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| Rank | Team | Delta |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alabama |  1 |
| 2 | Texas |  1 |
| 3 | Florida | |
| 4 | TCU | 1 |
| 5 | Cincinnati | 1 |
| 6 | Boise State | 1 |
| 7 | Oregon | 1 |
| 8 | Ohio State | 1 |
| 9 | Georgia Tech | 5 |
| 10 | Iowa | 1 |
| 11 | Penn State | 1 |
| 12 | Virginia Tech | 3 |
| 13 | Houston | |
| 14 | Miami (Florida) | 2 |
| 15 | Pittsburgh | 5 |
| 16 | Southern Cal | 3 |
| 17 | Oregon State | 3 |
| 18 | Wisconsin | 3 |
| 19 | Nebraska | 3 |
| 20 | Oklahoma State | 6 |
| 21 | LSU | 3 |
| 22 | Brigham Young | |
| 23 | California | 2 |
| 24 | Stanford | |
| 25 | Clemson | 8 |
| Last week's ballot | ||
Dropped Out: North Carolina (#18), Mississippi (#23).
Just a couple notes:
- Alabama replaces Texas at the top due to the appearance of Auburn on their resume and (yes even though Alabama needed a fourth-quarter drive to finish it off) the not-exactly-convincing win by Texas over A&M.
- Fine. I will rank BYU this week. Some of these four-loss chumps that couldn't finish off a rivalry game left me no choice. Utah can get bent, though.
- Wow - no one-loss teams at all this year, except for the future loser of the SECCG. Unless Cincy takes a dump against Pitt next week, or Texas fails to handle whatever B12 North putz stumbled into that championship game. (I guess that's Nebraska.)
1 comment:
Looks pretty good, I either agree with most of it or can see the rationale behind it. Still think Houston's too high for a team whose schedule is mostly meat (UCF, one of the teams who beat them, was essentially ejected from the field by Miami, who sits a spot behind Houston). Other than that, the one thing that really sticks out at me is Wisconsin being so high. Frankly, I don't even have them ranked at this point... Just for comparisons sake, I'll look at them against LSU at #21. LSU has 3 victories over teams in the 7-5 grouping in the SEC, who I think used this weekend to prove they belong on the field with pretty much anyone. Their losses are a 10-pointer to the #3 team at home, a 9-pointer to the #1 team on the road, and by 2 to Ole Miss on the road. Wisconsin, meanwhile, has marquee wins over Minnesota, Michigan State, and Fresno State. The best team ANY of those 3 have beaten is Northwestern, and I can't imagine they would've hung with the mediocre pack in the SEC. Meanwhile, Wisconsin lost by 18 at #8, by 10 to #10, and by 2 at Northwestern. Very similar schedules, just wisconsin's feels a little worse at every turn.
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