If I wanted to win the championship of spreadsheets, I would look at teams that are winning these categories of spreadsheet and then add them from other conferences.

The problem with that strategy is that when they are part of the same conference, it changes everything. It changes all of these numbers. You can’t take data from an independent BYU and assume that it is exactly the same when BYU is part of the big 12. And that doesn’t just affect BYU, it affects the other teams as well.

If you look at teams who score poorly in fan interest and attendance, it is generally going to be teams that are finishing in the bottom half of the conference. Right now, you’re taking data from eight conference teams and then adding four out of conference teams who are all at the top of their individual conferences. In other words, you now have at least eight teams that have had recent significant success. But that will change as they all compete for the same prize and play each other.

But it’s even more problematic with using rankings. You won’t have 8 conference teams ranked from the Big12 when they all play each other.

This is very flawed data when you try to compare “apples to apples”.