College Football Week 13, in which LSU and Arkansas put a boot in your ...

The "SEC's computers" are part of the BCS formula? I was under the impression that the computers liked that Big 12 more this year and for good reason: The SEC is not as deep as it usually is this year.

 

E-mailed you a few "OU could be best ever" stories I found from 2003 ... they started appearing after the 77-0 smackdown of the Aggies.

 

I remember the Nebraska 1983 team was being placed in the NFL by a lot of writers at the time, too. Then they went to the OB and, you know the rest ....

 

OK, help me understand this.

Oregon students are angry that the university president is being fired for giving pay raises to the faculty and trying to make the campus more independent of state control. As college students are wont to do, they expressed that anger rather stupidly.

That makes Oregon another Penn State in the making? Support for a president who is doing what he thinks is best for the academic standing of the university is comparable to support for administrators who covered up a pederast in the football program?

 

What do you mean by "SEC's computers"?

 

I mean the formula that was re-jiggered by Roy Kramer in the mid-2000s and that has since never failed to give the SEC the benefit of the doubt in controversial BCS cases. I am also referring to the fact that the BCS holds these formulas as proprietary and will not allow them to be made public so the world can know how the computers arrive at their conclusions.

 

What does the BCS gain from having Alabama in the NCG instead of OK State, or Florida instead of Michigan/USC?

 

So you think the formulas add a couple of points, here and there, just for being in the SEC? Don't look out the window, man. There's a helicopter out there. It may, or may not, be black. Just sayin'.

 

The BCS, not much. Roy Kramer and the SEC, who created and basically run the BCS, gain quite a bit.

The BCS has resisted many calls over many years to let the world see its computers. The most logical conclusion to draw is that they have something to hide.

 

I may put LSU up there in the all-time defense category, but not quite ready to put Bama there. Bama has played only one team ranked in the top 50 offensively (Arkansas). The rest of its schedule featured some really, really bad offenses (Kent State, North Texas, Tennessee, Ole Miss). They've certainly put up some great numbers, but they haven't played a decent offense outside of Arkansas. Sad thing is, we still won't see them match up with a good offense.

 

Alabama's defense can only play the offenses it has played, but it's still putting up historically good numbers. And probably nine of their starters along with four or five of their backups are going to play in the NFL one day.