From: don.p.del.grande@gmail.com   
      
   > > > > Go back to a fairly objective formula like the BCS had.   
   > > > I did go and try to find the six computers that the BCS used. Sagarin no   
   longer has his "score-free" formula available, but I think the others have   
   their equivalents still. I know Don does his NOTBCS rankings, which I think   
   use more computers.   
      
   Correct - I use whatever computers are available on the Massey composite site   
   at around 6:30 PM Eastern on Monday (although I do tend to wait until the   
   Friday after the championship game for the final rankings, just to be sure I   
   can get as many as I can).   
      
   Speaking of which - no, there are none that have Georgia and FSU ranked 1 and   
   2, and even if there were, having any of the playoff teams beat two of the   
   others in the same time period could very easily vault that team above FSU, so   
   if FSU wants to invent    
   its own national championship (and that assumes it can beat Georgia in the   
   first place), it has some work to do.   
      
   > > > I find the following:    
   > > > Colley: 1. Washington, 2. Michigan, 3. Texas, 4. Alabama, 5. Florida   
   State    
   > > > Billingsley: 1. Washington, 2. Michigan, 3. Florida State, 4. Alabama,   
   5. Georgia    
   > > > Massey BCS: 1. Washington, 2. Michigan, 3. Alabama. 4. Texas, 5. Florida   
   State    
   > > > Anderson & Hester: 1. Washington, 2. Michigan, 3. Florida State, 4. Ohio   
   State, 5. Alabama    
   > > > Wolfe: 1. Washington, 2. Michigan, 3. Florida State, 4. Alabama, 5.   
   Texas    
   > > > Sagarin*: 1. Michigan, 2. Oregon, 3. Ohio State, 4. Texas, 5. Penn State    
   > > Sagarin is borked. ($1)   
   > Yeah, that's why that version got banned in the BCS days, and they made him   
   use a score-free version. But the version he had to use in those days no   
   longer seems to exist.   
      
   Also correct - Sagarin stopped his score-free one when he no longer needed it.   
   I think one of the others - I want to say Billingsley - no longer has its   
   score-free version either.   
   I know Colley is still score-free, and I think Massey's is as well.   
      
   Besides, to be a "true" BCS, at least in later years (after AP withdrew for   
   some reason), you need to bring back the Harris Interactive poll. Step 1: find   
   someone to conduct a seance so you can ask John Wooden who his top 25 are.   
      
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