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This is very 15-years-ago, but I was procrastinating:
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college football poll - week 8
Not a ton of changes. Amazingly, the Washington effect is still going strong.
1 - Alabama (8-0) (28.515625) (1)
2 - Iowa (8-0) (28.0234375) (2)
3 - Oregon (6-1) (27.046875) (4)
4 - LSU (6-1) (26.578125) (6)
5 - Southern California (6-1) (26.375) (7)
6 - TCU (7-0) (25.32421875) (9)
7 - Pittsburgh (7-1) (24.71875) (13)
8 - Florida (7-0) (24.46875) (3)
9 - Virginia Tech (5-2) (24.46484375) (5)
10 - Boise St. (7-0) (23.9375) (10)
11 - Notre Dame (5-2) (23.8984375) (17)
12 - Texas (7-0) (23.80859375) (11)
13 - Georgia Tech (7-1) (23.60546875) (8)
14 - Ohio St. (6-2) (22.87109375) (16)
15 - Oklahoma St. (6-1) (22.1875) (21)
16 - Cincinnati (7-0) (22.0234375) (24)
17 - Arizona (5-2) (21.76953125) (22)
18 - Houston (6-1) (21.734375) (20)
19 - Washington (3-5) (21.34375) (15)
20 - Auburn (5-3) (21.3203125) (12)
21 - Kansas (5-2) (20.640625) (23)
22 - Clemson (4-3) (20.4921875) (NR)
23 - West Virginia (6-1) (20.2421875) (NR)
24 - Stanford (5-3) (20.2265625) (18)
25 - California (5-2) (20.21875) (NR)
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bcs bowl projections
So, let’s make the highly flawed assumption that my poll is infallible and if one team is ranked higher than the other team, they will win any matchup between them.
Done laughing? Okay, under this assumption, let’s see who will play in each BCS bowl game.
National Championship Game: Alabama v. Texas
By our assumption, Alabama and Florida both win out and meet in the SEC championship game, aka the National Semifinal Game, which the Tide wins. Texas also wins out. Although they’re only #11 in my poll, they’re currently #3 in the BCS poll, and that’s what matters. There’s your #1 and #2.Rose Bowl: Iowa v. Oregon
Iowa wins out, going 12-0. Thanks to the Big Ten’s big game egg-laying in recent years, voters keep them out of the championship game. Oregon finishes the season 11-1 after beating USC on Halloween to claim the Pac-10 championship.Orange Bowl: Miami v. Pitt
Let’s take a look at the ACC race. The ACC Coastal is an interesting animal. Currently, UVA is sitting pretty at the top with an undefeated conference record. However, I claim they’ll only have one more win, when the Blue Devils come to town. The Techs and Miami each have one loss. Georgia Tech wins out, going 11-1. Miami wins out, also going 11-1. VT wins out, going 10-2. But all three are 7-1 in the ACC, 4-1 in their division. And they’ve got a nice little paper-rock-scissors thing going. GT beat VT who beat Miami who beat GT. I must say I got a headache reading the ACC tiebreaker rules, but my assumption would be that VT would be eliminated because of their nonconference loss, and then it goes to head-to-head. ‘Canes it is. Phew. They play somebody in the ACC championship (BC, Clemson, or Wake, who knows) and win.
Now to the Big East. Pitt and Cincinattuh meet on Dec. 5 with unblemished conference records, and Wannstache’s men pull the upset.Sugar Bowl: Florida v. TCU
The Sugar Bowl has become the SEC Consolation Game in recent years, and as losers of the SEC Championship, that’s where the Gators will find themselves. It’s also been home to the BCS Buster the past two years. I have TCU higher than Boise St. in my rankings (#9 and #10, respectively), but the BCS has the Donks #4 and the Horned Frogs #8. After Utah and BYU go down, I think they’ll switch places in the BCS as well. Personally, I’d love to see both of them make BCS bowls, but not gonna happen.Fiesta Bowl: USC v. Georgia Tech
This one’s a crapshoot. The Fiesta bowl usually pits a Big 12 team versus an at-large. With Texas going to the NC game, I say pick the runners up from the two best conferences not named the SEC: the Pac-10 and ACC. GT gets the nod over VT as they’ll have the better overall record, not to mention the head-to-head.And there you have it. I’ll be amazed if I end up getting a single thing right.
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big ten rankings
As a Columbus native and a Northwestern alum, I like me some Big Ten football. So I’m going to dive a little deeper into my rankings and break down the conference. I may do this with other conferences over time.
- Iowa (#2 overall)
Seven and oh. They’re getting the job done.
Best win: #22 Arizona
- Ohio St. (#16 overall)
Pryor and Tressel effigies are probably being burned en masse in Columbus right now, but the Buckeyes are still a good team. I honestly don’t understand all the lack-of-offense hate I’m seeing. Hasn’t winning games with defense and special teams been OSU’s M.O. this entire decade?
Best win: #38 Wisconsin
- Michigan (#34 overall)
Michigan is indirectly the beneficiary of what I’ve been calling the Washington effect. You see, the Washington Huskies have a losing record, but happen to be ranked #15 in my poll. Why? Their 4 losses don’t count against them (other than the fact that they’re not wins, and wins give you more points). But their 3 wins are doing a lot for them – they beat #32 Idaho, #7 USC, and #22 Arizona. As these three teams continue to win, Washington’s “win total” continues to increase, and they hang around in the rankings despite not winning so much themselves.
Anyways, back to Michigan. They beat Notre Dame, who beat Washington. All those points that Washington racked up help bolster the Wolverines’ score.
Best win: #17 Notre Dame
- Wisconsin (#38 overall)
I must say I was disappointed that googling bret bielema is a douchebag only returns 315 hits. After last year’s crashing and burning from a preseason Top 5 ranking to needing to go to overtime against Cal Poly to guarantee a bowl bid, I was hoping the Badgers would continue their decline. (I’m still bitter that Wisconsin informed me of my rejection from their graduate math program via an e-mail which ended up in my junk folder rather than paying for a stamp, if you couldn’t tell.) However, they’re looking pretty solid.
Best win: #43 Minnesota
- Penn St. (#39 overall)
Really? JoePa’s team is all the way back here? Makes sense when you look at who’ve they’ve beaten: #110 Akron, #91 Syracuse, #76 Temple, #110 Illinois, FCS Eastern Illinois, and #43 Minny. They’ll move up if they can beat some decent teams.
Best win: #43 Minnesota
- Minnesota (#43 overall)
I love Goldy, the Gophers’ mascot. Last year, he dressed like a pirate for Talk Like a Pirate Day and as the Joker for Halloween. Yes, this a dude in a costume in another costume! When I was little and my dad took me to Buckeye football and basketball games, I spent probably 40% of the time watching Brutus. (Another 50% was watching the animations on the scoreboard and the final 10% actually watching the game.) Seeing mascots doing cool stuff brings out the little kid in me.
Oh, and Minny’s playing halfway decent football, too.
Best win: #45 Purdue
- Purdue (#45 overall)
Purdue has exactly two wins. One of those happens to be over Ohio State. They have a little Washington effect of their own going on, just not to the extent of the Huskies.
Best win: #16 Ohio State, duh
- Michigan St. (#56 overall)
Sparty has basically been meh. The Michigan win was solid, and the NU win okay, but that’s basically all they’ve done.
Best win: #34 Michigan
- Northwestern (#66 overall)
As much as it pains me, the Wildcats just haven’t been able to get the job done this year. They’ve held the lead at some point in each of their three losses (and two of them in the fourth quarter), but aren’t able to finish. Their competition has been mostly atrocious (Eastern Michigan and Miami U. are both winless and thus contribute nothing to their “win total”), but the win against Purdue saves them from an even lower ranking.
Best win: #45 Purdue
- Indiana (#83 overall)
Indiana has looked halfway decent this year, swine-flu-induced loss to UVA aside. They’ll have a chance to make a statement in the coming weeks as the meat of their schedule comes up.
Best win: #77 Western Michigan
- Illinois (#110 overall)
There are currently 11 teams in the country ranked #110. These 11 teams consist of those who are either winless or who have only been victorious when playing an FCS opponent. I guess the Zookster can recruit, but that’s about it.
Best win: FCS Illinois St.
- Iowa (#2 overall)
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conference rankings
I was curious how the conferences stacked up with each other based on my ranking system. So I ranked them based on the average of their teams’ rankings. For simplicity, the independents are treated as a conference. Here’s the result, as of the week 7 poll:
1 - Pacific-10 (29.9)
2 - Southeastern (36.5833333333333)
3 - Atlantic Coast (42.3333333333333)
4 - Big Ten (48.3636363636364)
5 - Big 12 (50.5833333333333)
6 - FBS Independent (55)
7 - Big East (55.125)
8 - Mountain West (72.1111111111111)
9 - Conference USA (75.0833333333333)
10 - Mid-American (82.3076923076923)
11 - Western Athletic (83.3333333333333)
12 - Sun Belt (93)I was a little surprised with the Pac-10 rocking the top spot over the SEC. I guess that’s what happens with Vandy stinking it up at #107. And no love for the Big 12!
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college football poll - week 7
I updated my Perl script to include each team’s actual record so I didn’t have to look each one up every time I was curious. Texas returns to the poll after a week’s absence. U-Dub, despite its losing record, remains in the Top 15. On a related note, I was visiting Seattle this weekend and snuck into Husky Stadium to use the bathroom this morning.
1 - Alabama (7-0) (25.203125) (1)
2 - Iowa (7-0) (23.146484375) (6)
3 - Florida (6-0) (22.33984375) (4)
4 - Oregon (5-1) (22.08984375) (5)
5 - Virginia Tech (5-2) (22.03515625) (2)
6 - LSU (5-1) (21.96484375) (3)
7 - Southern California (5-1) (21.69921875) (9)
8 - Georgia Tech (6-1) (20.48828125) (17)
9 - TCU (6-0) (20.48046875) (14)
10 - Boise St. (6-0) (20.41015625) (10)
11 - Texas (6-0) (20.13671875) (NR)
12 - Auburn (5-2) (19.23046875) (13)
13 - Pittsburgh (6-1) (19.02734375) (16)
14 - Georgia (4-3) (18.8505859375) (19)
15 - Washington (3-4) (18.81640625) (7)
16 - Ohio St. (5-2) (18.52099609375) (12)
17 - Notre Dame (4-2) (17.794921875) (11)
18 - Stanford (4-3) (17.361328125) (8)
19 - Miami (FL) (5-1) (17.30078125) (23)
20 - Houston (5-1) (17.17578125) (NR)
21 - Oklahoma St. (5-1) (17.1669921875) (NR)
22 - Arizona (4-2) (16.8427734375) (NR)
23 - Kansas (5-1) (16.7578125) (18)
24 - Cincinnati (6-0) (16.345703125) (NR)
25 - Boston College (5-2) (16.03125) (20)
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college football poll - week 6
With LSU’s loss to Florida, they drop from the top spot to put Alabama in the lead. Florida jumps up to #4, but still behind LSU until they get another quality win or two. I’m amazed at 3-3 Washington’s staying power in the top 10, pretty much still riding on that USC win. The three teams that beat U-Dub (LSU, Stanford, and ND) all remain high in the rankings as well. Alas, despite beating San Jose St. to go 5-1, Idaho drops from the rankings.
1 - Alabama (22.720703125) (2)
2 - Virginia Tech (20.734375) (3)
3 - LSU (19.474609375) (1)
4 - Florida (18.51953125) (NR)
5 - Oregon (18.49267578125) (8)
6 - Iowa (17.24853515625) (7)
7 - Washington (16.8984375) (9)
8 - Stanford (16.349609375) (5)
9 - Southern California (15.39208984375) (4)
10 - Boise St. (15.355224609375) (10)
11 - Notre Dame (15.32421875) (6)
12 - Ohio St. (15.1544189453125) (19)
13 - Auburn (15.1111450195312) (11)
14 - TCU (14.75390625) (17)
15 - Wake Forest (14.5625) (18)
16 - Pittsburgh (14.328125) (NR)
17 - Georgia Tech (13.8671875) (13)
18 - Kansas (13.58984375) (21)
19 - Georgia (13.576171875) (23)
20 - Boston College (12.8203125) (14)
21 - Michigan (12.693359375) (15)
22 - BYU (12.59765625) (NR)
23 - Miami (FL) (12.453125) (12)
24 - Oregon St. (12.2998046875) (NR)
25 - Wisconsin (12.230712890625) (16)
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mumme poll
I registered for the Mumme Poll, which appears to be somewhat of a poor man’s BlogPoll in that anyone can contribute without having to be a major college football blogger. Considering that I post once a week, and that my posts are largely written by a Perl script with little work on my own part, I certainly do not fall in said category.
Anywho, now the friedcheese.org poll, in addition to standing on its own, will also be a tiny cog in a larger poll.
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college football poll - week 5
So… Florida is #1 in a gajillion polls. And they drop out of mine! I guess that’s what happens after a bye week to a team who hasn’t beaten anyone who currently has better than a .500 record.
LSU returns to the top spot after taking down Georgia. Lots of love for the Pac-10 with four teams in the top 10. Notre Dame appears out of nowhere after their OT win against U-Dub. And … my Idaho Vandals make their poll debut after a win over the Colorado State Rams on Saturday! I attended the game, a “Blackout” of the Kibbie Dome, where I was offered Jim Beam by strangers, possibly dislocated my thumb from applauding too much, and rushed the field afterwards, where I bumped into our starting QB and almost got tripped by a wire connected to an ESPNU camera.
1 - LSU (15.65576171875) (5)
2 - Alabama (14.32080078125) (2)
3 - Virginia Tech (13.32666015625) (1)
4 - Southern California (12.927490234375) (14)
5 - Stanford (12.713623046875) (11)
6 - Notre Dame (12.2035522460938) (NR)
7 - Iowa (11.6283569335938) (4)
8 - Oregon (11.625732421875) (6)
9 - Washington (11.4696044921875) (7)
10 - Boise St. (10.933837890625) (3)
11 - Auburn (10.8937458992004) (18)
12 - Miami (FL) (10.6572265625) (8)
13 - Georgia Tech (10.642578125) (10)
14 - Boston College (10.5693359375) (NR)
15 - Michigan (10.3517761230469) (9)
16 - Wisconsin (10.2285690307617) (NR)
17 - TCU (10.04443359375) (22)
18 - Wake Forest (10.0322265625) (NR)
19 - Ohio St. (9.91778206825256) (19)
20 - Clemson (8.95654296875) (15)
21 - Kansas (8.89527893066406) (16)
22 - Texas (8.77061867713928) (12)
23 - Georgia (8.54788398742676) (17)
24 - Idaho (8.14642536640167) (NR)
25 - Cincinnati (8.13067626953125) (24)
dropped out: Florida, BYU, Oklahoma St., South Carolina, North Carolina -
college football poll - week 4
Here it is. The Hokies move into the top spot with their win over the ‘Canes. Iowa also moves up big time after braving the Whiteout to take down Penn State.
1 - Virginia Tech (9.7646484375) (8)
2 - Alabama (9.3349609375) (2)
3 - Boise St. (9.05859375) (3)
4 - Iowa (8.7109375) (21)
5 - LSU (8.6171875) (1)
6 - Oregon (7.873046875) (10)
7 - Washington (7.296875) (4)
8 - Miami (FL) (7.291015625) (5)
9 - Michigan (7.1240234375) (6)
10 - Georgia Tech (7.01123046875) (NR)
11 - Stanford (6.8046875) (NR)
12 - Texas (6.71875) (15)
13 - Florida (6.625) (21)
14 - Southern California (6.59375) (13)
15 - Clemson (6.1005859375) (15)
16 - Kansas (6) (15)
17 - Georgia (5.984375) (NR)
18 - Auburn (5.734375) (7)
19 - Ohio St. (5.49609375) (21)
20 - BYU (5.24609375) (NR)
21 - North Carolina (5.12060546875) (9)
22 - TCU (5.05029296875) (NR)
23 - Oklahoma St. (4.9921875) (15)
24 - Cincinnati (4.984375) (20)
25 - South Carolina (4.96875) (NR)
dropped out: Penn St., Connecticut, Pittsburgh, Minnesota, California, UCLA
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