Wesley Colley can feel free to brag today
Posted on January 9th, 2007 – 5:01 PMBy Michael Rand
About a month ago, for the Newspaper of the Twin Cities, we wrote a short item about Wesley Colley, who compiles one of the six computer rankings used in determining the order of BCS teams. His Colley Matrix was the only one of the six at that point to have Florida No. 1 and Ohio State No. 2, even though the Gators had one loss while the Buckeyes were undefeated. He reasoned that the Buckeyes had played a softer schedule and that Florida was simply the better team. This is what he said in a telephone interview at the time: “I’ve had a few e-mails asking how I can have Ohio State below Florida. It’s not surprising to me when a an undefeated team is below a one-loss team.”
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10 Responses to "Wesley Colley can feel free to brag today"
Wesley Colley didn’t have to rely on his COLLEY MATRIX to pick Florida over Ohio State. All he had to do was ponder Big 10’s best versus SEC’s best for a nanosecond and choose the Gators. I picked Florida by 6 in my family’s football pool. I wasn’t surprised that Florida rang up 41 against the OSU Washington Generals but thought that Ohio would at least compete. Univ of Minn hockey fans should be grateful that the SEC doesn’t participate in Division I puck, otherwise the men’s team would have a lot more to worry about than the dreaded Holy Cross Crusaders.
I don’t think the results of the championship game mean a whole lot in terms of saying which conference is better. Wisconsin and a very mediocre Penn State team both beat SEC teams in their bowl games. The two conferences split their two head-to-head bowl matchups in 2005, and the Big Ten won two out of three in 2004.
What happened in the title game was Florida played great and Ohio State stunk.
I picked up over $50 on the game (I’ll deny it in court, of course) by watching Fla. in a few games this year. I watched Ohio State too and always felt the dimunitve Smith was way overrated, a better r.b. is he
p.s. my game bet is listed way back in an earlier post…tough to find those posts when their time is past
You watched Troy Smith and thought he’d be better as a RB? He’s much less of a runner than Vince Young or Michael Vick. For comparison purposes, he’s a lot closer to Drew Brees (undersized, pass-first) than the above names.
Doesn’t mean he’d be a good r.b. as much as he’s a lousy q.b.
A lousy QB? Sheesh. He had a lousy game against Florida, but he isn’t lousy overall.
Sean’s reply to my post is very informative. I watched Penn State beat Tennessee and was surprised by how much the Vols have devolved since crushing California in Knoxville 5 months ago.
I would love to see the 2009 Gophers play Tennessee in the new stadium’s first game, with guest of honor Murray Warmath watching from the coach’s suite. Warmath, of course, played for General Bob Neyland at Tennessee.
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