How the BCS Rankings would look after Week 1
Most every fan in college football is thankful the BCS Rankings are now gone.
The College Football Playoff’s No. 4 seed Ohio State wouldn’t even have been in the championship game had it been left up to the final BCS rankings last year.
However, the first College Football Computer Composite was released after Week 1, and the composite draws on five computer ratings that computed the BCS rankings, according to USA Today.
Here’s a snipit on the website that details how the composite is formulated:
The College Football Computer Composite (CFCC) combines five of the computer formulas used in the former Bowl Championship Series standings to remove the human element from college football rankings. It is compiled by taking the geometric mean of rankings formulated by Richard Billingsley, Wes Colley, Ken Massey, Peter Wolfe and Jeff Sagarin. Among the metrics feeding the CFCC are wins and losses, strength of schedule, home-field advantage, recency of game and, in Massey and Sagarin’s case, margin of victory.
Tuesday’s AP Rankings, of course, set a record with 10 SEC teams in the top 25, including every SEC West team, and the CFCC reiterates the AP with 10 ranked SEC teams.
The following top 25 would look very similar to how the BCS Rankings would look after Week 1:
