PeterPan

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I'll slit my wrists if thats the case. This whole proposal just needs to be toned down. Its too theme park-ish. Having arches AND canopies over the gates is just too much. And whats up with all the damn flags

And dont get me started again on the goofy "TIGER STADIUM" sign on top

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We created this system to grade conferences based equally on two key components, the quality of the upper tier schools AND the depth of the conference. The AP (or Coaches) poll is a good proxy for the strength of the top schools in each conference. On any given week there are roughly 35-45 schools given a positive voting number, that is, at least one 25th place vote. This means about two-thirds of FBS schools are treated equally and given zero AP points. So, only conferences with these elite schools will get any points at all and only the elite of the elite will receive the major points given out if you can make the top ten.

The second aspect of this system is designed to proxy the depth of the conference. Computer ratings are great for this purpose as they always will rate at least all FBS schools. Thus if you are a very top heavy conference with bad schools near the bottom of your standings, computer ratings will heavily penalize you.

A simple statistical process called "normalization" is then used to put the AP poll and the computer rating averages on the same scale with their 50/50 weights.

Hopefully this sheds a little more light on our methodology. Suggestions are always welcome and debate always encouraged.

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Good news, I was able to track down the owner of the copyright of the image and he gave me written permission to reproduce the photo.

Working on that now.

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Y'all did notice the phantom Bengal stripes on the helmet?


Holy shite I just noticed that.



Absolutely pitiful.

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Do you see team like Alabana, Penn State and Notre Dame wearing that shite?

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