ESPN writer rates all the BCS teams...

[Hawkfromnorwalk]

Overall health report for each BCS team - ESPN

Here is the rating scale he uses...

5: Consistent winner with potential to be BCS bowl contender every season
4: Potential to join the sport's elite in the near future
3: Recent mediocre results but seems to be building momentum
2: Recent success but seems to be headed in wrong direction
1: Below-average program with little success in past or future

He gives Iowa a 3 which based on the way last season went I can understand. I don't know if he did this last year too but I'm assuming we would have been a 4 after the orange bowl win. Other teams of note. He gives ISU a 2 rating and Wiscy a 4 rating. Somebody needs to knock Wiscy off of their high horse this year.

 

[mj4cy]

I would say based on how terrible ISU was with Chizik and how they've been in contention for bowls the last 2 years, ISU would be heading in the right direction. They probably never will be elite, but I would like to see them be consistently making bowl games each year.

 

[H8IAST8]

Other 3's:
Baylor, KSU, Texas Tech, Louisville, S. Florida, Syracuse.
I stopped there. This whole thing is a joke.

 

[H8IAST8]

According to this he is taking the past 40 gmaes for Mizzou into account??
This makes alot of sense.

Missouri
Rating: 4
Gary Pinkel has guided the Tigers to unprecedented success, winning 40 games over the last four seasons and going to six straight bowl games. The only things missing: A Big 12 championship and BCS bowl game.

 

[DwayneTwill]

ISU seems a bit high. Maybe 1.5.

 

[BradBanks02]

He should've done 1-10. 1-5 allows teams that shouldn't be grouped together to be grouped together.

 

[20eyes]

ISU seems a bit high. Maybe 1.5.

Yeah right, maybe -0.5. Haha, these ratings are a joke. ISWho SUCKS and the Hawks are at least 4. Good thing for the CLOWNS he didn't rate stadiums, theirs SUCKS!

GO HAWKS!!!

 

[528646]

Those ratings are a bunch of garbage. And I would be saying that even if he gave the Hawks a 5.

 

[Mick]

Other 3's:
Baylor, KSU, Texas Tech, Louisville, S. Florida, Syracuse.
I stopped there. This whole thing is a joke.

+1, I had a good laugh when I saw Baylor and KSU given a 3.

 

[Clark]

That's worthless. Not enough categories, the description of the rating system doesn't always fit with the rankings, and some of the placements are pretty questionable.

 

[dchawk75]

Hell, this isn't even worth talking about. His categories don't fit Iowa or Iowa State let alone most of the rest of the BCS. Iowa has won 3 straight bowl games and has had substantial success in the two years preceding this one so it gets a 3. then there's Texas. They were awful a year ago so that merits them a 4. The whole Big 12 is stuck on 4 especially if you throw Nebraska back into their mix. This may be one of the worst designed and implemented analysis I have seen.

 

[H8IAST8]

If im not mistaked Schlabaugh is usually decent too. Not his best work...