| 29 November 2010
So Auburn is the new number on the basis of wins over LSU, Bama, Arkansas, and South Carolina. Oregon is still number two but the Pac 10 is starting to fade in terms of SOS conference wise.
I have Wisconsin as the best one loss team. Road loss to a top ten team, early in the year and it was a very close loss.
Stanford is next with a road loss at Oregon (but the margin is the reason that they are 5th)
Ohio State due to scheduling issues does not have a win over a top 25 team, so I'm placing 11-1 Michigan State who beat Wisconsin over them.
Boise is learning that you can play a crappy schedule and go undefeated, but lose a game and you've just played a crappy schedule. Nevada is now the conference winner and beat Boise so they are ahead of Boise
VA Tech has won 10 games in a row and went undefeated in conference that makes them a better team than Boise at this point.
With two impressive back to back road wins, OU vaults back up to the top of the Big 12 charts with their matchup with NU to decide the title. Right now OU is ahead of NU due to losing two roads to Top 25 teams versus Nebraska losing at home to the worst Texas team in basically two decades.
If Oregon loses, then I'll move TCU to play Auburn. If Auburn loses, then I'll move TCU to play Oregon. TaW doesn't make the rules, but if you are undefeated, then you are undefeated. Just ask the 1984 BYU Cougars who got to win a title playing a 5 loss Michigan team in their bowl game. TCU will get to play either Oregon or Auburn to prove the whole Non AQ argument. Why TCU? Stanford has already lost once so there's no point in them playing Oregon again. Wisconsin lost to Michigan State and is only "winning" the Big Ten via tiebreaker due to one loss Ohio State which didn't play Michigan State.
Finally one last paragraph for outraged TexAggie fans. 1 + 1 + 1 = 3. You can NEVER use head to head to break a tiebreaker involving 3 teams. You lost to Arkansas that's why you are not going to the Big 12 title game. 10-2 is better than 9-3, always has been in the history of college football. And you needed an OU win to even force the 3 way tie. You cannot conveniently forget that OSU beat you, just like the math impaired Longhorns in 2008 cannot ignore that they lost to Texas Tech. If you want to blame anyone, blame Sherman for not benching Jarrod Johnson in Stillwater.
Tilting at Windmills Ballot - Week 14
| Rank | Team | Delta |
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| 1 | Auburn Tigers | -- |
| 2 | Oregon Ducks | -- |
| 3 | TCU Horned Frogs | -- |
| 4 | Wisconsin Badgers | -- |
| 5 | Stanford Cardinal | -- |
| 6 | Michigan St. Spartans | -- |
| 7 | Ohio St. Buckeyes | -- |
| 8 | Arkansas Razorbacks | -- |
| 9 | Oklahoma Sooners | -- |
| 10 | LSU Tigers | -- |
| 11 | Nebraska Cornhuskers | -- |
| 12 | Missouri Tigers | -- |
| 13 | Oklahoma St. Cowboys | -- |
| 14 | Virginia Tech Hokies | -- |
| 15 | Alabama Crimson Tide | -- |
| 16 | Nevada Wolf Pack | -- |
| 17 | Texas A&M Aggies | -- |
| 18 | Boise St. Broncos | -- |
| 19 | Mississippi St. Bulldogs | -- |
| 20 | Utah Utes | -- |
| 21 | Florida St. Seminoles | -- |
| 22 | Arizona Wildcats | -- |
| 23 | West Virginia Mountaineers | -- |
| 24 | Iowa Hawkeyes | -- |
| 25 | Northern Illinois Huskies | -- |
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