ap-poll Stories - Block U
TWITS Trivia: Before this week, when was the *last* time a new team reached #1?
Think getting to #1 is a big deal? You should. Because, if your team isn't one of the usual suspects, it doesn't happen often. Parity in college football is nice to talk about, but when it comes to the top of the polls, it's essentially non-existent. If it seems like it's always the same teams at...
Evaluating the Reevaluation: A Response to Spears
In the interests of full disclosure, I should state from the outset that Spears is an old friend of mine, to whom I am connected through the Phi Kappa Literary Society. As such, we have been known to debate with one another strictly for debate’s sake, and Spears, who was among the sharpest knives...
CGB Top-25 Week 2 Results
Yet another week of college football has passed us by. And what a week it has been. 1Ohio State (6) 2 2Alabama (13) 2 3Oregon (1) 2 4TCU (2) 2 5Boise State 4 6Nebraska-- 7Oklahoma 3 8Iowa 1 9Texas-- 10Florida 2 11Wisconsin-- 12Utah 5 13Arkansas 2 14California (4) 6 15LSU 6 16Miami (Fla.)...
A Quick Look at Cal Football AP Poll Rankings since 2002
Some journalists (*cough* Wilner and Ratto *cough*) love to point out about how Cal is consistently overrated by the media at the beginning only to fall through at the end. My first thought is if everyone knows about Cal's propensity to collapse, why rate Cal high in the first place?. But that's...
As much as I hate the thought of giving this idiot any more web traffic...
I'm looking at the Top 25 overview on SI.com's CFB page this morning, and a snippet of a headline catches my eye. I follow the link and sure enough, the headline reads: "Jon Wilner: Stanford Cardinal will upset Pac-10-leading Oregon Ducks" I don't know if anyone is familiar with Mr. Wilner, but...
Texas #1 in Both AP and Coaches
Just got a pager from Orangebloods and we are ranked number 1 in both polls. I guess Texas flying under the radar is now a thing of the past. I just hope we don't let it go to our heads. I'd love to see us run the table. but that will not be easy. I was hoping Mizzo would win so we could slide...
Appearances at #1
This graph from an AP story caught my attention: The Sooners remained No. 1 in the new AP poll Sunday, their record 97th time at the top. They had 51 of a possible 65 first-place votes, eight more than a week earlier when they broke a tie with Notre Dame for 95 appearances at No. 1. If OU's...
Texas #7 in new AP Poll
Here are the new rankings and Texas moves up one spot from last week. OU is the new number two and USC is still number one. If things stand as they are, our schedule looks brutal. It looks like we are going to play three teams in the top 10 and two in the top 5 (Tech should move up as they keep...
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