• BCS Bracketology (We Still Lose)

    Darren “My Main Man” Everson dropped another interesting piece in the Wall Street Journal this weekend.   He took the top 64 college football teams ranked via the BCS formula (I’m assuming you can get the data extended out to 64 teams?) and dropped them into an NCAA tournament field.  (BCS #1 Auburn was dropped in the slot held by NCAA top seed Ohio State, and so on).  Then they played out the tournament seed by seed as it’s gone thus far.  Check it out: Even in hypothetical exercises crossing sports we can’t win.   Rich Rod’s 2010 team collides in an improbable match-up with, umm, Mississippi State.  We lost again.  Everson’s a Michigan grad so I’m guessing he chuckled at this one: