National sports media broadcaster ESPN aired its “College Football Mock BCS Countdown” program on Sunday evening, October 10, 2010. The mock BCS rankings, released a week ahead of the first official BCS poll due out Sunday, October 17, ranked Boise State University first in the poll with a composite score of .913.

Background of the ESPN Mock BCS Standings Computation

The mock poll was based on computations by ESPN “BCS guru” Brad Edwards. According to the program, Edwards utilized five of the six computer rankings used in the official BCS rankings, the USA Today coaches poll and the Harris Interactive poll to compute the projected standings for the top 10 college football teams in the nation at the end of week 7.

The official BCS standings use six computerized rankings, the coaches poll and Harris Interactive poll to compute the actual BCS poll with a formula that gives a one-third weighting to the computer rankings and a two-thirds weighting to the two polls used. While one of the six BCS computer rankings was unavailable to ESPN, Edwards felt confident that his rankings would track closely the official results had they been released this week.

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