The first official BCS Standings will have this resemblance of last year's final polls: a team from the SEC will be on top.
Whereas Auburn finished as the BCS national champion last season, their archrival Alabama will debut as No. 1 when the first BCS standings of 2011 is unveiled Sunday night. LSU will edge Oklahoma for the No. 2 spot, as the two SEC West foes march inexorably toward their gargantuan showdown on Nov. 5 in Tuscaloosa.
With Michigan, Illinois and Georgia Tech all losing, the ranks of the unbeatens have now shrunk to 10. And since Kansas State and Houston are not realistic title contenders, this year's BCS national champion will come from the remaining eight undefeated teams.
Conveniently, they will also appear as the top eight ranked teams in the initial BCS standings. The Guru's projections:
1. Alabama, 2. LSU, 3. Oklahoma, 4. Oklahoma State, 5. Boise State, 6. Wisconsin, 7. Clemson, 8. Stanford, 9. Arkansas, 10. South Carolina, 11. Oregon, 12. Kansas State, 13. Nebraska, 14. Michigan, 15. Virginia Tech.
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How is Boise State ahead of Stanford? And Clemson too... Did no one (computers too) watch the orange bowl? The acc champion sucks compared to Stanford, Stanford owns the fbs longest winning streak, and if it's SOS then tell me - who has Boise played??? Mediocre Georgia? I would definitely say, the BS is still stained alll over the BCS!
patmac: First, the Guru is predicting what the BCS rankings will be, not what they ought to be. He's generally pretty accurate. Clemson will be that far down the list, largely because of their pre-season ranking. I don't think anyone here is going to argue that this is fair to Clemson, but it is the way the system works, like it or not.
On the topic of Stanford's SOS schedule vs BSU: who exactly has Stanford beaten so far this year? SJSU, Duke, Arizona, UCLA, Colorado and Washington State. Which of those teams could go win at Georgia (which is now 5-2 and 4-1 in the SEC). According to Sagarin, BSU has played the 29th toughest schedule; Stanford the 90th toughest. (Clemson 41st, btw.) This will balance out for Stanford as the season goes on; their conference schedule has been front loaded with the weaker teams in the PAC-12 with Washington, USC, Oregon and ND remaining, plus the championship game should they win the division.
Plus the computers like Boise much more than stanford
Sanford sucks. Sanford beats teams that suck. People who went to Sanford suck. Sanford is a form of sucking.
Stanford troll.... Not sanford. Btw wisky at 6? Too bad for the weak schedule, wisky could be at the top.
Ya I understand these are predictions...it's just frustrating, you see a team like Clemson get all this love and a team like Stanford get no love. The fact is the human part of the polls watch Clemson play crappy teams like maryland and almost lose, but because ESPN won't show many PAC games they don't watch Stanford play the same type of crappy teams and look like an NFL team.it's just the cold hard truth.
And I really do think people should remember the orange bowl last year... People thought Va Tech was great and Stanford was gonna lose, most ESPN analysts picked Va Tech to win the game cuz they hadn't REALLY seen Stanford cuz they're so east coast heavy. Va Tech was utterly obliterated. And guess what, people should remember that when they compare teams this year, especially a team like Clemson from the ACC.
Alabama falls 0.003 points behind LSU
VaTech wasn't very good last yr (note the losing record out-of-conference), but they swept the ACC. ACC stunk. That's why I picked Stan over VaT in their bowl. However, Clemson's played a better schedule this yr than Stan (victories over Auburn, FSU, and VaT).
By the end of the yr, we'll have more data which will give a more accurate representation of the relative merits of those teams.
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