1.18.2009

Crowning the College Football Champion Through the Transitive Property

For those of you who lack the faith required to crown a national champion under the reign of the BCS, I offer you....math. I came across this interesting website that utilizes the transitive property (if a=b and b=c, then a=c) to crown 116 of the 120 NCAA Division I teams champions of 2009. For example, let us take the lowly Michigan Wolverines, who finished a pitiful 3-9 this past season. Michigan beat Minnesota - Minnesota beat Illinois - Illinois beat Iowa - Iowa beat South Carolina - South Carolina beat Mississippi - Mississippi beat Florida - Florida was the 2009 AP National Champion - so, by the transitive property, Michigan was the best Division 1-A school of 2009.

Enjoy.
Posted by Ivan at 11:29 PM 2 comments

2 comments:

January 20, 2009 at 2:55 PM DarkoV said...

I believe there's a dead math teacher turning in his grave now, wondering how the relatively sweet and simple Transitive Property is being malevolently mis-used by the math-challenged BCS group.
There's a HUGE hole in this argument and I hope, what being a temporary math major, you'll see that wide crater.....

January 21, 2009 at 2:26 AM Ivan said...

what crater is that? This use of the transitive property is all in good fun.

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