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cornhuskers4ever said:
I like the look of the rankings. Nebraska isn't jumping too soon, and as/if we keep winning we will keep moving up the polls, I'd rather start in the middle to end of the top 25 and work our way up that start too high, when you are ranked high at the beginning, there is only 1 way to move, down.
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I do favor the "climb" up the polls. I remember our first championship...everything, right down to the last bowl games had to fall just right for us to move up to the #1 spot. I guess that kind of captured my imagination. Although, having said that...going pole to pole as the Number 1 would be acceptable too!!!!

 
All the polls have some bias. Last year in the final coaches poll for the bowl games Saban and Stanford's coach both voted Oklahoma State 4th to help their chances of locking up the 2nd spot. Regardless of whether they thought 4th was a fair spot, the system should not work this way.

 
Agree with mrandyk.

Coaches should not have a poll. Holy Bias Batman!

They hardly have time to review their opponents game film, much less every other team that played.

We all know this is a joke. Some low level intern is filling out those ballots.

 
If I were a poll voter, I'd honestly stick Frank's Ohio squad in there at 23-25'ish. Penn has obviously been hit hard, but it was still a tough venue to play in against a team that desperately wanted to come out and do something positive. With Boise, Southern Miss and Houston all losing, and TCU in the Big 12, I also think that one token non-AQ school should still be in there...certainly they deserve to be there more than Florida who damn near lost to a MAC team at home.

 
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HuskerThor said:
AP Top 25 RK TEAM RECORD PTS 1 Alabama (45) 1-0 1481 2 USC (11) 1-0 1435 3 LSU (4) 1-0 1382 4 Oregon 1-0 1295 5 Oklahoma 1-0 1170 6 Florida State 1-0 1135 7 Georgia 1-0 1083 8 Arkansas 1-0 992 9 South Carolina 1-0 980 9 West Virginia 1-0 980 11 Michigan State 1-0 915 12 Clemson 1-0 788 13 Wisconsin 1-0 664 14 Ohio State 1-0 634 15 Virginia Tech 1-0 604 16 Nebraska 1-0 603 17 Texas 1-0 584 18 Oklahoma State 1-0 558 19 Michigan 0-1 446 20 TCU 0-0 355 21 Kansas State 1-0 339 22 Notre Dame 1-0 198 23 Louisville 1-0 190 24 Florida 1-0 145 25 Stanford 1-0 131 <p

  • Dropped from rankings: Boise State 24

  • Others receiving votes: Boise State 79, Tennessee 73, Brigham Young 63, North Carolina 48, Baylor 38, Utah 34, Washington 15, Georgia Tech 14, Ohio 10, TEXSTATE 10, Missouri 7, Texas A&M 5, South Florida 5, UCF 4, Mississippi State 3, Auburn 3, Cincinnati 2


ESPN.com's Power Rankings RK TEAM RECORD PTS 1 Alabama 1-0 495 2 USC 1-0 476 3 LSU 1-0 459 4 Oregon 1-0 442 5 Florida State 1-0 398 6 Oklahoma 1-0 375 7 Georgia 1-0 371 8 West Virginia 1-0 361 9 Michigan State 1-0 321 10 Arkansas 1-0 309 11 South Carolina 1-0 278 12 Ohio State 1-0 248 13 Clemson 1-0 238 14 Nebraska 1-0 215 15 Texas 1-0 203 16 Oklahoma State 1-0 197 17 Virginia Tech 1-0 186 18 Wisconsin 1-0 171 19 Michigan 0-1 138 20 Kansas State 1-0 129 21 TCU 0-0 124 22 Notre Dame 1-0 70 23 Tennessee 1-0 67 24 Stanford 1-0 55 25 Florida 1-0 40

  • Others receiving votes: Louisville, Boise State, Brigham Young, North Carolina, Utah, Washington, Baylor, Ohio, South Florida, UCLA
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Wow look at Texas State!
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Yeah, behind us where they belong. I saw the AP poll listed along with the ESPNU poll but not the coaches poll. We were listed at #14 for that poll too:

http://msn.foxsports.com/collegefootball/poll?poll=Coaches

 
krill said:
If I were a poll voter, I'd honestly stick Frank's Ohio squad in there at 23-25'ish. Penn has obviously been hit hard, but it was still a tough venue to play in against a team that desperately wanted to come out and do something positive. With Boise, Southern Miss and Houston all losing, and TCU in the Big 12, I also think that one token non-AQ school should still be in there...certainly they deserve to be there more than Florida who damn near lost to a MAC team at home.
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He's getting a little love. In the Forde yard dash, they gave him some love. They said if they can get passed Marshall it's quite likely Ohio will go undefeated this year. Anyone remember a couple of years ago when Ohio gave Ohio State all they wanted early in the season?

 
I think we are close to where we belong (13-15 range is my guess). The only rankings I have problem with is South Carolina, Wisconsin & Oklahoma. All three teams looked pretty sad against much weaker teams. I give SC a more slack due to Vandy always being a tough team to play. I just don't understand how the polls don't do some major shifting after the 1st week when they really know where teams are at.

 
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