College football rankings for Week 9 Coaches poll Ranking Team Record Points (No. 1 votes) 1 Georgia 7-0 1,586 (58) 2 Michigan 8-0 1,522 (4) 3 Ohio State 7-0 1,459 (2) 4 Florida State 7-0 1,426 5 Washington 7-0 1,333 6 Oklahoma 7-0 1,283 7 Texas 6-1 1,150 8 Alabama 7-1 1,141 9 Oregon 6-1 1,089 10 Penn State 6-1 1,056 11 Ole Miss 6-1 931 12 Oregon State 6-1 892 13 Utah 6-1 866 14 Notre Dame 6-2 688 15 LSU 6-2 677 16 Missouri 7-1 604 17 UNC 6-1 574 18 Louisville 6-1 451 19 Air Force 7-0 374 20 Tennessee 5-2 356 21 Duke 5-2 350 22 USC 6-2 269 23 Tulane 6-1 202 24 UCLA 5-2 195 25 James Madison 7-0 101 Others receiving votes: Florida 52; Miami (FL) 27; Kansas State 25; Iowa 24; Fresno State 23; Oklahoma State 13; Kentucky 10; Wyoming 9; SMU 8; Liberty 8; Arizona 7; UNLV 6; Maryland 4; Kansas 4; Wisconsin 2; Toledo 2; Clemson 1. AP poll Ranking Team Record Points (No. 1 votes) 1 Georgia 7-0 1,536 (38) 2 Michigan 8-0 1,504 (19) 3 Ohio State 7-0 1,454 (3) 4 Florida State 7-0 1,408 (3) 5 Washington 7-0 1,325 6 Oklahoma 7-0 1,267 7 Texas 6-1 1,150 8 Oregon 6-1 1,133 9 Alabama 7-1 1,071 10 Penn State 6-1 999 11 Oregon State 6-1 922 12 Ole Miss 6-1 889 13 Utah 6-1 868 14 Notre Dame 6-2 718 15 LSU 6-2 687 16 Missouri 7-1 594 17 UNC 6-1 506 18 Louisville 6-1 420 19 Air Force 7-0 395 20 Duke 5-2 371 21 Tennessee 5-2 306 22 Tulane 6-1 248 23 UCLA 5-2 243 24 USC 6-2 193 25 James Madison 7-0 167 Others receiving votes: Florida 34; Liberty 17; Kansas St. 16; Miami (FL) 12; Fresno St. 8; Oklahoma St. 5; Toledo 3; Kentucky 2; Rutgers 2; UNLV 1; Wisconsin 1.
We are about to find out how good Georgia is without Brock Bowers. I, like many others on this message board, denigrate Big Ten teams as not having elite rosters and playing against weaker competition. However, College Football, Inc. has improved Big Ten recruiting. Last year we found out in the playoffs that Michigan did not have an elite defense. This year, to me, Michigan looks like a number 1 team, but we will likely have to wait for the playoffs to find out, but playing Penn State and Ohio State will giver us a better indication than they would have in years past.
BRING BACK THE COMPUTER RANKINGS... Strength of Schedule has been taken OUT OF THE EQUATION by humans. James Madison would get crushed by many team not in the top 25 and they have no business being ranked above the Gators in any ranking system.
Not at all, all we have to do is win and and all is well. But you have to admit that teams like James Madison have not played the schedule we have... So they reward wins and losses to whomever they play? We played Utah and lost, and if we have just played a James Madison instead we'd have only one loss... However, I would still rather we play interesting/difficult games than play cupcakes for mid-season rankings. The system needs to better reflect strength of schedule... but it will not change our goal to win every game in front of us. If we just take care of business... none of that crap matters.
Sagarin's computer algorithm only reflects his own bias. Bad input... bad output. His strength of schedule is wins and losses. Lol. That might be off, becasue it's been a while since I have seen his full list of stats that he calculates from.
