30.10.06
Like it says above: The teams are ranked by a sort of bounty system. Margin of victory is irrelevant. A win is a win, after all.
Without further ado (Last week's rank in parinthesis):
- Ohio State (2)
- Michigan (1)
- Florida (4)
- Cal (5)
- USC (3)
- Auburn (6)
- Tennessee (10)
- Rutgers (8)
- Notre Dame (13)
- Texas (12)
- Boston College (7)
- Texas A&M (11)
- Boise State (9)
- Louisville (14)
- Georgia Tech (21)
- West Virginia (15)
- Arkansas (18)
- Clemson (16)
- Wisconsin (19)
- Missouri (17)
- Tulsa (20)
- Washington State (24)
- Oklahoma (NR)
- Oregon State (NR)
- Louisiana State (22)
Virginia Tech is 26th, knocking on the door after its IMPRESSIVE win on Thursday against Clemson. Dropping out of the top 25 are Nebraska after being shocked by Oklahoma State & Wake Forest after beating a...how do I put this...after beating an undistinguished North Carolina team.
More later,
R.
22.10.06
The Love Life: To say that there isn't one is, well, a lie. But there are (were?) 2 women: M, a co-worker, who had pursued me until, one day, I just got sick of it and called her. We called each other a few times, but it never worked out that we got together. Eh. She does have a nice set of blue eyes, but (1) she smokes, (2) she has a kid, (3) there are a bunch of piercings, (4) I would have to deal with that drama at work, and (5) she lives something like 100 miles from me. So, eh. No big thing that it didn't work out. And there's T, someone who also works in the service industry. She's smart, she's funny, she's stacked (not to be indelicate, but she has huge tatas...at least it appears that way through the sweaters she wears), but there's something that seems a wee bit dissonant about us. I still question it. I don't know if it's me, trying to hold myself from happiness & a serious relationship, or whether the questions are valid. Add to this that I'm not so sure she really likes me. Just call me J. Alfred. *sigh*. Enough of this.
Question: Do you realize that through 3 quarters, the Tigers' offense (through 5 2/3 innings) has produced more than Cincinnati's & South Florida's combined?
College Football: Jesus did Clemson look good in hammering Georgia Tech yesterday night. Those kids they had a running back are going to be a serious problem on Thursday, methinks. Even after beating Southern Miss, Tech still really hasn't beaten anyone really good. Hopefully (and this is a BIG hope, Tech can use this Thursday night to spark a resurgence through the rest of the season. If Tech wins out and Miami otherwise wins out, Tech does no worse than a tie with Miami for the conference. They may also be tied with Georgia Tech (6-2 conference, 4-1 division, 1-1 against each other), which would be a complication. But if I read this right, Tech...Virginia Tech...would win the tiebreaker on #4...overall non-divisional record. That also assumes a non-conference win against Kent State...who said the weak-ass schedule's a liability? Just a side-note on the tiebreakers. To break a tie between 2 teams, don't you only need the head-to-head competition? It's not as though teams tie anymore, what with overtime.
I have also come up with a computer ranking (aren't there plenty out there? - Ed.) for the Division I-A college football world. It's a sort of bounty system, rewarding points for wins & strength of schedule. It doesn't differentiate for margin of victory; Notre Dame's 3 point win come-from-behind against UCLA is treated identically to Oregon's & Washington's 10 point wins against the Bruins. At this point (and I know that I have to address this; I'm just not quite sure how differently to treat it) it completely ignores competition against lower divisions. But it seems to be reasonably accurate, by which I mean in the ballpark.
Without further ado:
- Michigan
- Ohio State
- USC
- Florida
- Cal
- Auburn
- Boston College
- Rutgers
- Boise State
- Tennessee
- Texas A&M
- Texas
- Notre Dame
- Louisville
- West Virginia
- Clemson
- Missouri
- Arkansas
- Wisconsin
- Tulsa
- Georgia Tech
- LSU
- Nebraska
- Washington State
- Wake Forest
With the major exception of Rutgers (they haven't really beaten anyone important, have they?), and a few minor tweaks (I might swap Auburn & Florida, and/or Cal & Tennessee, and I might rank Clemson a few spots higher, and Texas A&M a few spots lower) this seems a perfectly good ballot to me.
Anyway, I'll leave you with that. Virginia Tech, incidentally, comes in 38th, just below Maryland. Ponder that. After the weak (super-weak!) schedule (and how prepared they were for GT & BC as a result), I'm almost surprised they were ranked so high.
UPDATE: It appears that the College Football weekend will end on the same note on which it started: mediocre team beats mediocre team 23-0. Or something like that.
UPDATE: So much for the 23-0 symmetry of UVa-Carolina & USF-Cincy. But one has to laugh when the only points scored in the first 40 minutes of a game are on a safety.
