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Show “ LARC Grid Rankings NCAA Football Final LARC Rankings ihe current suc he BYU footba and basketball teams National ranking systems e become a big thing ley And one the latest ranking t systems is the Larsen: Allen Ranking by Com. puter (LARC), a home. grown product BYU professor Dr Wayne Larsen has been developing ranking chemes for 20 years. In 1978-79 Andy Allen. a graduate student of BYU's Statistics Depart- RANK TEAM Ohio State Florida State Alabama OkL T record the strength of their mn No subjective bias. previous record or political consideration influence the ranking system either is Margin of victory con: sidered Using LARC, and Allen have the nation’s 140 college football Larsen ranked major teams usc Arkansas Houston Pittsburgh Nebraska Oklahoma Texas South Carolina sion LARC Is a mathematically based listed The system also es timates a team’s worth and that is the figure at theright of the rankings Using this figure LARC predicts game outcomes For example, if BYU is 3 and Utah 2, the odds are BYU will beat Utah n a neutral field or court for the 1979 season The rankings listed Under LARC. the top here are for the 1979 team ts Ohio State season BYU is listed as Arkansas. Houston, Pitt sburgh. Nebraska and and the rankings count only games against ma- Jor opposition Upcoming Games Ranked by Importance | Clemson WakeForest Central Michigan Temple McNeese State Tulane North Carolina North Carolina State Penn State Michigan Washington Notre Dame Auburn Baylor San DiegoState UNLV Maryland Tennessee-Chatt. Ss 2a San eenre RANK FAVORITE Ohio State Alabama Florida State Houston Texas North Carolina BYU Pittsburgh ‘urdue Temple McNeeseState South Carolina Wake Forest UNDERDOG USC Arkansas Oklahoma Nebraska | in the top 10 se to what the national polls have ment, developed LARC followed by Florida playing only 19 games as a master’s thesis un State, Alabama, BYL because WeberState was der Dr Larsen’s supervi Southern Calif not a major college foe BYU IMPORTANCE 3. 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