University of North Carolina Athletics
Tar Heels Ranked No. 22 in BCS
October 27, 2008 | Football
Oct. 27, 2008
North Carolina is ranked No. 22 in this week's Bowl Championship Series standings. For a complete list of the rankings, click here. It is the first time Carolina has ever been ranked in the BCS. Carolina is No. 21 in the Associated Press poll and No. 22 in the USA Today/ESPN Coaches poll.
POLL EXPLANATION & ABOUT THE BCS:
The Harris Interactive Poll, USA Today Coaches Poll and computer rankings each comprise one-third of the BCS Standings. To derive the three
percentages, each team is assigned an inverse point total (25 for No. 1, 24 for No. 2, etc.) The two poll percentages are calculated by dividing
each team's point total by a maximum 2850 possible points (Harris) and 1525 possible points (USA Today). The computer rankings percentage
is calculated by dropping the highest and lowest ranking for each team and then dividing the remaining total by 100 (the maximum possible
points). The BCS Average is calculated by averaging the percentage totals of the Harris Interactive Poll, USA Today Poll, and computer
rankings. The teams' BCS Averages are ranked to produce the BCS Standings. The six computer ranking providers are Anderson & Hester,
Richard Billingsley, Colley Matrix, Kenneth Massey, Jeff Sagarin and Peter Wolfe. Each computer ranking provider accounts for schedule
strength within its formula.
The BCS is a five-game arrangement for post-season college football that is managed by the 11 Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division I-A) conferences and Notre Dame. Its purpose is to match the two top-ranked teams in the final BCS standings in a national championship game and to create competitive match-ups in the four other BCS bowl games. The No. 1 and No. 2 teams in the Dec. 7 BCS standings will play in the FedEx BCS National Championship Game Jan. 8, 2009 in Miami Gardens, Fla. The winner of the game will be presented the American Football Coaches Association National Championship Trophy. For more information, visit http://www.bcsfootball.org.
