I’ll be honest with you, I would have fallen into that. Listen, I wasn’t able to handle at 19,18, 20. I wasn’t even able to handle it at 30. Thirty-five? I just got here at forty-five! I just got here. If you would have offered me boats, women, and my hands are up in the air.

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— Michael Irvin, giving us the honest (if obvious) answer to the question, “What if Nevin Shapiro had happened twenty years sooner?”

(Source: everydayshouldbesaturday.com)

There is no genuine interest here in using statistical analysis to figure out how the teams compare with one another. The real purpose is to create some gobbledygook math to endorse the coaches’ and sportswriters’ vote.

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Bill James, sharing one of his four problems with the BCS in a Slate Magazine article urging his statistician colleagues to boycott it.

Simply put, the BCS has failed everybody. Its only job — its only reason for being — is to pit the #1 and #2 teams in America against each other. It’s impossible to do that with one game. The only reason the BCS survives this annual humiliation is that it creates an annual pay day for an elite few, who are robbing the players and fans of a true champion.

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— BCS fails again: What about USC, Utah, and Texas? | All Things Trojan | Los Angeles Times