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There weren't very much upsets, especially when compared to last week. The polls are starting to solidify a bit as conference play starts for most teams this week. There are some important games that could ultimately change the landscape of things, but we'll see.

 

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

 

Dropped Out: Oklahoma (#9), Georgia (#17), Michigan (#21), California (#23).

This was the week for good teams to struggle against lesser foes and still win, I guess (well unless you're Houston). Boise State went back and forth against an FCS team, while Virginia Tech held off Duke and Iowa - a week after winning at Penn St. - barely beat Arkansas State. 

So with so little room for error, I did feel the need to penalize a few teams. The Broncos dropped from 6th last week to 8th. Virginia Tech, who had been 4th, fell to 7th and Iowa three spots to 16th. The team that did lose, Houston, dropped 14 spots to 24th. Their loss was bad, but we'll see how it goes. 

After that, the most progress came from Cincinnati. Mostly because they're undefeated and though they've yet to grab a really impressive win, it's hard to knock an unbeaten team when so many others are starting to lose. 

I reentered BYU into the rankings, though I wasn't entirely impressed with the Cougars' win over Utah State. The Utes, who had a bye, moved up two spots by default and TCU, after their win over SMU, broke into the top-ten.

One final note. In both the Coaches and AP poll, Oklahoma stayed ranked after losing at Miami. That's a bunch of bull...! A 2-2 team does not deserve to be ranked. I don't care if their losses came by a combined two points to ranked teams. So as you can see, I dropped the Sooners entirely out of the rankings, even though I had them at ninth last week. 

Not to say the Sooners are bad. They're going to have an entire season to prove their worth and get back into the rankings. But for now, they aren't worthy. 

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I like it.

I told you BYU was better than OU. ;-)

As for the rest, I personally think Auburn is better than Kansas, but I admit that I haven’t seen much of either of them (pieces of Auburn v. Tenn and Kansas v. S. Miss. Glad to see USC ahead of Ohio State.

One remaining problem: Iowa is below Penn State. I realize Iowa struggled in some games (although every game was a win)but they demolished Penn State 21-10 in Happy Valley and they’re undefeated, so it’s not like they have a loss holding them down. I actually think the Iowa ranking is about right, just that Penn State should be below them. Say Iowa at 15 and PSU at 17.

Everyone hates a pink-shirt-wearing communist.

by displacedute on Oct 5, 2009 3:21 PM MDT reply actions   0 recs

I actually agree with you.

I kinda flubbed Iowa’s ranking. I had planned to drop them a bit for their win over Arkansas State, but then forgot about them and realized they weren’t in the poll anymore after my first first draft.

So I put them in and must have just picked there.

by JazzyUte on Oct 5, 2009 3:34 PM MDT up reply actions   0 recs

I also would still put Houston ahead of Oklahoma State

but that’s just because of my opinion that if two teams have the same record and played, you shouldn’t rank the loser ahead of the winner. Houston is now 3-1, Oklahoma St. is 3-1, I think the winner deserves to be ahead of the loser, even though Houston losing to UTEP is embarrassing.

Everyone hates a pink-shirt-wearing communist.

by displacedute on Oct 5, 2009 3:54 PM MDT up reply actions   0 recs

OU...

I completely agree with you on OU dropping out. Why are they ranked when they have lost 2 games? Doesn’t make sense to me. A loss is a loss…even if it is by 1 point.

GO UTES!!

by Jman87 on Oct 6, 2009 6:01 PM MDT reply actions   0 recs

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