BCS Ratings Could Use a Good Reboot

A computer is allowed to choose between USC’s Pete Carroll and Texas’ Mack Brown. The result? “Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job.”

DAVID MACARAY

Rowland Heights

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Football is a game played by humans, announced by humans and viewed by humans. A computer should not determine the rankings of a football team. To err is human -- to pick the wrong team at No. 1 is the BCS.

JEFF CALZADA

Montebello

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After learning of the BCS results this week, my girlfriends and I thought we should appropriately express our feelings on shirts that we will wear to the homecoming game:

Front: .0007

Back: Number of weeks USC has been #1 in the AP poll: 29

Number of first-place USC votes in the coaches’ poll: 53

Letting computers decide the No. 1 team: Useless.

LESLEY ELLIOTT

Newport Beach

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In defense of the otherwise inane BCS, I offer the following:

1. College football’s regular season has meaning because every game is essentially a playoff.

2. College basketball’s regular season is totally meaningless because a 10-loss team can get into the NCAA tournament, win six games and be crowned champion.

3. If college football had a playoff system, there still would be teeth gnashing over who got in and the seedings.

The bottom line is there is no perfect way to decide the best team in college football. Like beauty, it is ultimately in the eyes of the beholder.

MARK S. ROTH

Los Angeles

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Those whining Trojan zealots are at it again. “How could they drop to No. 2 in the BCS!” As if this drop even matters, since both Texas and USC would have to lose to be out of the championship game.

But the most amusing part of this whining is the hypocrisy. They demand that last season’s performance be factored into this year’s ranking, yet two short years ago, in proclaiming themselves national champions, these same myopians were willing to overlook an event that occurred that very season, namely a loss to California. Go figure.

ALAN ABAJIAN

Alta Loma

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Let’s see, the USC football team should’ve lost to a top-10 team and hasn’t covered the spread in the last four weeks. I guess the question should be why such intelligent people from such a prestigious school even need to have a computer to know why their football team isn’t the No. 1 team in the nation. But then again, this is the same school that teaches its band only one song.

CARLOS SOLORZANO

Carson