New USA Today Rankings

[Siouxperman]

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

[Ganz4Heisman]

Hey we got 12 votes now thats improvement

[Dhuskers]

nebraska gets 12 votes...not bad

 

but if you count them out then thats still putting as at only 38. Isn't that where we were before?

[papersun87]

Just one vote behind Cincinatti . . .

[Chef K]

Gonna take a couple of weeks to make believers of 'em. A win over VT I think would put us in the Top-25.

[dustinl15]

nebraska gets 12 votes...not bad

 

but if you count them out then thats still putting as at only 38. Isn't that where we were before?

No we were at 36 before

[skersfan]

We play no one until the Va Tech game, they are not in the top 25, how would be move into the top 25.

 

VaTech may lose another game before we play them.

 

We have to play Missouri close or win to get ranked. If we are 4-0 going into the Missouri game, and keep it respectable, we might see a 24-25 ranking. If we win, then up the charts to 15-18 is my guess.

[BigRedMan]

I thought we were 46th?

[kstatehater]

Not that it really matters but yes we were "36th" before, UCLA jumped from having one vote into being one vote shy of the top 25 by beating a SEC team that has a new offensive coordinator, and frankly Tennessee looked everybit as bad as UCLA did look good. Cincinatti also passed us up, Rankings are garbage untill atleast week 4.

[Igetbored216]

Were people expecting NU's ranking to change much? I know I wasn't. The first week is hardly ever much competition (unless you're a team like Mizzou), so unless you lose to one of these filler teams (VT, Michigan), the rankings shouldn't change much.

[DJR313]

I think NU was 41 before this, I am not sure. I think Nebraska could win the first 4 and still not be ranked. VT wasn't enough of a win to vault Eastern Carolina into the top 25, and they were coming off a 9 win season with a bowl victory.

[melscott62]

nothing short of a 5-0 start will get us back up there. I dont thinkit is something we should be worrying about as 5-0 is not real likely

[hskerholic]

In the USA TODAY they say each week a few players who they think have put themselves in the heisman watch and they choose Joe Ganz with his perfomace on saturday. 345 yards passing and 4 td's. I thought that was cool.

[skersfan]

melscott, reality is not a popular subject on Nebraska boards. Be careful, very careful.

[DCHusker]

Assuming that VT doesn't lose again before facing us, I think that if we go 4-0 we crack 25, barely. Even though BCS conference teams schedule cupcakes early in the year, going 4-0 is a lot rarer than you would think. I went back and l looked at last year:

 

There were only three teams to go 4-0 and not be top-25: UConn, Purdue, and Mich St.

 

Purdue was 26th, Mich St. was 28th, and UConn was 36th.

 

VT this year will be a more impressive opponent than anyone those teams faced in their first four games.

 

The strongest wins for UConn and Mich St. were both against Pitt. Purdue's best win was over Minnesota. Pitt and Minnesota were sub-.500 over the season and had pretty low expectations at that point in the season.

 

Even with the loss in week one this season, I think most voters would consider VT a better than average team in a BCS conference, certainly above where Pitt and Minnesota were after week four last year.

 

All that said, let's just worry about San Jose State for now.