Mississippi St 216 22 West Virginia 225 85 Kentucky 162 29 Florida 218 50 Tennessee 197 33 Auburn 214 1 Alabama 246 101 W Kentucky 146 103 Mississippi 144 6 Arkansas 241 21 Georgia 226 1 Alabama 0 (lost) Total Points 2557 OKLAHOMA STATE 82 La Lafayette 165 64 Arizona 183 35 Tulsa 212 14 Texas A&M 233 91 Kansas 156 17 Texas 230 16 Missouri 231 13 Baylor 234 19 Kansas State 228 53 Texas Tech 194 43 Iowa State 0 (lost) 4 Oklahoma 243 7 Stanford 240 Total Points 2549 (2309 in regular season) STANFORD also had one regular season loss 96 San Jose St 151 113 Duke 134 64 Arizona 183 66 UCLA 181 107 Colorado 140 83 Washington St 164 44 Washington 203 12 USC 235 87 Oregon State 160 5 Oregon 0 (lost) 38 California 209 26 Notre Dame 221 3 Oklahoma St 0 (lost) Total Points 1981 BOISE STATE 21 Georgia 226 40 Toledo 207 35 Tulsa 212 60 Nevada-Reno 187 105 Fresno St 142 142 Colorado St 105 72 Air Force 175 155 UNLV 92 20 TCU 0 (lost) 70 San Diego St 177 84 Wyoming 163 175 New Mexico 72 41 Arizona State 206 Total Points: 1964 (1758 in the regular season) HOUSTON 66 UCLA 181 121 North Texas 126 48 Louisiana Tech 199 208 Georgia State 39 92 UTEP 155 93 E. Carolina 154 79 Marshall 168 89 Rice 158 152 UAB 95 171 Tulane 76 51 SMU 196 35 Tulsa 212 24 So. Mississippi 0 (lost) 28 Penn State 219 Total Points: 2201 (1982 in the regular season.) You can use a lot of systems to rank teams, (including the Sagarin rankings themselves), but if you are going to rank victories, this might be a way to do it. It rather strongly suggests that the national championship game shouldn’t have been an LSU rematch with Alabama, but rather a match-up with Oklahoma State. But, of course, this is just one way of looking at it. 　 [/QUOTE]

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