BCS Guru Ballot - Week 11
| Rank | Team | Delta |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oregon Ducks |  1 |
| 2 | Kansas St. Wildcats | 1 |
| 3 | Notre Dame Fighting Irish | 1 |
| 4 | Ohio St. Buckeyes | 1 |
| 5 | Georgia Bulldogs | 1 |
| 6 | Florida Gators | 1 |
| 7 | Alabama Crimson Tide |  -6 |
| 8 | Florida St. Seminoles | 1 |
| 9 | Clemson Tigers | 1 |
| 10 | LSU Tigers | 1 |
| 11 | Texas A&M Aggies | 2 |
| 12 | Oklahoma Sooners | -- |
| 13 | Stanford Cardinal | 2 |
| 14 | South Carolina Gamecocks | -- |
| 15 | Oregon St. Beavers | -7 |
| 16 | UCLA Bruins | 1 |
| 17 | Nebraska Cornhuskers | 1 |
| 18 | Louisiana Tech Bulldogs | 1 |
| 19 | Louisville Cardinals | -3 |
| 20 | Texas Longhorns | 1 |
| 21 | USC Trojans | 4 |
| 22 | Michigan Wolverines | 2 |
| 23 | Oklahoma St. Cowboys | New |
| 24 | San Diego St. Aztecs | New |
| 25 | Kent St. Golden Flashes | New |
| Dropouts: Toledo Rockets, Northwestern Wildcats, Mississippi St. Bulldogs | ||
SB Nation BlogPoll College Football Top 25 Rankings
* Oregon takes over as No. 1 as it clearly has the most lethal offense in the country. While the defense does give up points and yards, it does more than enough to keep the opposition from catching the Ducks offense. We probably won't find out if that offensive juggernaut can be contained until the BCS national championship game.
* How does the SEC get in front of the polls? They frontload the conference schedule so they can build up the leading teams. But then you get a weekend like the next one, where there are three conference games matching six teams, while seven of the other eight teams are playing FCS opponents at home. Missouri, the new addition to the conference, evidently didn't get the memo and will host Syracuse.
* Let's just say my complete lack of faith in Louisville while it was undefeated proved entirely justified.
* Conference-by-conference tally: SEC (6), Pac-12 (5), Big 12 (4), Big Ten (3), ACC (2), Big East (1), MAC (1), MWC (1), WAC (1), Independent (1).
1 comment:
How does the SEC get in front of the polls? They frontload the conference schedule so they can build up the leading teams.
I would add that they all play weak non-conference schedules so they all start 3-0, use the preseason assumption that the SEC is strong to get a lot of teams highly ranked early, so that once the conference schedule hits even losses become "quality".
Then, they are lucky enough that all the BCS championship games are played in either Pac-12 or SEC cities, and the Pac-12 is too dumb/proud to copy the strategy.
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