The College Football Blog: 2009 Season Résumé Rankings (After Week 13)

Season Résumé Rankings After Week 13

1. Alabama 12-0 (1st)
2. Texas 12-0 (2nd)
3. Florida 12-0 (3rd)
4. TCU 12-0 (4th)
5. Cincinnati 11-0 (5th)
6. Boise State 12-0 (6th)
7. Oregon 9-2 (9th)
8. Iowa 10-2 (10th)
9. Ohio State 10-2 (NR)
10. Georgia Tech 10-2 (7th)

Comments: Man, these rankings are so much easier to do than the power rankings and they seem to make a lot more sense. The top 6 teams in my rankings won last weekend and the top 6 spots remained unchanged. After that it got a bit more complicated. Both Georgia Tech and Pitt lost last weekend, meaning there were no longer any 1-loss teams in the FBS. So I had to separate all of the various 2-loss teams to come up with the 7-10 spots in the rankings. Oregon and Iowa moved up 2 spots each this week to replace Tech and Pitt at 7th and 8th respectively. Ohio State jumped into my rankings in the #9 spot as Pitt fell from 8th all the way out of my rankings. The Jackets fell 3 spots in my rankings from 7th to 10th, just barely staying in the top 10. It really wasn’t that hard to choose from among the 2-loss teams. BYU, Houston, Central Michigan, and Pitt were basically eliminated because of their weak conference schedules. Pitt, BYU, and Houston all also had bad losses. Penn State lost to both Ohio State and Iowa at home by double digits and doesn’t really have a great win. So I ended up ranking the resumes of the 2-loss teams in this order: Oregon, Iowa, Ohio State, and GT (7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th).