The Colley Matrix, one of six computer polls used in college football’s BCS Standings, has a surprising team sitting atop its rankings this week – the Texas Longhorns.
Texas, which is coming off its first losing season of the Mack Brown era, was ranked 24th in the AP Poll heading into the weekend. The Longhorns squeaked past an unranked BYU team at home on Saturday, 17-16, and might be in the midst of an offensive identity crisis as their coaching staff tries to settle on a starting quarterback.
But none of that deterred the equations used to calculate the Colley Matrix from anointing Texas as the top team in college football.
The Colley Matrix’s designer, research scientist Wesley N. Colley, notes on his website that the poll does not factor scoring margin or previous seasons into its rankings, and that strength of schedule has a “strong influence