Coaches Poll - USA Today

[Blues1]

OCT 10, 2009

As We All know after we BEAT Texas this week they will still be Ranked Higher than OU


Rank Team (first-place votes) Record Points Last week
1. Florida (53) 5-0 1,468 1
2. Texas (1) 5-0 1,402 2
3. Alabama (5) 6-0 1,378 3
4. Virginia Tech 5-1 1,241 5
5. Southern California 4-1 1,175 7
6. Boise State 5-0 1,170 6
7. Ohio State 5-1 1,122 8
8. TCU 5-0 979 9
9. Cincinnati 5-0 973 10
10. LSU 5-1 944 4
11. Miami (Fla.) 4-1 847 11
12. Iowa 6-0 785 14
13. Penn State 5-1 782 12
14. Oklahoma State 4-1 676 13
15. Kansas 5-0 640 15
16. Oregon 5-1 620 17
17. Nebraska 4-1 491 22
18. Oklahoma 3-2 447 21
19. Brigham Young 5-1 441 20
20. Georgia Tech 5-1 420 23
21. South Florida 5-0 305 24
22. South Carolina 5-1 279 NR
23. Houston 4-1 96 NR
24. Missouri 4-1 90 18
25. Notre Dame 4-1 76 NR

Dropped out
No. 16 Mississippi (3-2, lost to No. 3 Alabama 22-3), No. 19 Auburn (5-1, lost to Arkansas 44-23), No. 25 Wisconsin (5-1, lost to then-No. 8 Ohio State 31-13).

[tru2ou]

Wow, OU still plays four teams ranked above them. I hope this team sees the opportunity in front of them.

- Tru

[stoopified]

Take care of business we can still be a Top 10 team.We have games against (5) ranked teams,FOUR of them ranked higher than us(#2 UT,#14 oSu,#15 KU,#17 NU).

[SbOrOiNaEnR]

Looks like Boise State has climbed about as far as they possibly can. USC has already jumped them, and it's just a matter of time before more 1-loss teams do the same.

[Desert Sapper]

Looks like Boise State has climbed about as far as they possibly can. USC has already jumped them, and it's just a matter of time before more 1-loss teams do the same.

Va Tech, too. Ohio State's not far behind.

[soonerborn30]

If they can hold at 6 aren't they an auto-bid? I thought 6th was the magic number?

[meoveryouxinfinity]

We're going to have another killer sched next year.

[MyT Oklahoma]

Just play one week at a time and take care of business each and every week.

So who do we play next week anyway? :rolleyes:

[goingoneight]

I don't care what any SEC homer says... our schedule is tops as far as SOS goes IMO.

[tulsaoilerfan]

Miami might argue that

[soonerlaw]

I imagine BYU has got be a little p.o.'ed having beat us and having one less loss and still being behind us. ha!

[Widescreen]

OCT 10, 2009

As We All know after we BEAT Texas this week they will still be Ranked Higher than OU



That's probably true, which is OK since we've got 2 losses. The thing that cracks me up about that is that if we somehow manage to win out and win the conference, Texas will not be going to the MNC with only 1 loss since they didn't win their conference. I'm reasonably sure the voters won't let a 2nd place team in a conference got to the MNC again (and the computers won't help much since their schedule is mediocre at best). That would be funny.

[StoopTroup]

There is only ONE team I'm focusing on right now.

[Desert Sapper]

I imagine BYU has got be a little p.o.'ed having beat us and having one less loss and still being behind us. ha!

Aaaah the beauty of college football and the inherent BS rankings bias.

[IronHorseSooner]

That's probably true, which is OK since we've got 2 losses. The thing that cracks me up about that is that if we somehow manage to win out and win the conference, Texas will not be going to the MNC with only 1 loss since they didn't win their conference. I'm reasonably sure the voters won't let a 2nd place team in a conference got to the MNC again (and the computers won't help much since their schedule is mediocre at best). That would be funny.

They would be faced with the CU-NU situation back in 2001. CU obliterated NU, but had two early season losses when they had some guys injured. We all know what happened. In all fairness, Oregon should have went to the MNC that year against Miami, as they TCB with Colorado in the Fiesta Bowl. It will be interesting to see how pollsters treat us throughout the year, if we beat *, KU, and Nebbish in the next four weeks.

Which brings me to my ire with college football polls. They often presume that an undefeated team is better than a 1-loss team, and that a 2-loss team is automatically worse than a 1-loss team. If that 2-loss team would be like us, and we were to win out, who's to say that we are worse than, let's say SUC, or Oregon? I mean, YOU PLAY WITHOUT ARGUABLY THE BEST PLAYER IN AMERICA, AND YOU LOSE TWO GAMES BY A TOTAL OF TWO POINTS! On top of that, the player in the discussion is the reigning Heisman Trophy Winner, and likely, the #1 player in the 2010 NFL Draft, and furthermore, those games were away from home against two Top 20 teams.

Evidence that this compensation happens in College BBALL is what happened to OUr good guys last year. Even though we dropped 3 of 4, pollsters and the NCAA Committee realized that two of those losses came without Blake, and against KU and *, we had chances to win both of them without him. In the end, we still ended up with a #2 seed, which is a benchmark for Coach Capel and this program.

[JLEW1818]

USC has to go to Oregon


everybody is forgetting about them