By the way - if you're a coder with curiosity, @_KevinSmith maintains a GitHub contain all the source code here: You could download it, audit it, tweak it with your own marble transfer rules, and/or use it for you local high schools, etc. github.com/kevinsmith/CFBMar…

Time to check in on the world's fairest and most transparent college football ranking system: marbles. Congratulations new #1 UCLA. BTW, highest rank G5 is JMU at #28, and would replace Tennessee in a hypothetical 12 team playoff seeded by marbles. xitter.cf/CFBMarbleGame/status/2…

Hope they don't mind me bird-dogging, but here's the respective updated Top 12 marble standings for @CFBMarbleGame (1) and @cfbmarbles (2). (1) is the original flavor marble transfer rules, (2) has slighty different rules. Either, I will suggest, is superior to hungover idiot sports columnists with ballots

The Marbles have spoken

New CFB Marble Game standings are in! Once again these really don't start shaking out until around Week 7, so these are largely for amusement until then. Scoring rules and complete rankings are at the link.

CFB Marble Game ranking after Week 1 is out. They won't mean much until week 6 or so, but you can track their evolution after each game. As always, thanks to @_KevinSmith for making this happen!

(a) the Marble Game playoff would only include 3 Big Ten teams: 13-0 Indiana, 12-1 Ohio State, and 11-1 Oregon. (b) there is no whining among any other Big Ten teams that they have a divine right to a playoff bid with 3 losses xitter.cf/PaperworkNinja/status/…

If I were in charge of college football, I'd merely get rid of the playoff selection committee and replace it with some version of the @CFBMarbleGame. I suppose that's delusional too, but it'd be easier to bully a single ESPN than 136 separate university presidents