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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: net.sport.football
Subject: Re: Top All-time College Bowl Teams
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Date: Wed, 29-Jan-86 15:23:24 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 29 15:23:24 1986
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In article <42400014@uokvax.UUCP> mike@uokvax.UUCP writes:
>Another injustice is that Texas is above OU because they LOST more games.
>What exactly are these ratings meant to show?  Most bowls attended?

The idea is to get as good an approximation as one can of a team's
football program through the century by looking at bowl performances.
A team which loses in a bowl is presumably superior to one which is
not even invited.  It is when a team's invitation or lack thereof is
not based on how good it is that you get injustices.  If OU turned
down potential bowl bids because they had been in one recently, this
would indeed be an example of such.

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