# Which teams will be in the Rivals Top Ten for 2011?

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**Created:** [July 22, 2011, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-teams-will-be-in-the-rivals-top-ten-for-2011/589987 "2011-07-22T14:52:37Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 13, 2011, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-teams-will-be-in-the-rivals-top-ten-for-2011/589987/21 "2011-08-13T15:35:52Z")

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Just to call attention to an interesting fact as we move today toward Rivals’ selection of their #6 team, here’s how the Top Six looked back on 8/1, the last time I took a snapshot of the vote count after 19 had voted:

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Which teams will make Rivals Top Ten?  
This poll will close on 08-11-2011 at 10:00 AM 

 6 Boise State 17 89.47% 
 5 Alabama 16 84.21% 
 3 Oregon 15 78.95% 
 8 LSU 15 78.95% 
10 Oklahoma 14 73.68% 

 2 Stanford 13 68.42% 
14 Florida State 8 42.11% (8)
27 Nebraska 8 42.11% (9)
 4 TCU 7 36.84% (15) 
 7 Ohio State 7 36.84% (16)

25 South Carolina 7 36.84% (17)
 9 Arkansas 6 31.58% (14)
12 Wisconsin 6 31.58% (7)
19 Notre Dame 5 26.32% (13) 
24 Florida 4 21.05% (21)

11 Oklahoma State 3 15.79% (11)
36 West Virginia 3 15.79% (24)
64 Texas 3 15.79% (22) 
13 Virginia Tech 2 10.53% (12)
20 Texas A&M 2 10.53% (10)

22 Southern California 2 10.53% (19)
26 Utah 2 10.53% (26) 
31 Michigan State 2 10.53% (18) 
45 BYU 2 10.53% (25)
54 Georgia 2 10.53% (27)

40 Miami-Florida 1 5.26% (28)
50 Penn State 1 5.26% (23)
23 Arizona State 0 0% (20)  

***OTHER*** 1 5.26% 

Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 19  

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Regardless of how we looked before now, this seems prophetic to me. We did well as a group of 19, I’d say.

Just goes to substantiate that old maxim: In numbers there is quantity.

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**Post date:** [August 17, 2011, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-teams-will-be-in-the-rivals-top-ten-for-2011/589987/22 "2011-08-17T14:17:24Z")

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The mystery will be solved today. Will Bama or Oklahoma be #1?

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