If you want to know what's wrong with the BCS rankings, you need look no further than the wide disparity among the computers. This week, Jeff Sagarin (SAG) for instance has one-loss Bowling Green ranked at number 4; above such football powerhouses as Florida State, Ohio State, Virginia Tech, LSU, Michigan, and Georgia. Sagarin also has Miami ranked number 2 (as did two other polls), and Virginia Tech ranked at 20, just two days after Miami's 31-7 drubbing at VT. According to Jeff Sagarin's poll, Miami's yards on the field are worth more than the whether or not they won the game.

Also the BCS as a whole no longer counts margin of victory. As a life long football fan, you can imagine my shock when the BCS basically said that first downs count more than the points on the scoreboard.

Other teams are facing a wide disparity of poll numbers, with undefeated TCU measuring up as high as 4th on the Anderson/Hester (AND) poll, and 33rd on the New York Times poll. With such a wide range, one has to wonder just who is programming these machines, and why are we listening to them?

Of course all of this is driven by money. The bowl system brings in big bucks, and it may just take an act of Congress to get rid of it.

UPDATE: This week's poll offers up more evidence. Notice that TCU is #2 (above USC) in the AND poll, and #25 in the NYT poll.