http://nittanywhiteout.com/2009/12/02/championship-week-blogpolling/ Penn State Nittany Lion Blog Sun, 05 Sep 2010 15:59:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://nittanywhiteout.com/2009/12/02/championship-week-blogpolling/comment-page-1/#comment-3053 Power Index Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:12:15 +0000 http://nittanywhiteout.com/?p=5378#comment-3053 To those voters who like to claim they are adhering to "head to head" matchups. It is not ridiculous to rank a team that has struggled down the stretch below one that has continued to play consistently. Iowa has lost 2 of their last 3 and looked inept in their final game against Minnesota. I know they beat Penn State head to head, but in college football where transitive properties do not apply, when do you toss out head to head (early on in the season) and go with each team's recent performance instead? Stewart Mandel's Power Rankings does exactly this and I don't understand why most voters don't follow suit. To those voters who like to claim they are adhering to “head to head” matchups. It is not ridiculous to rank a team that has struggled down the stretch below one that has continued to play consistently. Iowa has lost 2 of their last 3 and looked inept in their final game against Minnesota. I know they beat Penn State head to head, but in college football where transitive properties do not apply, when do you toss out head to head (early on in the season) and go with each team's recent performance instead? Stewart Mandel's Power Rankings does exactly this and I don't understand why most voters don't follow suit.

]]> http://nittanywhiteout.com/2009/12/02/championship-week-blogpolling/comment-page-1/#comment-2814 Power Index Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:12:15 +0000 http://nittanywhiteout.com/?p=5378#comment-2814 To those voters who like to claim they are adhering to "head to head" matchups. It is not ridiculous to rank a team that has struggled down the stretch below one that has continued to play consistently. Iowa has lost 2 of their last 3 and looked inept in their final game against Minnesota. I know they beat Penn State head to head, but in college football where transitive properties do not apply, when do you toss out head to head (early on in the season) and go with each team's recent performance instead? Stewart Mandel's Power Rankings does exactly this and I don't understand why most voters don't follow suit. To those voters who like to claim they are adhering to “head to head” matchups. It is not ridiculous to rank a team that has struggled down the stretch below one that has continued to play consistently. Iowa has lost 2 of their last 3 and looked inept in their final game against Minnesota. I know they beat Penn State head to head, but in college football where transitive properties do not apply, when do you toss out head to head (early on in the season) and go with each team's recent performance instead? Stewart Mandel's Power Rankings does exactly this and I don't understand why most voters don't follow suit.

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