Coaches Poll Out

USA Today

1. Oregon (50)

2. Auburn (4)

3. TCU (2)

4. Boise St. (3)

5. Wisconsin

6. LSU

7. Ohio St.

8. Nebraska

9. Stanford

10. Michigan St.

11. Oklahoma St.

12. Alabama

13. Iowa

14. Arkansas

15. Utah

16. Oklahoma

17. Virginia Tech

18. Mississippi St.

19. Arizona

20. Missouri

21. Nevada

22. South Carolina

23. UCF

24. Florida

25. Texas A&M

EDIT - merged my thread with huskerscott's.

 
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Look at Michigan State moving up 5 spots after beating one of the worst teams in the nation.

They really commit themselves to this whole 'every 2 loss AQ team must be ranked behind every 1 loss AQ team.'

 
Sagarin dropped us one spot, from fifth to sixth. Boise jumped us from sixth to fifth. Our SOS continues to climb, though - we now have the fifth-best SOS in Sagarin's top ten, and we've beaten two of his top ten teams. If we beat A&M and OSU again, we'll be in Sagarin's top three with a SOS in the top 15.

 
Now we need Okie st to win out and meet us in the Big12 championship. We need them to be ranked as high as possible when we beat em to give us any kind of chance to jump into the bcs championship mix.

 
The AP came out. We were jumped by Stanford and LSU:

Rank Team

1. Oregon (49)

2. Auburn (2)

3. TCU (2)

4. Boise St. (7)

5. LSU 8-1 1

6. Wisconsin

7. Stanford

8. Ohio St.

9. Nebraska

10. Michigan St.

11. Alabama

12. Oklahoma St.

13. Iowa

14. Arkansas

15. Utah

16. Virginia Tech

17. Mississippi St.

18. Arizona

19. Oklahoma

20. Missouri

21. Nevada

22. South Carolina

23. Texas A&M

24. Florida

25. UCF

 
The fact that Ohio State is ranked in front of us is a travesty. I know I sound like a broken record here, but their schedule is a joke. THEY HAVE NOT BEATEN ANYONE OF NOTE!!! If they run the table the next three games, maybe I'll give them some respect. But their entire schedule, top to bottom, is as easy as they come.

http://espn.go.com/college-football/team/_/id/194/ohio-state-buckeyes

Stanford also hasn't done anything other than beating #15 Arizona at home. Otherwise, their best claim to fame is not getting dominated by Oregon for the first half of that game.

Really, I think this poll goes to show that, among the one-loss teams, who you beat is not as important as to whom you lose.

 
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Some of Stanford's ranking has to do with what has to be a statistical anomaly right now. Sagarin's conference SOS rankings have the Pac-10 at #1 by a wide margin, over #2 Big 12. Nine teams in the PAC-10 have played schedules ranked in Sagarin's top 16:

1 Washington

2 Oregon State

3 Washington State

4 UCLA

5 Arizona State

7 California

9 USC

12 Arizona

16 Stanford

36 Oregon

As these teams continue to play their bottom-feeder conference opponents, these SOS rankings have to drop.

I haven't checked the OOC games for these teams, but I don't remember anyone playing terribly tough competition. Was the PAC-10 OOC schedule really that tough?

 
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