HOW MANY BCS COMPUTERS HAVE DATA ENTRY ERRORS?

We can agree or disagree about whether the computer rating systems should play a part in determining which two teams play in the national championship game. But I think we all agree that as long as the computer ratings are part of the BCS, the numbers the computers are crunching need to be accurate.Unfortunately, that’s not always the case.Wes Colley, the guy who runs the Colley computer ratings, forgot to input two games this season, Idaho at Hawaii and UC-Davis at San Diego. He never would have known, except that Jerry Palm of CollegeBCS.com noticed the problem.Colley, to his credit, makes his formula publicly available, so anyone who wants to (and is mathematically literate enough) can check his work. That’s how Palm caught his mistake. But the other computer rating formulas aren’t publicly available. So it’s entirely possible that there are data entry errors in the other computer ratings, and we’ll never know because no one checks the computers’ work.How many BCS computers have data entry errors? Who knows? But it’s ridiculous that there’s a possibility of a data entry error making the difference between Oklahoma and Texas.