AP Poll 11/23

[meoveryouxinfinity]

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/rankingsindex

AP Top 25
1. Alabama (63) 11-0 1,622
2. Florida (2) 10-1 1,512
3. Oklahoma 10-1 1,486
4. Texas 10-1 1,482
5. USC 9-1 1,352
6. Penn State 11-1 1,238
7. Texas Tech 10-1 1,212
8. Utah 12-0 1,206
9. Boise State 11-0 1,064
10. Ohio State 10-2 1,043
11. Oklahoma State 9-2 997
12. Missouri 9-2 917
13. Georgia 9-2 874
14. TCU 10-2 750
15. Ball State 11-0 731
16. Cincinnati 9-2 640
17. Oregon State 8-3 604
18. Georgia Tech 8-3 339
19. Oregon 8-3 320
20. Boston College 8-3 309
20. Brigham Young 10-2 309
22. Michigan State 9-3 274
23. Florida State 8-3 214
24. Northwestern 9-3 145
25. Mississippi 7-4 127
Others Receiving Votes
West Virginia 120, Pittsburgh 108, Iowa 54, LSU 35, California 11, Tulsa 8, Western Michigan 8, South Carolina 5, Central Michigan 5, Connecticut 2, Nebraska 1, Rice 1.
Dropped From Rankings
LSU 18, Pittsburgh 20, Maryland 22, Miami (FL) 23, North Carolina 25.

[OKC Sooner]

Yesssssssssss!!!!! Take that, Whorns!!! :D

Now what does the Coaches poll do?

[meoveryouxinfinity]

Yesssssssssss!!!!! Take that, Whorns!!! :D
4 points.. wow just wow

[Boomer.....]

That lead will grow after next week.

Too bad the AP doesn't count for anything.

[Rogue]

Armageddon is upon us.

[nBoSTP]

I would feel better if this was the coaches or the Harris poll but its a start

[noobalicious]

WOW. Razor thin margin there. Makes me nervous for the Coaches poll.

Obviously Mississippi at #25 helps Florida out tremendously. I'm surprised we didn't get 1 or 2 first place votes though (Florida does by the logic that they're destroying good teams...).

I think we'll be good if we beat OSU at Stillwater and Cincinnatti wraps up the Big East. Destroying a 2-loss BCS conference champion and winning back-to-back games against top-10 caliber teams should get us in.

[Sirus]

i guess Florida stomping Citadel High school does count for something.:rolleyes:

[Jason White's Third Knee]

There isn't much reason to have Fla ahead of us. I haven't figured that one out. The SEC is getting a lot of love and I am not sure that they are really all that great. Time will tell.

[Jason White's Third Knee]

i guess Florida stomping Citadel High school does count for something.:rolleyes:


We could beat them.

[noobalicious]

Hmm Florida only ahead of us by 26 points though.

It's obvious that the voters are having trouble reconciling us, Texass, and Florida.

Good news is USC still isn't in consideration.

[JLEW1818]

Florida still lost to an unranked team at home, yet ranked ahead of 3 big 12 one loss teams.

Texas Tech only loss is to Oklahoma yet Penn State and USC lost to unranked teams, completely stupid, college football is a ****ing joke.

[Boomer.....]

Don't worry about the SEC teams. We just have to be in 3rd ahead of Texass and the SEC CG will knock one of the other teams out.

[noobalicious]

Florida still lost to an unranked team at home, yet ranked ahead of 3 big 12 one loss teams.

Texas Tech only loss is to Oklahoma yet Penn State and USC lost to unranked teams, completely stupid, college football is a ****ing joke.

Play-off! Play-off! Play-off!

Anyone?

[JLEW1818]

Don't worry about the SEC teams. We just have to be in 3rd ahead of Texass and the SEC CG will knock one of the other teams out.

yah i know, but still its a freaking joke how this system works, even if texas gets the nod, its bull **** how tech went down that much.

[TMcGee86]

Sweet, we win out and no matter what we get to claim a USC National Championship!

[TexasEx4OU]

There seems to be two standards by which most analysts are judging the one-loss teams: 1) Head-to-head, where applicable, and 2) Who's playing well now. What there doesn't seem to be is a whole lot of talk re: to whom the one-loss teams have lost. What frustrates me to no end is the fact that many people (Herbie, specifically) want to apply the "Who's playing well now" standard to Florida, yet then in the near-same-breath apply the "Head-to-head" standard to us vis a vis Texas.

Florida lost to an unranked team at home. We lost to a top five team on a neutral field. Texas lost to a top five (or six) team on that team's field. And Tech lost to a top five team on that team's field.

So, fine...apply head-to-head. All it does is give you the OU/Texas/Tech chaos. And since that doesn't really work, then go to either the "quality loss" barometer, or the "who's playing well now" yardstick. But whatever "metric" you use, you must consistently apply that same metric to each team. This cherry-picking of the metric that works for the team you want to pimp is complete horse****.

[GoTide]

Hello friends friends from the classy OU nation. Congrats on the great game last night. No way on this earth should Florida be ranked above OU in the AP. That's outrageous. Good luck the rest of the way. Well... except for maybe one. :)

[Iam4OUru]

AP = don't mean sh!t

[soonermix]

at this stage it doesn't matter.

all that matters is that we are above texas because no matter where they are ranked the fla/bama loser will fall after the sec champ game
so even though they don't really have any say in the bcs the ap poll still might have some lasting influence on other voters

[SoonerBacker]

Thanks for your comments, GoTide! But, as stated earlier, AP don't mean ****!

If we take care of business the rest of the way, we're in the Title Game.
Me? I'll be pulling for Bama the rest of the way. I'd like nothing more than an Oklahoma v Alabama matchup in Miami. Tide fans have shown nothing but class in contests against the SOONERS, both in Norman and in Bama.

Roll Tide and BOOMER SOONER!

[ARW3]

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Great post!

[josh09]

I dont care about Florida. Im just glad we're ahead of texas

[JLEW1818]

end this poll its not part of the BCS

[GreenSooner]

end this poll its not part of the BCS

Why? It's as good a poll as any! And I respect them for not taking part in the joke that is the BCS.

Polls are fine, but they shouldn't be deciding championships. NCAA basketball has it just right.

Keep the AP poll....but give us December Madness!

[JLEW1818]

I agree but its the system we are in so i'm going to say that the AP poll means nothing in the bcs.

and its not as good as poll as any. Harris and coaches are just a little more meaningful then the ap

[BoulderSooner79]

I can't get excited about the UF thing since it doesn't matter. But their loss to Ole Miss is looking more like a quality loss each week. What is looking more and more suspect is the cred they get for beating LSU and UGA, but no matter. Since we get an evening game on nationally TV again next week against a ranked team, we just have to play to our capabilities. The only thing that would throw a wet blanket on things would be a Baylor upset earlier in the day. (SicEm' - please just go for a "moral" victory :) )

[Veritas]

Meh, the press just wants to see a 1-2 matchup in the SEC title game.

[olevetonahill]

Meh, the press just wants to see a 1-2 matchup in the SEC title game.

Good Point Bro .
Oh and I to would Love to see a OU/Bammer MNC game :D

[Blues1]

A Oklahoma / Bama Game would Capture the Attention of The College Football World --- ~ ! Even more so than OU vs Florida, Because Bama would be undefeated -- The two most Long time famous programs in College Football going for "The Crystal" --- Now that would get Lots of Press Coverage --Think of all The Press that would get -- Even Lots of old stories about Bud and the Bear would also Re-Surface for that Game....! -- A newspapers man Dream --- JMHO.... :)

[olevetonahill]

A Oklahoma / Bama Game would Capture the Attention of The College Football World --- ~ ! Even more so than OU vs Florida, Because Bama would be undefeated -- The two most Long time famous programs in College Football going for "The Crystal" --- Now that would get Lots of Press Coverage --Think of all The Press that would get -- Even Lots of old stories about Bud and the Bear would also Re-Surface for that Game....! -- A newspapers man Dream --- JMHO.... :)

I believe we Will do OUR part .
I hope Bamma beats the snot out of the Gators ;)

[Scott D]

This (http://pollspeak.com/pollstalker/pollstalker.php?r=T&s=5&p=9&w=14&t1=75&t2=94&v=0) says a lot of interesting things.

[Curly Bill]

I believe we Will do OUR part .
I hope Bamma beats the snot out of the Gators ;)

Do Gators have snot...:confused:

[BoulderSooner79]

Do Gators have snot...:confused:

It's common knowledge they do.

http://www.bigcitystudio.com/gatorsnot.htm

[Curly Bill]

It's common knowledge they do.

http://www.bigcitystudio.com/gatorsnot.htm

Well, I'll be darn.

[Lott's Bandana]

"I'll take a shot 'o snot." - Blackbeard.