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The ESPN Playoff Simulator referenced in a previous topic enabled me to play out a idea that I had.
There is a theoretical geographic spot in the US the is exactly in the center of its population. That is to say there are the same # of people North and South of the spot, and well as the same # East and West.
(REF: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_center_of_U.S._population )
I took the Simulator and began filling in the brackets with the BCS poll into four 4-team regional quads (Northeast, Southeast, Northwest, and Southwest), based upon the school's geographic location in relation to that Mean Center of the Population. It came out like this:
SOUTHEAST Region
BAMA vs. Georgia Tech
Florida vs. Georgia
NORTHEAST Region
Penn State vs. Mich State
Cincinnati vs. Ohio State
SOUTHWEST Region
Texas vs. USC
Texas Tech vs. Oklahoma
NORTHWEST Region
Utah vs. Oregon
Boise State vs. BYU
(Two teams were replaced by lower ranked teams because they failed to make the top 4 in their geographic region.)
An interesting thing happened at this point. I anticipate a entertaining set up for Football King of the hill, but realized what was produced was not the great product I expected.
In this first round alone there are at lest three rematches...questions that have already been answered. Next, some of the match ups would likely not have a national interest (I won't name names, but could include the Run vs. Run - Bama/Tech match up.) If Georgia Tech and USC both lose (as expected), we would be guaranteed two more rematch games in the SOUTHEASTERN and SOUTHWESTERN Regional finals. Because the PAC 10 is split between Regions, in theory Oregon and USC could meet again in the WESTERN Semifinal. I don't think this is good.
No doubt ol'LBS will will be working a new angle...to be relayed here later.
There is a theoretical geographic spot in the US the is exactly in the center of its population. That is to say there are the same # of people North and South of the spot, and well as the same # East and West.
(REF: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_center_of_U.S._population )
I took the Simulator and began filling in the brackets with the BCS poll into four 4-team regional quads (Northeast, Southeast, Northwest, and Southwest), based upon the school's geographic location in relation to that Mean Center of the Population. It came out like this:
SOUTHEAST Region
BAMA vs. Georgia Tech
Florida vs. Georgia
NORTHEAST Region
Penn State vs. Mich State
Cincinnati vs. Ohio State
SOUTHWEST Region
Texas vs. USC
Texas Tech vs. Oklahoma
NORTHWEST Region
Utah vs. Oregon
Boise State vs. BYU
(Two teams were replaced by lower ranked teams because they failed to make the top 4 in their geographic region.)
An interesting thing happened at this point. I anticipate a entertaining set up for Football King of the hill, but realized what was produced was not the great product I expected.
In this first round alone there are at lest three rematches...questions that have already been answered. Next, some of the match ups would likely not have a national interest (I won't name names, but could include the Run vs. Run - Bama/Tech match up.) If Georgia Tech and USC both lose (as expected), we would be guaranteed two more rematch games in the SOUTHEASTERN and SOUTHWESTERN Regional finals. Because the PAC 10 is split between Regions, in theory Oregon and USC could meet again in the WESTERN Semifinal. I don't think this is good.
No doubt ol'LBS will will be working a new angle...to be relayed here later.
