A few weeks ago, I posted my BCS ranking computer program. It did a pretty good job, but there were some weird results. Specifically, it had what I call "the Idaho problem."

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I think almost all college football fans would agree that the BCS is, if nothing else, a strange system. There are human polls, computer rankings, & lots and lots of money. After the craziness that put Iowa at the top of the computers (which I agree with, I have to say), I started reading about some of these mysterious computers. Frankly, some of them are odd, as they start with preseason "power rankings," which are basically guessing (the Billingsley model actually punishes teams for not performing based on how he guessed they would perform). I was wondering if it was possible to produce a computer program that didn't involve any initial seeding and could still produce reasonable rankings.

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