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While Harvard football slowly creeps up the Sagarin rankings—hitting 36th in all of Division I and moving one spot ahead of Boston College—things are going in quite the opposite direction for our travel partner to the north...
...national title, this week Harvard claimed the top spot in five of the eight computer polls used in the Gridiron Power Index—the I-AA equivalent of the BCS ranking system. The Crimson climbed to 38th and 41st in all of Division I in the Sagarin and Massey polls, respectively. No Ivy team has ever finished in the top spot of any single computer poll, much less five. And no Ivy team has ever won the I-AA national title...
Four of the eight computers used in the GPI have Harvard ranked in the top 10 in I-AA. If the GPI used the Sagarin rating that the BCS employs—the Elo-Chess category, which doesn’t include the ever contentious margin of victory—Harvard would be ranked third in I-AA and 48th in all of Division I. (Obviously, I don’t intend to defend the latter statistic, but rather I included it to illustrate the ridiculous nature of some of the constraints of the BCS system, such as removing margin...
...Sagarin ranking that the GPI actually uses places Harvard 16th—the same ranking the Crimson received in the Matthews index. Throw in a 15th and an 18th in the final two computer indexes, and it’s pretty clear that the average ranking (12.38) spit out by one’s trusty IBM lifts the Crimson well out of the dubious Other’s Receiving Votes column...
...Sagarin also rates each teams "strength of schedule", which reveals how hard its schedule compared to the rest of the country. Penn has the 14th toughest schedule out of 325. Harvard ranks 321 out of 325: basically, it has the fifth easiest schedule in the country...