It's getting to the point of the season where the teams in the Power Rankings need to have atleast two quality wins to get into the poll. For this reason Cal and Louisville fell out after the Texas, Clemson and BC wins.
1. Ohio State Buckeyes - The Buckeyes no longer have anything standing between them and the showdown in the Horshoe on November 18th, they are the best team in the country right now and I don't think you can put up a legit argument for anyone else.Quality Wins: Penn St., @Texas, @Iowa
2. Michigan Wolverines - To not vote for Michigan as the #2 team in the country is mind boggling to me. First, everyone loves ND even though they aren't great and Michigan slugged them. Than everyone loved Iowa to start the season and Michigan completely shut down their offense. Plus, Wisconsin is the 3rd best team in the Big 10 and the Wolverines beat them easily. Quality Wins: Wisconsin, @ND, @Penn St., Iowa
3. Southern Cal Trojans - That win over Nebraska would have looked better had the Cornhuskers not fallen on their face in the last minutes of their game against Texas. USC didn't play this week and deserved to be at 3. Quality Wins: Nebraska, @Arkansas
4. Florida Gators - Bye week no reason for them to move anywhere.Quality Wins: @Rocky Top, Alabama, LSU
5. Tennessee Volunteers - The win against Alabama was a close one but it still is a quality win which solidifies their spot in the rankings just not enough to move ahead of the Gators. Quality Wins: Cal, @UGA, Alabama
6. Auburn Tigers - Tulane means nothing, thus I'm not going to move them up, even though the Arkansas loss is looking less like a terrible loss. Quality Wins: LSU, @South Carolina, Florida Bad Loss: Arkansas
7. Arkansas Razorbacks: Arkansas is moving up as other teams are losing quality wins. When you look at this years most impressive wins, Arkansas at Auburn ranks up there with Mich @ND and OSU @Tex as the top dominant performances. Quality Wins: Alabama, @Auburn Bad Loss: USC
8. Boston College Eagles - In name value BC's wins are huge, the question really lies on whether or not you believe FSU and VaTech are any good this year and most signs point to no. Either way Clemson is good and even though their win came due to a missed XP, its a win nonetheless.Quality Wins: @FSU, Clemson, VaTech Bad Loss: Chuck Amato Special
9. Texas Longhorns - Oklahoma's stock is going to move down once they start losing without APeete, but the win in Lincoln was a solid job especially considering the ineptitude of their kicker. Two quality wins help Texas land in the Power Rankings for the first time. Quality Wins: Oklahoma, @Nebraska
10. Clemson Tigers- They laid an absolute whooping on the Yellow Jackets and held Calvin Johnson, aka the best wideout in college football, to zero, nunca, nada, cero catches. But please don't wear those hideous purple uniforms anymore, they made me gag.Quality Wins: @FSU, @GaTech
11. Notre Dame Fighting Irish- Why must Notre Dame continuously pull out these victories down the stretch it is very annoying. Very annoying. Quality Wins: Penn St., @GaTechBad Loss: Michigan
Dropped Out: GaTech after they're beat down in Death Valley, Cal partially because the Oregon loss is diminished and its their only big win thus far, Louisville falls out as their wins versus K St. and Miami are less impressive by the second
Bubble Teams: Rutgers, Louisville, Cal
Past Power Rankings: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Notes
~West Virginia finally will play big games in the upcoming weeks. They have 5 games left in their season, the next being the biggest against Louisville if they win that then they will jump Louisville into the power rankings, then following they play Pitt as well as Rutgers. With the way Rutgers is playing if the WVU runs the table, I think they have a legit argument over a one loss team, but for now they haven't beaten anyone and stay off the list.
~Wisconsin is going to run the table down the stretch in the Big 10 go 11-1 with their only loss coming to Michigan and they're going to end up in the Capital One bowl or something similar. Ouch.
~How about Rutgers laying a beatdown on Pitt. Who knew this could ever be a good team, imagine if they ran the table and beat Louisville and WVU, they would get no love and really have no chance for the title game, yet think about it, wouldn't you be more impressed with a team that went undefeated and beat the Cards and Mountaineers than a team that went undefeated and beat Rutgers and Lousiville?
~Alright FSU how are you going to get beat down again at home, what is wrong with you, did Florida all of a sudden stop having the best athletes in the Nation. In addition what in the world are these horrendous black jerseys and why in the world do they say Unconquered on the side. Is that not completely ridiculous. Maybe more teams should write phrases on their unis like Duke could write Terrible on their leg.
~Think the ACC thought when they grabbed BC, Miami and Tech that the 2nd year it would be unquestioned that BC was the best of the three. I doubt it.
~The ESPN game last night (CIncy USF) had a score of 2-0 at halftime, thats miserable.
~At one point in time saturday, ND, Tenn, and Cal were all losing, yet all won. Ugh.
~Northwestern should be very proud of setting records for futility, its been part of their heritage for so long, its nice that they kept up the tradition. And is their any surprise that it was John L. Smith's team to come back, MSU is they weirdest team in college football. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if they did anything in a game, from beating a top team to losing to Duke by 30. Nothing would surprise me.
~Here's interesting little toy where you can play with one of the Computer Rankings the BCS uses.
~Houston busts his Nutt to Mitch Mustain.
1. Ohio State Buckeyes - The Buckeyes no longer have anything standing between them and the showdown in the Horshoe on November 18th, they are the best team in the country right now and I don't think you can put up a legit argument for anyone else.Quality Wins: Penn St., @Texas, @Iowa
2. Michigan Wolverines - To not vote for Michigan as the #2 team in the country is mind boggling to me. First, everyone loves ND even though they aren't great and Michigan slugged them. Than everyone loved Iowa to start the season and Michigan completely shut down their offense. Plus, Wisconsin is the 3rd best team in the Big 10 and the Wolverines beat them easily. Quality Wins: Wisconsin, @ND, @Penn St., Iowa
3. Southern Cal Trojans - That win over Nebraska would have looked better had the Cornhuskers not fallen on their face in the last minutes of their game against Texas. USC didn't play this week and deserved to be at 3. Quality Wins: Nebraska, @Arkansas
4. Florida Gators - Bye week no reason for them to move anywhere.Quality Wins: @Rocky Top, Alabama, LSU
5. Tennessee Volunteers - The win against Alabama was a close one but it still is a quality win which solidifies their spot in the rankings just not enough to move ahead of the Gators. Quality Wins: Cal, @UGA, Alabama
6. Auburn Tigers - Tulane means nothing, thus I'm not going to move them up, even though the Arkansas loss is looking less like a terrible loss. Quality Wins: LSU, @South Carolina, Florida Bad Loss: Arkansas
7. Arkansas Razorbacks: Arkansas is moving up as other teams are losing quality wins. When you look at this years most impressive wins, Arkansas at Auburn ranks up there with Mich @ND and OSU @Tex as the top dominant performances. Quality Wins: Alabama, @Auburn Bad Loss: USC
8. Boston College Eagles - In name value BC's wins are huge, the question really lies on whether or not you believe FSU and VaTech are any good this year and most signs point to no. Either way Clemson is good and even though their win came due to a missed XP, its a win nonetheless.Quality Wins: @FSU, Clemson, VaTech Bad Loss: Chuck Amato Special
9. Texas Longhorns - Oklahoma's stock is going to move down once they start losing without APeete, but the win in Lincoln was a solid job especially considering the ineptitude of their kicker. Two quality wins help Texas land in the Power Rankings for the first time. Quality Wins: Oklahoma, @Nebraska
10. Clemson Tigers- They laid an absolute whooping on the Yellow Jackets and held Calvin Johnson, aka the best wideout in college football, to zero, nunca, nada, cero catches. But please don't wear those hideous purple uniforms anymore, they made me gag.Quality Wins: @FSU, @GaTech
11. Notre Dame Fighting Irish- Why must Notre Dame continuously pull out these victories down the stretch it is very annoying. Very annoying. Quality Wins: Penn St., @GaTechBad Loss: Michigan
Dropped Out: GaTech after they're beat down in Death Valley, Cal partially because the Oregon loss is diminished and its their only big win thus far, Louisville falls out as their wins versus K St. and Miami are less impressive by the second
Bubble Teams: Rutgers, Louisville, Cal
Past Power Rankings: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Notes
~West Virginia finally will play big games in the upcoming weeks. They have 5 games left in their season, the next being the biggest against Louisville if they win that then they will jump Louisville into the power rankings, then following they play Pitt as well as Rutgers. With the way Rutgers is playing if the WVU runs the table, I think they have a legit argument over a one loss team, but for now they haven't beaten anyone and stay off the list.
~Wisconsin is going to run the table down the stretch in the Big 10 go 11-1 with their only loss coming to Michigan and they're going to end up in the Capital One bowl or something similar. Ouch.
~How about Rutgers laying a beatdown on Pitt. Who knew this could ever be a good team, imagine if they ran the table and beat Louisville and WVU, they would get no love and really have no chance for the title game, yet think about it, wouldn't you be more impressed with a team that went undefeated and beat the Cards and Mountaineers than a team that went undefeated and beat Rutgers and Lousiville?
~Alright FSU how are you going to get beat down again at home, what is wrong with you, did Florida all of a sudden stop having the best athletes in the Nation. In addition what in the world are these horrendous black jerseys and why in the world do they say Unconquered on the side. Is that not completely ridiculous. Maybe more teams should write phrases on their unis like Duke could write Terrible on their leg.~Think the ACC thought when they grabbed BC, Miami and Tech that the 2nd year it would be unquestioned that BC was the best of the three. I doubt it.
~The ESPN game last night (CIncy USF) had a score of 2-0 at halftime, thats miserable.
~At one point in time saturday, ND, Tenn, and Cal were all losing, yet all won. Ugh.
~Northwestern should be very proud of setting records for futility, its been part of their heritage for so long, its nice that they kept up the tradition. And is their any surprise that it was John L. Smith's team to come back, MSU is they weirdest team in college football. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if they did anything in a game, from beating a top team to losing to Duke by 30. Nothing would surprise me.
~Here's interesting little toy where you can play with one of the Computer Rankings the BCS uses.
~Houston busts his Nutt to Mitch Mustain.
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