In Favor of A Quantitative Boycott of the Bowl Championship Series

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The Bowl Championship Series is designed to match the two top teams in college football in a title game. To determine the top ranked teams, polls are combined with a number of quantitative ratings of the teams known collectively as the “computer ranking”. The computer ranking serves primarily to offer a validation of the polls. The individuals whose quantitative ratings are used in the computer ranking have never been given a clear objective to design their ratings for and they are limited in the inputs that they can use. For all of these reasons, I am advocating a boycott of the Bowl Championship Series by all quantitative analysts.

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