Tuesday, November 17, 2009

The College Football Blog: 2009 Season Résumé Rankings (After Week 11)

Season Résumé Rankings After Week 11

1. Alabama 10-0 (1st)
2. Texas 10-0 (2nd)
3. Florida 10-0 (3rd)
4. TCU 10-0 (4th)
5. Cincinnati 10-0 (6th)
6. Boise State 10-0 (5th)
7. Georgia Tech 10-1 (7th)
8. Pittsburgh 9-1 (NR)
9. Oregon 8-2 (10th)
10. LSU 8-2 (NR)

Comments: These rankings are easier to do than the regular power rankings and I’m becoming more and more convinced that this is the way to go if you have to have rankings. Alabama is clearly the #1 team because they have the least amount of garbage wins and the most impressive wins. They’ve also won almost all of their games convincingly. Texas and Florida are neck and neck for the 2nd spot. I give Texas the nod because they’ve done a better job blowing out weaker teams. The other 3 undefeated teams are harder to separate because they have so many garbage or semi-garbage wins. TCU has blown away the competition and thus they get the #4 spot. I moved Cinci ahead of Boise State because Cinci got another win over a decent team last week while Boise State won at home against another weak team (regardless of what Idaho’s record is, they’d be double digit underdogs against WV, the team Cinci beat). Amazingly, there are only 2 teams in the country with 1 loss. Tech has played a tougher schedule than Pitt but I moved the Panthers ahead of all the 2-loss teams this week after they beat a solid ND team. It was difficult to fill out the final 2 spots because there were 13 2-loss teams to choose from. It came down to Oregon, LSU, Oklahoma State, Ohio State and Iowa. Ohio State has the worst loss among all of these teams (at Purdue) so they were eliminated. Oklahoma State and Iowa both have bad losses at home (to Houston and Northwestern), while Oregon’s losses were on the road to Boise State and Stanford, and LSU’s losses are against Florida and at Bama. So I went with Oregon and LSU. I went with Oregon ahead of LSU because their wins have been more impressive.

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