The complex formula that determines the overall ranking includes computer rankings by eight selectors.
In the rankings of computer powers, Iran and North Korea are far lower in ability than the United States, Israel, Britain, Russia and China.
With the October 31, 2005, BCS rankings, Texas remained first in the computer rankings, with Virginia Tech pulling even with USC for number two in the computer rankings.
RUN your eye down the national rankings of computers connected to the Internet and one thing stands out: the top nine countries in Internet links per 1,000 citizens are either English-speaking (the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Canada) or Nordic (Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark).
Since Dulko, the continent is without a woman ranked in the top 100 of the W.T.A. singles rankings for the first time since the computer rankings were created.
Although the four computer rankings and two human rankings represent the core of the system, there are three other adjustments that the system makes.
One of the B.C.S.'s computer rankings is provided by Jeff Sagarin, the dean of college rankings, who has been publishing his ratings in USA Today since 1985.
That is not good news for Miami, which began the weekend ranked below Florida State in all but two of the computer rankings.
From the six computer rankings, a team's highest and lowest ranking will be eliminated.
Ranked 20th (but seeded 18th in Paris), Querrey is the lowest-ranked American male No. 1 in the history of the computer rankings and could use a big win to solidify his reign.
