{"id":278,"date":"2012-01-04T15:37:58","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T20:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2012\/01\/04\/professors-harris-hutson-crunch-the-college-football-numbers\/"},"modified":"2022-11-08T13:26:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T18:26:01","slug":"professors-harris-hutson-crunch-the-college-football-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/professors-harris-hutson-crunch-the-college-football-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Math professors Harris, Hutson crunch the college football numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are the BCS computer ratings the best way to rank college football teams? Peter Keating, a writer with <em>ESPN the Magazine<\/em>, doesn\u2019t think so, and he enlisted the help of Furman math professors John Harris and Kevin Hutson to prove his point.<\/p>\n<p>Keating writes about ranking teams according to the Simple Rating System (SRS), which looks at the final scores among a set of teams, then rates the teams by their margin of victory in those games, adjusted upward or downward by their opponents&#8217; strength. \u00a0Furman professors Harris and Hutson helped Keating solve the matrix algebra equations necessary to get SRS ratings for every Division I-A football team since 2006.<\/p>\n<p>The Dec. 28 article, which predicted this year\u2019s BCS bowl game winners based on the SRS rankings, appeared online in ESPN Insider.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/insider.espn.go.com\/college-football\/story?id=7396023&amp;_slug_=a-true-rating-lsu-michigan-other-bcs-bowl-teams-cfb&amp;action=login&amp;appRedirect=http%3a%2f%2finsider.espn.go.com%2fcollege-foo\">Read \u201cA true rating of BCS teams\u201d<\/a><\/strong> (subscription required)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are the BCS computer ratings the best way to rank college football teams? Peter Keating, a writer with\u00a0<em>ESPN the Magazine<\/em>, doesn\u2019t think so, and he enlisted the help of Furman math professors John Harris and Kevin Hutson to prove his point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-mathematics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}