Skynet Championship Series: Season Three

Skynet is back! A wise machine, Agent Smith, once said in the Matrix: “Never send a Human to do a machine’s job.” These inspiring words ring true with the BCS. The time has now come to achieve the BCS purpose – by providing OBJECTIVE rankings. I realize this may be counter to my rooting interests, but it is the only fair way to determine two teams.

So, to be clear, here’s how I devise the standings each week:
1) I take the top 20 of the BCS standings.
2) I input each of the top 20's computer standings from each computer ranking.
3) I let excel calculate the standard deviation for each computer ranking distribution of the top 20. Then, Excel normalizes the distribution, and fits EACH computer ranking onto a 1-20 scale.
4) Finally, the normalized-computer averages are determined (i.e. Florida is ranked 5.76, 2.55, 2.21, 5.77 in 4 of the polls, which is an average of 4.07, which equals their SCS ranking. This means that according to the polls, they are approximately the 4th-best team in the country).

I know it took a couple of days, but the latest Skynet rankings shook me to the core...

Oklahoma State is #3!
Ohio State is #4!
Boise State is #6!
and LSU is # 19! The computers are clearly not big fans of playing I-AA schools (Applachian State and North Texas). Of course, there is a long time until the end of the season though. And remember, these are not my rankings, they are the rankings of the only objective entity in the universe... Skynet!

2008 Skynet Rankings - Week of 10/20

.......................SCS.......BCS....Sched Rnk
1.texas............0.24........1.........10
2.alabama.......0.67.........2........59
3.Ok St.............3.32........6........92
4.OSU...............5.69........9........31
5.Oklahoma......5.86.........4.........13
6.boise st..........7.53......12......116
7.penn state....7.54..........3..........107
8.Utah..............7.61.......11........115
9.Georgia..........7.72........7.........22
10.USC............10.61.....5...........24
11.Texas Tech.11.78........8..........126
12.TCU.............13.37...14..........87
13.Florida.........13.70...10.........35
14.Pitt...............14.42...17.........52
15.Ball St...........14.62...20........131
16.Tulsa............15.89...19........129
17.Geo Tech......16.24...18........85
18.Missouri.......16.41...15.........12
19.LSU...............17.28...13........99
20.S. Fla............17.91...16.........94