Wednesday, November 12, 2008

BD Top 25© – Week 11 (12 November 2008)

Previous Week

Current Week

Team

Score

1

1

Texas Tech (4)

21.042

2

2

Alabama (4)

20.910

6

3

Texas

19.191


4

4

Florida

19.091


5

5

Oklahoma

18.178


7

6

USC

16.912

3

7

Penn State

15.571

9

8

Utah

15.470

10

9

Boise State (1)

15.010

11

10

Ohio State

14.054

8

11

Oklahoma State

12.120

13

12

Missouri

11.994

14

13

Georgia

10.742

18

14

Ball State

9.161

17

15

Michigan State

9.142

19

16

North Carolina

8.557

16

17

BYU

8.028

15

18

LSU

6.913

12

19

TCU

6.605

UNR

20

Florida State

5.056

UNR

21

Pittsburgh

4.175

UNR

22

Cincinnati

2.783

25

23

Air Force

1.983

UNR

24

Tulsa

1.606

22

25

California

1.303

 Others receiving votes: South Carolina (1.133), Oregon State (0.762), Wake Forest (0.567), Northwestern (0.466), Virginia Tech (0.334), West Virginia (0.283), Boston College (0.265), Wisconsin (0.094)

Dropped from the poll: West Virginia (#20), Georgia Tech (#21), Maryland (#23), Northwestern (#24)

4 comments:

Dan Starr said...

Oklahoma should be #3 over Florida by virtue of the strength of their loss. OU lost to #5 Texas on a neutral field while Florida lost at home to a .500 Ole Miss team.

Bill said...

I wonder who voted Boise #1??? Sounds like the work of a WAC apologist.

The Doob said...

Upon further review, it appears that there was a balloting error where Texas Tech received two votes from one voter, whereas we have been informed the intent was one for Texas Tech and one for Texas. Now that Texas no longer has a 0 for one of the votes, the Longhorns move up into third place.

To answer a prior comment about strength of a loss, the BD Top 25 formula factors in quality wins and it is up to the discretion of the voters to weight out where a loss comes from. Florida has quality wins on a neutral site against Georgia and on the road against LSU. Oklahoma has home wins against TCU and Kansas.

Mister Pro said...

Seriously, who gave Boise their top spot?

They had to have changed their vote from Alabama last week to Boise State this week. I was the lone first place vote for Penn State last week, and this week I gave it to Alabama. But there is still the same number of first-place votes for the Tide this week.

 
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