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college football poll - week 13
The SEC invades the top 5! Florida’s thrashing of the ‘Noles and LSU’s OT win over Arkansas move them up to #3 and #5, respectively.
1 - Cincinnati (11-0) (40.21875) (1)
2 - Alabama (12-0) (39.875) (2)
3 - Florida (12-0) (38.875) (13)
4 - Texas (12-0) (38.5) (3)
5 - LSU (9-3) (37.125) (12)
6 - Miami (FL) (9-3) (37) (16)
7 - TCU (12-0) (36.75) (5)
8 - Virginia Tech (9-3) (36.59375) (9)
9 - Oregon (9-2) (36) (4)
9 - Pittsburgh (9-2) (36) (6)
11 - Boise St. (12-0) (35.5) (11)
12 - Ohio St. (10-2) (35.390625) (7)
13 - Southern California (8-3) (35.125) (18)
14 - Iowa (10-2) (35.0625) (8)
15 - Georgia Tech (10-2) (34.6875) (10)
16 - Oklahoma St. (9-3) (34.46875) (15)
17 - Clemson (8-4) (34) (14)
18 - California (8-3) (33.25) (17)
19 - North Carolina (8-4) (32.9375) (22)
20 - Stanford (8-4) (32.5625) (24)
21 - Houston (10-2) (32.515625) (21)
22 - Georgia (7-5) (32.34375) (NR)
23 - Missouri (8-4) (32.28125) (NR)
24 - West Virginia (8-3) (32.25) (NR)
25 - Navy (8-4) (32.03125) (19)
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college football poll - week 12
After most of the season at #1, the Tide drops to #2 after playing I-AA Chattanooga, paving the way for the Bearcats to move to #1. The undefeated Texas teams hold at #3 and #5, respectively, while the Ducks move to the #4 spot after a thrilling 2OT win over Arizona. And Florida? Still overrated.
1 - Cincinnati (10-0) (37.78125) (2)
2 - Alabama (11-0) (37.375) (1)
3 - Texas (11-0) (36.578125) (3)
4 - Oregon (9-2) (35.65625) (7)
5 - TCU (11-0) (35.4140625) (5)
6 - Pittsburgh (9-1) (35.3046875) (4)
7 - Ohio St. (10-2) (34.953125) (6)
8 - Iowa (10-2) (34.109375) (8)
9 - Virginia Tech (8-3) (33.90625) (15)
10 - Georgia Tech (10-1) (33.03125) (10)
11 - Boise St. (11-0) (33.015625) (13)
12 - LSU (8-3) (32.671875) (9)
13 - Florida (11-0) (32.625) (12)
14 - Clemson (8-3) (32.546875) (17)
15 - Oklahoma St. (9-2) (32.515625) (19)
16 - Miami (FL) (8-3) (32.5) (16)
17 - California (8-3) (32.4375) (20)
18 - Southern California (7-3) (32.1875) (11)
19 - Navy (8-3) (31.359375) (14)
20 - Notre Dame (6-5) (30.984375) (18)
21 - Houston (9-2) (30.9296875) (21)
22 - North Carolina (8-3) (30.578125) (NR)
23 - UCLA (6-5) (29.796875) (25)
24 - Stanford (7-4) (29.4375) (22)
25 - Auburn (7-4) (29.390625) (NR)
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college football poll - week 11
A win against the Sun Devils isn’t enough to keep Oregon from sliding down to #7. Texas claims the Ducks’ old #3 spot, while the Wannstache’s win over the Domers moves Pitt to #4. TCU’s besting of the Utes is good enough for #5. Oh, and the Gators are still overrated.
1 - Alabama (10-0) (36.875) (1)
2 - Cincinnati (10-0) (36.0625) (2)
3 - Texas (10-0) (35.015625) (4)
4 - Pittsburgh (9-1) (34.734375) (6)
5 - TCU (10-0) (34.5625) (8)
6 - Ohio St. (9-2) (33.78125) (10)
7 - Oregon (8-2) (33.625) (3)
8 - Iowa (9-2) (32.515625) (5)
9 - LSU (8-2) (32.296875) (6)
10 - Georgia Tech (10-1) (31.78125) (11)
11 - Southern California (7-3) (31.65625) (9)
12 - Florida (10-0) (31.53125) (14)
13 - Boise St. (10-0) (31.40625) (12)
14 - Navy (8-3) (31.09375) (13)
15 - Virginia Tech (7-3) (30.984375) (18)
16 - Miami (FL) (7-3) (30.78125) (16)
17 - Clemson (7-3) (30.71875) (19)
18 - Notre Dame (6-4) (30.4375) (15)
19 - Oklahoma St. (8-2) (30.234375) (20)
20 - California (7-3) (29.9375) (21)
21 - Houston (8-2) (29.3515625) (17)
22 - Stanford (7-3) (29.21875) (24)
23 - Boston College (7-3) (28.46875) (NR)
24 - Arizona (6-3) (28.078125) (22)
25 - UCLA (5-5) (27.921875) (25)
dropped out: Auburn -
college football poll - week 10
Finally – Washington drops out! ‘Bama has staying power at the top spot, while the Bearcats move in to #2.
1 - Alabama (9-0) (34.375) (1)
2 - Cincinnati (9-0) (33.09375) (4)
3 - Oregon (7-2) (32.28125) (2)
4 - Texas (9-0) (31.21875) (11)
5 - Iowa (9-1) (31.1875) (3)
6 - LSU (7-2) (30.796875) (5)
6 - Pittsburgh (8-1) (30.796875) (14)
8 - TCU (9-0) (30.734375) (6)
9 - Southern California (7-2) (30.28125) (8)
10 - Ohio St. (8-2) (29.8671875) (17)
11 - Georgia Tech (9-1) (29.8125) (13)
12 - Boise St. (9-0) (29.671875) (9)
13 - Navy (7-3) (29.546875) (NR)
14 - Florida (9-0) (29.09375) (7)
15 - Notre Dame (6-3) (29.015625) (10)
16 - Miami (FL) (7-2) (28.78125) (16)
17 - Houston (8-1) (28.765625) (15)
18 - Virginia Tech (6-3) (28.703125) (12)
19 - Clemson (6-3) (27.59375) (22)
20 - Oklahoma St. (7-2) (27.4375) (20)
21 - California (6-3) (26.65625) (19)
22 - Arizona (6-2) (26.609375) (24)
23 - Auburn (7-3) (26.265625) (18)
24 - Stanford (6-3) (26.171875) (NR)
25 - UCLA (4-5) (25.765625) (NR)
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college football poll - week 9
Argh, will the Washington effect never end? The 3-5 Huskies still haunt me at #25. Despite a bye week, ‘Bama’s past victims did well enough to keep the Tide in the top spot. Oregon’s domination of USC does enough to move the Ducks to #2, and I finally give the Bearcats some love after they unseat . . . Syracuse? Oh, and the Gators and Longhorns, those teams everyone else has in the top two spots? Overrated!
1 - Alabama (8-0) (30.4765625) (1)
2 - Oregon (7-1) (30.46875) (3)
3 - Iowa (9-0) (29.359375) (2)
4 - Cincinnati (8-0) (28.9375) (16)
5 - LSU (7-1) (28.796875) (4)
6 - TCU (8-0) (27.8828125) (6)
7 - Florida (8-0) (27.734375) (8)
8 - Southern California (6-2) (27.65625) (5)
9 - Boise St. (8-0) (27.421875) (10)
10 - Notre Dame (6-2) (27.296875) (11)
11 - Texas (8-0) (27.2421875) (12)
12 - Virginia Tech (5-3) (27.0546875) (9)
13 - Georgia Tech (8-1) (26.9765625) (13)
14 - Pittsburgh (7-1) (26.90625) (7)
15 - Houston (7-1) (26.8515625) (18)
16 - Miami (FL) (6-2) (25.921875) (NR)
17 - Ohio St. (7-2) (25.6640625) (14)
18 - Auburn (6-3) (25.15625) (20)
19 - California (6-2) (24.90625) (25)
20 - Oklahoma St. (6-2) (24.84375) (15)
21 - Boston College (6-3) (24.25) (NR)
22 - Clemson (5-3) (23.328125) (22)
23 - Penn St. (8-1) (23.0390625) (NR)
24 - Arizona (5-2) (22.2578125) (17)
25 - Washington (3-5) (22.015625) (19)
dropped out: West Virginia, Stanford, KansasThe directed graph is now large enough (4.2 MB) that I’m getting server time-out errors when I attempt to upload it to ImageShack. So, uh, no more directed graphs.
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geek code -- then and now
When I made the last post, I had completely forgotten that I had made the exact same post over nine years ago! Let’s run down and see how my geekiness has changed over the past decade (and witness me switch between referring to myself in the first and third persons with reckless abandon!):
Type of Geek: My 19-year-old self was a geek of math and music! My 28-year-old self is a geek of only math. (However, had I compiled the more recent code by hand, as my 19-year-old self had done, rather than via the Geek Code Generator, which doesn’t allow multiple geekhoods, this would have remained unchanged.)
Dress: unchanged
Shape: unchanged
Age: Not surprisingly, I did age 9 years during the last 9 years!
Computers: unchanged
Unix: unchanged
Perl: My 19-year-old self had no idea what Perl was, but still had put P+ down ‘cause he thought it was cool. Although I went years thinking it was inferior to PHP (and it very well might be for internet applications), I am now officially in love with it. I use Perl every chance I can get.
Linux: My 19-year-old self dual-booted Red Hat with Windows 98, but spent most of his time in Doze so he could play Quake 3 with his buddies. My 28-year-old self dual-boots Ubuntu and Windows XP, but only logs into Windows every 6 months or so after a few beers to reactivate his Dark Age of Camelot accounts. His laptop runs only Linux.
Emacs: Massive swing here. My 19-year-old self grew accustomed to using vi thanks to Red Hat not agreeing with my ATI vid card and spending hours editing xorg.conf. My 28-year-old self basically lives in Emacs.
World Wide Web: Heh, it’s been awhile since I’ve seen the “World Wide” in front of the “Web”. Silly 1996. Most of Christendom would be W+ these days. Basically unchanged (W to W**+).
USENET News: My 19-year-old self had relatively recent memories of spending hours perusing rec.arts.comics.dc.universe. My 28-year-old self has only very vague memories of spending hours perusing rec.arts.comics.dc.universe.
USENET Oracle: My 19-year-old self apparently knew what this was, or at least had the good sense to Google it. Er, Altavista it. Or Webcrawler it. Whatever the heck he used back then. My 28-year-old self has completely no idea what this is and couldn’t be bothered to Google it.
Kibo: unchanged
Windows: unchanged
OS/2: My 19-year-old self refused to participate in this category. My 28-year-old self, again forced by the software he used to generate the code, was forced to pick the thing least unlike what his answer actually was.
Macintosh: My 19-year-old self lived in a dorm with a myriad annoying theater majors with multicolored iMacs. My 28-year-old self thinks Macs are kinda neat.To be continued…
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geek code
This is very 15-years-ago, but I was procrastinating:
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Version: 3.12
GM d- s: a- C** UL P+ L+ E W+ N o– K- w O– M- V- PS+ PE- Y PGP- t+ 5 X R+ tv+ b+ DI D G e**+ h+ r— y–
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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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