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Team I didn’t know what to do with: Penn State
Team I can’t believe I have in the top 10: South Carolina
Team I think is better than their ranking: USC
Team that looked like its ranking this weekend: (tie) Oklahoma State and Stanford
Team I think is worse than their ranking: Virginia Tech
Teams I want to see matched up in a playoff: Clemson and Oregon
Team that got exposed: Kansas State
Team I can’t believe is about to fall out of the top 25: Wisconsin
Teams I want to see matched up in a playoff (Part II): Stanford and Nebraska
Top 5 stays the same (duh). I had to bump OU because going on the road and routing a top 10 team (at the time) like that is impressive. Trust me, I tried to get around that, but I couldn’t. What am I supposed to do with the fact that Penn State (a team that can’t score) has a 2 game lead on Wisconsin (a team that should absolutely be in the national title hunt)?
Full poll after the jump
Pistols Firing Ballot – Week 10
| Rank | Team | Delta |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | LSU Tigers | – |
| 2 | Alabama Crimson Tide | – |
| 3 | Oklahoma St. Cowboys | – |
| 4 | Boise St. Broncos | – |
| 5 | Stanford Cardinal | – |
| 6 | Oklahoma Sooners |  7 |
| 7 | Oregon Ducks | – |
| 8 | Arkansas Razorbacks | 2 |
| 9 | South Carolina Gamecocks | 2 |
| 10 | Nebraska Cornhuskers | 7 |
| 11 | Houston Cougars | 4 |
| 12 | Clemson Tigers |  -6 |
| 13 | Penn St. Nittany Lions | 11 |
| 14 | Virginia Tech Hokies | 2 |
| 15 | Arizona St. Sun Devils | 3 |
| 16 | Michigan St. Spartans | -7 |
| 17 | Michigan Wolverines | 3 |
| 18 | Georgia Bulldogs | 5 |
| 19 | Wisconsin Badgers | -7 |
| 20 | USC Trojans | -1 |
| 21 | Auburn Tigers | – |
| 22 | Kansas St. Wildcats | -14 |
| 23 | Cincinnati Bearcats | -1 |
| 24 | Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets | – |
| 25 | West Virginia Mountaineers | – |
| Dropouts: Texas A&M Aggies, Iowa Hawkeyes | ||
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How can you have Oregon behind Oklahoma?
-Oregon lost on a “neutral” field to the #1/2 team in the country
-OU lost at home to an unranked team
You didn’t know….Kyle’s real name is Homer Gooner…
Got no problem with it…Oregon didn’t “lose,” they got DEMOLISHED.
I am confident that, IF OU SHOWED UP TO PLAY, they would take care of Oregon.
Texas Tech was a COMPLETE fluke…
Fair point…I’ll consider changing for my final poll to be turned in on Wednesday…
How about this for a thought? I do not know the exact science of how the numbers work, but I do know that Stanford pulling off that 3OT win at USC kept them #3 in the USA Today Poll, which means OSU was at #4, stealing points from the Cowboys. Think about this. If Stanford would have lost, no doubt OSU would have gotten the #3 ranking, which would have given them more points in the overall BCS standings, where they are already creeping up on Alabama. How awesome would it have been to jump Alabama this week and rain all over that SEC parade of #1 vs. #2?! I’m not sure if it would have been enough, but that would have been huge for the program. Not to mention hilarious.
Wow, great point…I didn’t even think of that.
Random:
In the BCS poll, Oregon’s loss to LSU, Arkansas loss to Bama and South Carolina’s 3 point loss to Auburn are both considered worse than OU getting worked at home by Tech.
I don’t argue that OU, when they are on, are better than those teams. Still, interesting.
Also interesting that you used the Euro-possessive there of “OU are” – something I promote but don’t regularly participate in for reader confusion reasons.
I don’t need your judgement in my life.
That may well be, but I hope you realize that three things can’t be “both”?
That had to be the best discussion ever lol