The 2011 week 06 unbiased college football rankings following week 05. Follow how the UNBSD rankings have changed after the final 2010 rankings from ESPN or on rivals.com . 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 Stanford 4-0 beat UCLA, next Colorado @ home
2 Oklahoma 4-0 beat Ball State, next Texas @ Texas State Fair (I mean the Cotton Bowl).
3 Wisconsin 5-0 beat Nebraska, next Indiana @ home
4 Boise State 4-0 beat Nevada, next @ Fresno St
5 LSU 5-0 beat beat Kentucky, next Florida @ home
6 Alabama 5-0 beat Florida, next Vanderbilt @ home
7 Oklahoma State 4-0 DNP, next Kansas @ home
8 Texas Tech 4-0 beat Kansas, next TX A&M @ home
9 Illinois 5-0 beat Northwestern, next @ Indiana
10 Kansas State 4-0 beat Baylor, next Missouri @ home
11 Georgia Tech 5-0 beat NC State, next Maryland @ home
12 Michigan 5-0 beat Minnesota, next @ Northwestern
13 Clemson 5-0 beat Virginia Tech, next Boston College @ home
14 Texas 4-0 beat, next Oklahoma @ Texas State Fair (I mean the Cotton Bowl).
15 Houston 5-0 beat UTEP, next East Carolina @ home
Some poll heavy teams got dropped this week, including Nebraska, Virginia Tech, South Carolina, Florida, and Baylor. We’ll see the BCS standings in week 8 but Stanford gets to watch from below in the polls instead of sitting in the driver’s seat at #1. The same goes for Boise St which gets stuck at #5 or #6 each week and will see teams jump over them even though the Broncos will be ranked ahead of the leap froggers.
What’s strange is a team beating Kentucky or Mississippi gets more credit than a team beating Nevada or UCLA. Every conference has it’s scrap teams so to say Houston and Kansas St haven’t done anything just shows how biased the polls can get. It’s not like Oregon hasn’t been impressive in it’s wins, but they’ve got plenty of time to move up so even giving 1 loss teams higher rankings than undefeated teams this early in the season makes the polls seem like a co-workers sandwich left in the fridge for 8 weeks. How many times does Florida St need to lose before it’s out of the rankings? The coaches must be thinking-lets see how long we can leave that sandwich in the fridge. Sort of like Ohio St and BCS games–they can go more than Hawaii or TCU but it’s ok for the Buckeyes to lose all the time.
Dallas-Fort Worth seems to be the happening place this week (#1 for sports) with the Sooners and Longhorns in town for the Red River Rivalry for a Big 12 showdown of undefeateds and the Tigers coming to play the Rangers in the ALCS, but while some Swift concert takes over in Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, TX, the Cowboys get a break into the NFL’s no man’s land with a bye and a .500 record. It’s too bad we can’t see or hear Patterson of the Horned Frogs go toe to toe with SMU again this week.
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