Peter Mucha, Mason Porter, and Thomas Callaghan's having been thinking about the problems and alternatives in Football Bowl Rankings. Their article has just been posted at the
Notices of the AMS.
It is free to the world to read. This project begain as an VIGRE sponsored REU project. The work
has captured a wide audience, having been reported in Nature Online, and ESPN Magazine.
In fact ESPN was the first to publish a piece on their work.