Darts anyone? This has ceased to be fun.
Dennis, as usual did the initial heavy lifting and I did a little tweaking. The floor is now open for comments. Please, when you complain about who is ranked and where, offer a reasonable suggestion as to who should be higher.
| Rank | Team | Delta |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | South Florida |  3 |
| 2 | Ohio State | — |
| 3 | Boston College | 2 |
| 4 | Oklahoma | 2 |
| 5 | South Carolina | 2 |
| 6 | Kentucky | 11 |
| 7 | LSU |  6 |
| 8 | Florida | — |
| 9 | West Virginia | 3 |
| 10 | Southern Cal | 1 |
| 11 | California | 8 |
| 12 | Arizona State | 6 |
| 13 | Missouri | 2 |
| 14 | Oregon | 1 |
| 15 | Kansas | 5 |
| 16 | Hawaii | 2 |
| 17 | Auburn | 4 |
| 18 | Virginia Tech | 5 |
| 19 | Texas | 5 |
| 20 | Cincinnati | 10 |
| 21 | Maryland | 1 |
| 22 | Texas Tech | 4 |
| 23 | Tennessee | 3 |
| 24 | Wake Forest | 2 |
| 25 | Michigan | 1 |
Standing By/Waitlisted: Penn State, Virginia, K-State and Alabama
It’s been that bad in college football that Michigan has found its way back into the top-25. I don’t know. I was poised to actually put UConn, Indiana or Boise St. in the poll, but the first two lost and BSU had a multi-OT shootout at home with Nevada this evening (that BSU did win) to kill that one.
I mean, for gods sake, Virginia is closing in on the top-25 at this point. Even as I argue against it.
Yes, I moved USF to #1. They have accomplished more this season than Ohio State, to this point.
Kentucky continues to yo-yo up and down the poll. Right now up because of beating LSU, though I expect them to plummet again if they lose to Florida this coming Saturday.
Cal takes a hard tumble. Not just for losing, but coming up so small at home against Oregon State.
USC drops another spot as they barely pulled out a weak victory rather than another embarrassing loss.
Cinci, Cinci, Cinci. You broke my wife’s heart by not taking back the Keg O’ Nails. Consolation trophy to come this week.
Oregon only gets a 1 spot bump because I’m not sold on them much longer with the injuries they had this weekend.
Really, it’s just a flippin’ mess. I hate seeing VT move that high just for beating Duke, but no one else is really showing much either. Same with Auburn, but if I’m going to guess at which great defense/crappy offense is better I’m going with Auburn.
A VT v. Auburn Bowl game would probably be the least watched game of the year.
Once again, I know we’re all supposed to be Big East homers in here… but I barely can agree with USF at #2 than at #1.
I guess they’re undefeated and had two big upset wins (one against the aforementioned offensively challenged Auburn), but what else? They beat a lot of bad teams, and had a tough time against Florida Atlantic… which is probably why they felt the need to kick the bejesus out of UCF to save face.
I feel that our conference has taken a step back this year. USF is a good team and deserves a high ranking, but you have to admit that the obscenely high ranking that they have now is at least 65% because of the good fortune of having half of the teams ranked ahead of you get upset every week.
But then again, the more I criticize this Bulls team (whom my fellow Big East homers have annointed the saviors of the conference apparently), the more they climb the polls.
And I have a feeling that with their remaining schedule the Bulls could go undefeated and go the BCS title game too. I could see maybe a 1-loss LSU going in place of them, but only if Ohio State holds at #1 (which I highly doubt will happen).
If you have a chance, watch a USF game (usually on ESPNU every week), they have a good offense, but in my opinion it’s Grothe that keeps the whole thing afloat. Without him that offense would be lethargic (look at what they did, or didn’t do, last year when he was hurt). That kid is an INSANE athlete.
Honestly, even though I’d take USF in an actual game (unless it was played in Boston in cold weather), I don’t feel that BC should be punished for beating a bad Notre Dame on the road by having a USF team that blew out a mid-major at home leapfrog them.
I know, I’m not being a good “Big East guy” today, but I’d rank ’em 1. OSU 2. BC 3. USF 4. LSU 5. Oklahoma
You can’t punish LSU THAT much for losing in OT on the road to a good Kentucky team. Unlike Cal and USC, they lost to a quality opponent away from home.
That is all.
tell your wife things still look good, cincy still has the flag team running around entertaining everyone and next week they will snatch back the river city trophy
Lets take a look at their undefeated schedule, shall we?
1. D-1AA Youngstown State
2. An Akron team that has lost to Indiana, Connecticut, and Temple…
3. A 2-4 Washington team that was just clobbered by Arizona State.
4. A Northwestern team that has lost to DUKE (Duke’s only win of the season I might add)
5. A 1-6 Minnesota team, who has lost to FLORIDA ATLANTIC.
6. An overrated and soon to be unranked Purdue.
7. And 2 days ago they beat powerhouse Kent State.
IMO USF has proven themselves more than OSU has, so I agree with Chas there. BC hasn’t beaten anyone noteworthy either.
As everyone is saying though, right now its just a matter of undefeated teams losing, and the shit rising to the top.
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With the UL loss, they need this win to get back on track, UC runs the spread, it is going to be ugly.
UC’s Quarterback can run, Check.
UC runs the spread offense, Check.
UC can play defense and defends the run very well, Check.
Prediction
Paperbag on my head at the end of the first quarter as I am yelling “OH NO WE SUCK AGAIN” and I am sleeping in my seat prior to the fourth quarter beginning as we are down by 30 + while our QB is tossing Matt C Inspired four yard passes on 3rd and 8.
I understand completely, I live in the Cincy area and have watched UC really come on the last season and a half.
They went from a laughing stock to a legit BE contender, why?
COACHING!!
The biggest problem UC is going to have is holding onto their coach Brian Kelly. Kelly is respected by the local media and by his peers in coaching circles.
I just don’t think we have a chance in hell to score more than the other team, because they’ll be playing a game against our defense. This won’t be UConn or Virginia bad, but still a loss. But i think by only 1 score – we may beat the spread! I mean, I thought we were going to lose the last game by 2 scores, and we stayed within 1! Moral victory!
We can score points, but the problem we are going to have on offense is keeping Bostick protected and healthy versus the UC pass rush.
UC is going to try to make us one dimensional by stopping the run and then tee off on getting to Bostick. Bostick has improved week in and week out but the UC defense is going to cause matchup problems with our o-line.
Our gameplan should consist of max pass protection and really develop a crisp short passing game to keep UC off-balance. We can run on them, but we have to mix up our calls, throw on first down, etc…
As always, I’m sure our coaches are working hard on developing a full-proof bend over and break it off in our asses strategy.
A win isn’t out of the question but when I look at our defense it really makes me wonder if our defense could stop the little sisters of the poor.
Just some something to chew on, Syracuse lost to Miami of Ohio by 3 points, UC destroyed Miami of Ohio, we can hang with Syracuse and Miami of Ohio, but not with UC, give the 10 points and bet the house.
That’s my take, see you at the game this weekend.
We constantly punish teams for playing and occasionaly losing to real teams – and keep rewarding teams that play no one – ie, the OSUs of the world. OSU wouldn’t beat anyone in your top 11 – lucky for them, they don’t play a single team that will end in your top 24…
…and then you have Michigan at 25. There are dozens of teams that have lost 2 games, and not one of them to a DIAA school. At least Virginia has only lost to 1 terrible team. Even Kansas State or Alabama. If they weren’t named “Michigan” you wouldn’t even be considering them.