Week 12 Anger Index: Why a No. 15 ranking isn't good enough for Miami - ESPN

Anger is a natural and often entirely reasonable emotion, but it can also be a little like misplacing your car keys. There's frustration, outrage, exasperation and a string of epithets that would make Pat Narduzzi blush, and then just when the emotions have reached their apex, you realize the keys have been in your coat pocket the whole time.

So it was with last week's Anger Index.

BYU was right to be upset that, in spite of a spotless record, it was slotted behind three one-loss teams.

The ACC was perfectly justified in its outrage, without a single team in the top 13, despite Louisville and Virginia profiling far better than two-loss teams ranked higher.

Memphis certainly had an ax to grind, relegated to the committee equivalent of an «others receiving votes» nod, when a three-loss team from across the state cracked the top 25.

So, of course, we yelled and screamed and cursed the committee, and by the end of Week 11, we imagine those same committee members were sitting in an oversized chair, stroking a cat and smugly cackling like Bond villains.

But this is a lesson worth learning — not for the outraged and aggrieved, but for the committee.

Because the committee is made up of some particularly wise college football minds, those folks can watch a team's performance and create a trend line. They can see Virginia squeaking by in close games or compare the recruiting pedigree of BYU's roster with teams from the SEC and make an entirely reasonable prediction that, on a long enough timeline, those teams' flaws will become evident and the results will prove the committee right.

But it's a little like watching the Kentucky Derby, seeing the leader fading down the stretch and a favorite charging from the back. Can we predict