SBN's Team Speed Kills Weighs In on the BCS Rankings

SB Nation’s excellent SEC football blog, Team Speed Kills, kicks off what’s sure to be a long and entertaining discussion of the BCS Rankings this week.

Boise State can never complain about the polls again, as the only reason I can see for them being fourth in the country is the “they won, move them up” philosophy that non-traditional powers have decried for years. And, no, the computer rankings don’t “fix” that because they can’t take into account things like MOV and the fact that Boise State barely defeated Tulsa.

Iowa is one of the biggest gaps between humans and the robots in the Top 10, which have the Hawkeyes at No. 3 while the flesh-and-blood voters put them at Nos. 7 and 8. Another notable is Southern Cal, which hasn’t done much but is No. 4 in both human polls and No. 11 according to the chips. (Win to the computers on both points.)

Houston is behind Oklahoma State — again the blame goes to those who are supposedly able to recognize things like head-to-head — and Ohio State is only in the poll at all because the humans inexplicably decided to keep the Buckeyes in the Top 25 after losing to Purdue.

Note: The inane BCS system and computer polls are maddening, but they got nothin’ on the fools that think Boise State’s a top 5 team.