Wednesday, October 05, 2005

The Big Least

How bad is Big East football this year? Consider this quote from Bob Snyder's column in yesterday's Post-Standard:
Of seven I-A teams still winless this season, three - UB, Army, Florida Atlantic - have been the foils for 31 percent of the Big East's I-A victories.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

The BCS is a total crock, of course. I wonder how a team like the University at Buffalo would fare against USC? They've lost to Syracuse, Rutgers, and UConn by a combined total of 86-3 this year. I think that an all-star team made up of the best players on Syracuse, Rutgers, and UConn would probably lose to USC 86-3, so I can only image how poorly Buffalo would fare. The great irony of American football is that money is a much bigger factor in the ostensibly amateur NCAA than in the NFL. If I was an economist, this is where I would offer an explanation for this phenomenon using concepts like efficient markets, price controls, and equilibria.