# 2015 College Football Omnibus Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [August 30, 2015, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2015-college-football-omnibus-thread/729398 "2015-08-30T16:01:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Thing\_Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@Thing\_Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing_Fish)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2015, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2015-college-football-omnibus-thread/729398/101 "2015-09-14T21:32:44Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > I told you Mariota’s game wouldn’t transfer to the pros. Maybe next time you’ll listen to me. :D:D:D ---
**Author:** ![Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barkis_is_Willin)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2015-college-football-omnibus-thread/729398/102 "2015-09-15T14:16:00Z")
I’ll appreciate this #1 ranking while it lasts. Georgia Tech, unranked in your poll, is coming to ND and they are living up to their rambling wreck name so far. Granted, they played a couple tin cans, but they destroyed them. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2015-college-football-omnibus-thread/729398/103 "2015-09-15T14:23:08Z")
I guess if you are a non Power 5 team, you get no respect. BYU beat Nebraska (at Nebraska) and Boise St. ---
**Author:** ![Thing\_Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@Thing\_Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing_Fish)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2015-college-football-omnibus-thread/729398/104 "2015-09-15T18:32:29Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > I guess if you are a non Power 5 team, you get no respect. > > BYU beat Nebraska (at Nebraska) and Boise St. Not sure if this was directed at me, but you’re right, I haven’t been keeping track of the non Power 5 teams. Right now BYU would be around #12 or so, so good for them, but at least for this season I’m not going to take on the extra work of tracking the performances of teams whose weak schedules guarantee that they can’t possibly contend for a spot in the rankings at the end of the season. So, yeah, fair cop to not respecting the little guys. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Who](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Doctor\_Who](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Who)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2015-college-football-omnibus-thread/729398/105 "2015-09-16T01:14:05Z")
> [@Thing\_Fish](#): > > Not sure if this was directed at me, but you’re right, I haven’t been keeping track of the non Power 5 teams. Right now BYU would be around #12 or so, so good for them, but at least for this season I’m not going to take on the extra work of tracking the performances of teams whose weak schedules guarantee that they can’t possibly contend for a spot in the rankings at the end of the season. So, yeah, fair cop to not respecting the little guys. You have to be doing something right if you have anti-SEC and anti-little guy in the same ranking system. Now just sprinkle in a little anti-Big 10 and we’ll be cooking with grease! ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2015-college-football-omnibus-thread/729398/106 "2015-09-16T02:47:04Z")
I wonder if BYU get ranked if they beat UCLA and Michigan in the next two weeks. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Who](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Doctor\_Who](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Who)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2015-college-football-omnibus-thread/729398/107 "2015-09-16T03:06:25Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > I wonder if BYU get ranked if they beat UCLA and Michigan in the next two weeks. … With Hail Marys!!! ---
**Author:** ![Thing\_Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@Thing\_Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing_Fish)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2015-college-football-omnibus-thread/729398/108 "2015-09-16T16:17:05Z")
If you mean the AP poll, BYU are already at #19. ---
**Author:** ![Thing\_Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@Thing\_Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing_Fish)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2015-college-football-omnibus-thread/729398/109 "2015-09-16T19:27:04Z")
OK, I changed my mind. It may be more work to include everyone in the rankings, but it also makes for more fun, so I will go ahead and revise the rankings, although I’m pretty sure it’s going to be almost impossible for a non-P5 team to still be in the top 25 at season’s end. Besides, this way I at least get one Oregon team into the top 25! **Post Week 1 ratings, revised** 1. Ohio State 2. Portland State (probably their highest ranking ever!!) 3. South Dakota State 4. Temple 5. Western Kentucky 6. UCLA 7. BYU 8. Notre Dame 9. TCU 10. Alabama 11. Northwestern 12. Ohio U 13. Hawaii 14. Marshall 15. Boise State 16. Utah 17. Baylor 18. South Carolina 19. Auburn 20. Miss. State 21. Illinois 22. USC (the real one) 23. Michigan State 24. West Virginia 25. Duke That looks much more satisfyingly weird! **Post Week 2 ratings, revised** 1. Oklahoma 2. ``` Notre Dame ``` 3. UCLA 4. Ohio State 5. Georgia 6. Bowling Green 7. Memphis 8. TAMU 9. Portland State (Kings of the Northwest!) 10. South Dakota State 11. Temple 12. Western Kentucky (lording it over their in-state rivals) 13. Toledo 14. Houston 15. Michigan State 16. Iowa 17. Tennessee 18. TCU 19. LSU 20. Alabama (They’re OK. They’re no South Dakota State or anything, but…) 21. Kentucky 22. BYU 23. Northwestern 24. Arizona 25. Utah The departure of South Carolina and Michigan from the rankings correspondingly deflates the rankings of Kentucky and Utah, but Bowling Green’s win over Maryland reflects a bit of glory onto Tennessee (which beat BGSU), which in turn lifts Oklahoma (which beat Tennessee) all the way from the unranked ranks to the very pinnacle (say sorry, **Barkis** ). ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2015-college-football-omnibus-thread/729398/110 "2015-09-16T19:30:08Z")
It’ll be fun to watch your rankings converge with the AP’s…which I expect they will fairly quickly, when conference play begins. ---
**Author:** ![Thing\_Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@Thing\_Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing_Fish)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2015-college-football-omnibus-thread/729398/111 "2015-09-16T20:39:45Z")
Feeling a lot better about Oregon’s prospects having found out that our QB played with a broken finger last weekend. If he did that well, hopefully he can do even better if it heals up, even if it means missing this weekend’s showdown with mighty Georgia State. ---
**Author:** ![Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barkis_is_Willin)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2015, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2015-college-football-omnibus-thread/729398/112 "2015-09-17T13:48:11Z")
That must be the shortest lived #1 ranking in any poll ever. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2015-college-football-omnibus-thread/729398/113 "2015-09-20T00:10:50Z")
With one game to go ACC is leading the mini ACC-B1G challenge this week 3 games to 1. UNC, VaTech, and Miami beat Illinois, Purdue, and Nebraska respectively. Northwestern beat Duke Pitt@Iowa just started. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Who](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Doctor\_Who](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Who)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2015-college-football-omnibus-thread/729398/114 "2015-09-20T01:26:28Z")
Go Dawgs! Good win over Scar! ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2015-college-football-omnibus-thread/729398/115 "2015-09-20T02:41:22Z")
Wow, that was an awesome sack (cal/tex game). This #9 Looney guy just whipped the QB right to the ground. Too bad it was by the facemask. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2015-college-football-omnibus-thread/729398/116 "2015-09-20T03:13:24Z")
Ole Miss leads Bama 17-10 at the half. Sloppy game for Bama, turning the ball over 3 times already. They’ve also switched QBs, going back to Coker after starting the other guy. Ole Miss is struggling to move the ball when they don’t get the turnovers, but their defense is looking good. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2015-college-football-omnibus-thread/729398/117 "2015-09-20T03:56:50Z")
Did Cal just beat Texas on a missed tying extra point? ---
**Author:** ![Robert163](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4af34b/32.png) [@Robert163](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robert163)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2015-college-football-omnibus-thread/729398/118 "2015-09-20T04:01:42Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > Ole Miss leads Bama 17-10 at the half. Sloppy game for Bama, turning the ball over 3 times already. They’ve also switched QBs, going back to Coker after starting the other guy. Ole Miss is struggling to move the ball when they don’t get the turnovers, but their defense is looking good. It’s 30 to 10 now towards the end of the 3rd quarter… ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2015-college-football-omnibus-thread/729398/119 "2015-09-20T04:07:17Z")
Yeah, well, the game I was watching (because that was what was on) the bears were leading the hooters by 21 late in the 3rd, but the hooters came back, to within a missed PAT of tying it. Tide could get their act together in their game. Not that I want to see that happen. To have them and Auburn both lose in the same week would be pretty satisfying. ---
**Author:** ![Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barkis_is_Willin)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2015-college-football-omnibus-thread/729398/120 "2015-09-20T05:03:16Z")
It’s been a pretty satisfying football Saturday. I was surprised how dominant Notre Dame was over GT. USC lost and if Ole Miss and BYU can hang on that would be just fine. Too bad Northern Illinois couldn’t pull off the miracle in Columbus but what an effort. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2015-college-football-omnibus-thread/729398.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2015-college-football-omnibus-thread/729398.md?page=7)