The 2011 week 02 unbiased college football rankings following week 01 . Follow how the UNBSD rankings have changed after the final 2010 rankings from ESPN . If you get the method, then you get the madness. This eliminates the biases by only using results on the field (that’s why they play the games).
1 Auburn 1-0
2 Stanford 1-0
3 Ohio St 1-0
4 Oklahoma 1-0
5 Boise St 1-0
6 LSU 1-0
7 Wisconsin 1-0
8 Oklahoma St 1-0
9 Alabama 1-0
10 Arkansas 1-0
11 Nevada 0-0
12 Michigan St 1-0
13 Virginia Tech 1-0
14 Florida St 1-0
15 Mississippi St 1-0
16 Missouri 1-0
17 Nebraska 1-0
18 Texas A&M 1-0
19 UCF 1-0
20 South Carolina 1-0
21 Utah 1-0
22 Maryland 1-0
23 North Carolina St 1-0
24 Northern Illinois 1-0
25 West Virginia 1-0
Reviewing what happened last year going into the 2010 bowl games in week 13, TCU should have been playing for the national championship. The 2011 preseason poll that has come out is as ugly as ever in that it exluded five teams (Nevada, UCF, Utah, Maryland and North Carolina St) when they hadn’t even played a game. Each team except Nevada won in week 01 of 2011 and thus in the UNBSD rankings, each has moved up.
Auburn had a close call against Utah State–I mean onside kick close–but they took TCU’s spot legitimately this time by defeating the Aggies in week 01 of 2011 and having an undefeated season in 2010. Sadly for the other returning high-flyers of 2010, TCU and Oregon were eliminated from the UNBSD Top 25 due to their loss in week 01. Even though TCU had a close game in the end and was playing a biased-poll ranked opponent, it is too early to let them bypass teams that have not lost. Oregon fared worse after traveling some 2000 miles away from Eugene, OR by getting tripped up at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, TX, and so it’s high profile must be built up again.
Georgia has been shot out of the fake preseason poll when they were crushed by Boise State in the second half. The Bulldogs weren’t even ranked in the final poll of last year and so there is no way they should have been stuffed up in the rankings above even other teams that got votes at the end of 2010 (Air Force, Hawaii, Notre Dame, and Washington). A few teams that did receive votes at the end of last year have lost in week one (Tulsa, Notre Dame) so the UNBSD rankings will give the advantage to those that did win and see if they can keep rolling.
Each college football year is unique but each year, the polls figure out new ways to make the rankings more like a pageant instead of actual football competition. Playoffs, did you say playoffs? Playoffs?