A research project of Peter Mucha, Mason Porter, and
undergraduate Thomas Callaghan has made into
Nature Science Online (Nature is a top journal in science
publications.)

The research project, coming out of last summer's VIGRE
sponsored Research Experience for Undergraduates,
concerns Bowl Rankings for College Football.
Specifically, using a random method to do the things that
others use very complicated statistics to do.
The link is:
Nature Online
Their article is at the ArXiv.
And a short intro to the work is at Professor Mucha's Web Site.