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BCS Robots

The Obedient Robot loves college football.  Some people like the BCS the way it is.  Other than those two people everyone else wants a playoff.  Here is a very robotic solution.

There are 120 teams in college football playing at the level that matters most.

There are six BCS conferences and 5 other conferences.

Everything stays the same except:

The six BCS conferences would each be limited to ten teams each.  Sixty teams there.

One new non BCS conference would be created so that there would be six non BCS conferences of ten teams each.  Sixty teams there.  Each non BCS conference would be tied to the most geographically sensible BCS conference.  

During the season each team would play the other nine teams in their respective conference to determine who is the conference champion.  No more conference championship games.  This leaves three non conference games to protect age old rivalries.  

The BCS games would be selected as they are now except that only BCS conference teams can play in them.  

How is this better you ask?

The team with the worst conference record would be dropped from their BCS conference at the end of the season.  They would be placed in the non BCS conference that they are tied to.  The team with the best conference record in the non BCS conferences would be rewarded with a chance to play at a higher level by being allowed into the BCS conference that they are tied to.  

What does this mean?

This allows upward and downward mobility amongst teams.  It would make all games at the end of the season interesting as they would have conference shifting implications.  Yes the independents such as Norte Dame would have to join a conference.  There would be no more complaints from the Boise States and Utahs of the world who claim that they are good enough to play with BCS teams.

The Obedient Robot will be attending The Holiday Bowl and will repeat this for all who will listen.

The Obedient Army

A room full of obedient robots.

It starts with music

This is a very obedient robot.

How many robots can you fit on the head of a pin?

How much land would it take for all 6,617,124,087 people on Earth to be in one place? 949 square miles. If you were to give every human four square feet to stand or sit the size of the crowd would be a square 30.805843 miles wide and 30.805843 miles long. 

The amount of change that would be happening in this square would be incredible. Imagine sitting atop a tower in the middle of that group so that you could survey the crowd. In just 60 seconds 250 babies will be delivered, 111 people will die (2 of which would be suicide) and there will be 90 abortions. 

Think of how quickly we would have to move to get 6,660 bodies out of the area every hour and how much chaos would be routine adding 15,000 babies an hour to the group. 

Also in that day we would hand out a new computer to 230,000 people and 3,000,000 new computers would be hooked up to the Internet. 

The Obedient Robot

Robots and people are pretty alike.

On the most basic level, human beings and robots are made up of five major components:

• A body structure
• A muscle to move the body structure
• A sensory system that receives information about the body and the surrounding environment
• A power source to activate the muscles and sensors
• A brain system that processes sensory information and tells the muscles what to do

Some are more obedient than others.  It can be difficult to tell them apart.  This blog is a place where the two can come together.