... 10pt; line-height: 130%; font-family: Verdana; color: black;">For better or worse, college football has changed.  Just winning games isn't enough anymore.   

In order to compete for a national championship these days, schools need big name recruits and big numbers to go along with the wins.  In order to be considered a contender, teams need to win big and have lots of big yardage plays by athletes with household names.

It's not that these things are required to win games.  They aren't.  It's that big numbers and big names are required to impress the computers.

It's about the computers, ya see.   

Computers crunch complex calculations.  They can factor in more information to make more accurate assessments.
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