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The first BCS ratings have been released, and NIU is tenth. Remember that the computers have been forbidden to use margin of victory data, so that Oklahoma would record exactly the same performance, as far as they can tell, against NIU's competition. Billingsly explicitly penalizes teams from non-major conferences — if that were well publicized, the normal BCS critics would have a lot of fun with it — and the NYTimes, though tight-lipped about its methodology, presumably uses the same heuristic of severely penalizing a team with a weak schedule. In general, though, the computers with nothing but win/loss and schedule to go on have Northern Illinois in the top ten, while those that use margin of victory place the school around twentieth, which is probably closer to the truth than even the #12 ranking the AP has assigned. |
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