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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.
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.
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!
I wonder if BYU get ranked if they beat UCLA and Michigan in the next two weeks.
… With Hail Marys!!!
If you mean the AP poll, BYU are already at #19.
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
- Ohio State
- Portland State (probably their highest ranking ever!!)
- South Dakota State
- Temple
- Western Kentucky
- UCLA
- BYU
- Notre Dame
- TCU
- Alabama
- Northwestern
- Ohio U
- Hawaii
- Marshall
- Boise State
- Utah
- Baylor
- South Carolina
- Auburn
- Miss. State
- Illinois
- USC (the real one)
- Michigan State
- West Virginia
- Duke
That looks much more satisfyingly weird!
Post Week 2 ratings, revised
- Oklahoma
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Notre Dame - UCLA
- Ohio State
- Georgia
- Bowling Green
- Memphis
- TAMU
- Portland State (Kings of the Northwest!)
- South Dakota State
- Temple
- Western Kentucky (lording it over their in-state rivals)
- Toledo
- Houston
- Michigan State
- Iowa
- Tennessee
- TCU
- LSU
- Alabama (They’re OK. They’re no South Dakota State or anything, but…)
- Kentucky
- BYU
- Northwestern
- Arizona
- 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).
It’ll be fun to watch your rankings converge with the AP’s…which I expect they will fairly quickly, when conference play begins.
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.
That must be the shortest lived #1 ranking in any poll ever.
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.
Go Dawgs! Good win over Scar!
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.
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.
Did Cal just beat Texas on a missed tying extra point?
It’s 30 to 10 now towards the end of the 3rd quarter…
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.
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.