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This week was good for teams on the cusp. Not so much for figuring out who to rank, though.

RankTeamDelta
1 Alabama 2
2 Florida 1
3 Texas 1
4 Southern Cal
5 Cincinnati 1
6 Boise State 1
7 TCU 3
8 Iowa 6
9 Miami (Florida) 2
10 LSU 1
11 Oregon 1
12 Georgia Tech 5
13 Penn State 3
14 Houston 4
15 Oklahoma State 4
16 Utah 5
17 Virginia Tech 12
18 Brigham Young 4
19 Pittsburgh
20 Texas Tech
21 West Virginia
22 Central Michigan
23 Kansas 10
24 Ohio State 16
25 South Carolina 2
Last week's ballot

 

Dropped Out: Nebraska (#15), South Florida (#20), Auburn (#24), Notre Dame (#25).

Firstly, I put Alabama at number one. I was not impressed with either three, but the Tide looked the least bad. 

With Virginia Tech's loss, every team pretty much jumped a spot in the top-ten who were behind them. Iowa saw the most movement, jumping to 8th. 

I might get hit with the homer card for putting Utah at 16th, but outside of BYU, I don't see how any team behind them that deserves to be ranked ahead of the Utes. 

And that was the general problem. I didn't want to rank South Carolina, but I couldn't find someone to take their place. 

Nebraska got abused, at home, by Texas Tech. At two losses, they can't remain. South Florida was barely ranked when they lost badly at home to Cincinnati. Auburn has now lost two in a row and Notre Dame, though a valiant effort, went down to defeat for the second time this season.

So who else gets in? Idaho? Yeah right. Basically, with all the parity in college football this year, it's tough finding teams to fill out the complete top-25. Maybe they should go back to making it a top-20. 

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My only thought this week is…damn do we need TCU to whip BYU’s ass.

"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates

by slc ranger on Oct 19, 2009 9:11 AM MDT reply actions   0 recs

that is going to happen. i checked the weather and for now it looks good.

it could change. it would also help tcu pass boise if clemson won there 3rd in a row over miami this week. tcu had early road wins vs virginia who won again and clemson. peace.

by wolfmanshowlforever on Oct 19, 2009 12:50 PM MDT up reply actions   0 recs

Looks good.

I don’t see any significant problems. Idaho is 6-1, so maybe it’s time to throw them a vote, as crazy as that sounds, but I can understand not ranking them. Other than that, looks good. GA Tech ahead of VA Tech, Houston ahead of OK State, etc.

Everyone hates a pink-shirt-wearing communist.

by displacedute on Oct 19, 2009 10:01 AM MDT reply actions   0 recs

How great would it be...

if Idaho knocked off Boise St. in Nov.?

"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates

by slc ranger on Oct 19, 2009 11:36 AM MDT up reply actions   0 recs

It would be the largest kill in rankings ever recorded in the AP poll. Boise State would probably dissapear.

by cousin on Oct 20, 2009 12:24 AM MDT up reply actions   0 recs

If we cut the poll to 20 people won't be able to make that 20th pick and will want to shrink the poll to 15.

At least thats the way the playoff argument works ; )

Oklahoma, even with three losses, might warrant a #25 spot. This would be with a lot of mass, so other teams would tend to jump them as they claim a spot in the rankings.

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by utesfan100 on Oct 19, 2009 12:04 PM MDT reply actions   0 recs

i'm glad you have central michigan in your top 25.

they have a game vs bowling gren this week but after that it’s easy pickings for them. they could go 12 -1 b/c they do have a mac championship game. dan lafeouver is the best qb not many people know about. just look at his four year stats. they year tebow did his 20/20 thing. d.l. not only passed for 3000 yards he also ran for 1000 yards, he also passed for over 20 td’s and he came up 1 short on the running td’s. what i’m saying is he would have been the only qb in ncaa history to have those stats if he had one more rushing td for just that year. penn state is vastly over-rated but everything else looks good. good job.

by wolfmanshowlforever on Oct 19, 2009 12:48 PM MDT reply actions   0 recs

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