Abstract
This article employs the Bradley–Terry method of paired comparisons, previously used by Beard and Caudill (Citation2007), to examine the 2007 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) football season. We find that the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) did get it right: Ohio State University (OSU) number one and Louisiana State University (LSU) number two. Our method also indicates that LSU played a much more difficult schedule than OSU and that the Southeastern Conference (SEC) is the strongest conference in the US.
Acknowledgement
The author is grateful to Jesse Adams, Ping Liang and Thomas McAdams for helpful research assistance.
Notes
1The Bradley–Terry procedure provides 100 estimated values of θ, one for each team, and their respective SEs. For brevity, these estimates and SEs are not presented but are available from the author upon request.