If you like college football and/or World War II...

[Weltall]

BCS DECLARES GERMANY WINNER OF WORLD WAR II
US Ranked 4th

After determining the Big-12 championship game participants the BCS computers were put to work on other major contests and today the BCS declared Germany to be the winner of World War II.

"Germany put together an incredible number of victories beginning with the annexation of Austria and the Sudetenland and continuing on into conference play with defeats of Poland, France, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium and the Netherlands. Their only losses came against the US and Russia; however considering their entire body of work--including an incredibly tough Strength of Schedule--our computers deemed them worthy of the #1 ranking."

Questioned about the #4 ranking of the United States the BCS commissioner stated "The US only had two major victories--Japan and Germany. The computer models, unlike humans, aren't influenced by head-to-head contests--they consider each contest to be only a single, equally-weighted event."

German Chancellor Adolph Hiter said "Yes, we lost to the US; but we defeated #2 ranked France in only 6 weeks." Herr Hitler has been criticized for seeking dramatic victories to earn 'style points' to enhance Germany's rankings. Hitler protested "Our contest with Poland was in doubt until the final day and the conditions in Norway were incredibly challenging and demanded the application of additional forces."

The French ranking has also come under scrutiny. The BCS commented " France had a single loss against Germany and following a preseason #1 ranking they only fell to #2."

Japan was ranked #3 with victories including Manchuria, Borneo and the Philippines.

United States head coach Harry S. Truman was criticized by many as having poor taste for scheduling a "politicking" interview during halftime of the German bombing raids over Great Britain.

In that interview, Truman stated, "Any way you look at it, there is going to be a really good military force that gets left out. But when you come right down to it, our head-to-head victory over the Germans has to be the deciding factor."

A US fan also made the point that "Germany is getting all the style points right now because of their sexy offense, which continues to obliterate weaker opponents and show off their might after the battle is already won. But what about defense?"

Not sure where it came from originally, but it still has me laughing for all the right reasons.

[A Black Falcon]

I don't like college football at all, but yeah, that is funny... :)

[DMiller]

I thought Japan deserved a better ranking. I can't believe they have to play in the Outback Bowl.

[Great Rumbler]

No matter how you slice it, the analogy makes no sense.

[TrollSrREMIX]

HAHAHA Canada is Americas hat.

[DMiller]

No matter how you slice it, the analogy makes no sense.

I thought the analogy was apt. Apt I tell you!

[Great Rumbler]

War does not work that way!!

[lazyfatbum]

Generalize harder.

[Dark Jaguar]

Wait, does football work that way? Do they just count whoever won the most games, not the person who beat that guy?

...I declare myself a football team, and I will proceed to play a consecutive 2000 matches against my cat this next season!

[DMiller]

College football has a really weird system. The NFL has a normal playoff system where 12 teams make it based on winning their division or their record and they go through 3 rounds of games to make it to the Super Bowl.

College football uses BCS rankings, which are a combination of computer scoring and human polls. The top two teams in the ranking compete for the championship. It isn't always the team with the most wins since teams from bigger conferences usually have a better strength of schedule so they could get in with a loss or two over an undefeated team from a smaller conference. It's a really dumb system, but it will never go away because it's a constant source of debate.