cartman's FOFC College Football Top 25 Poll results, games of Oct. 13th.

[cartman]

Before the first game of the new week is finished, here are the results for this past week's games. Will this week have as many upsets as the past few weeks?

Team Votes Prev. Weekend Opponent
1. Ohio State (15) 609 2 vs. Michigan State
2. South Florida (9) 589 4 at Rutgers
3. Boston College 540 5 Bye
4. LSU (1) 510 1 vs. #18 Auburn
5. Oklahoma 509 6 at Iowa State
6. South Carolina 459 7 vs. Vanderbilt
7. Oregon 445 8 at Washington
8. Arizona State 443 12 Bye
9. West Virginia 424 10 vs. Mississippi State
10. Kentucky 402 19 vs. #15 Florida
11. California 340 3 at UCLA
12. Kansas 339 18 at Colorado
T13. USC 322 11 at Notre Dame
T13. Virginia Tech 322 15 Bye
15. Florida 307 14 at #10 Kentucky
16. Missouri 255 9 vs. #19 Texas Tech
17. Hawaii 211 17 Bye
18. Auburn 193 22 at #4 LSU
19. Texas Tech 125 NR at #16 Missouri
20. Cincinnati 124 13 at Pittsburgh
21. Texas 121 23 at Baylor
22. Virginia 103 NR at Maryland
23. Michigan 87 NR at Illinois
24. Tennessee 65 NR at Alabama
25. Georgia 62 NR Bye

Dropped out:
#16 Illinois, #20 Wisconsin, #21 Florida State, #24 Purdue, #25 Connecticut

Also receiving votes:
Illinois 53,Kansas State 45,Penn State 31.5,Boise State 23,Connecticut 18,
Alabama 9,Wake Forest 9,Rutgers 8,Wisconsin 7,Oklahoma State 5,
Florida State 4.5,Maryland 3,Texas A&M 2,Troy 1

Thanks to the following FOFCers for voting this week:

Blade6119
bronconick
bsak16
Butter_of_69
cartman
CU Tiger
Dark Cloud
duckman
Eaglesfan27
General Mike
gold101
Huckleberry
jbergey22
Leonidas
maxwarrior
Mike1409
Mr. Snappy
Noop
Racer
SnDvls
Solecismic's Football Frontier
sooner333
st.cronin
TazFTW
vex

[Mr. Snappy]

Cincinnati shows up in the also receiving votes section as "Cinncinati". Did someone misspell the city and cost them a spot in the rankings?

[cartman]

Cincinnati shows up in the also receiving votes section as "Cinncinati". Did someone misspell the city and cost them a spot in the rankings?

I'll fix that. My parser should have caught the misspelling, but it didn't.

[B & B]

Did 9 ppl really think that USF was the No.1 team in the nation?

[sooner333]

Did 9 ppl really think that USF was the No.1 team in the nation?

I had actually moved up USF to #1 this week. After thinking about what they had accomplished and what the other teams near the top had accomplished, I felt that USF was #1 because I had some doubt as to whether any team up there would necessarily beat them on a neutral site. Ohio State hasn't played anyone, we don't know about them. Oklahoma did stumble to Colorado. LSU might have had a hard time on offense against LSU. Boston College is a paper tiger. While I had a hard time making the decision, I felt that what they had accomplished this year on the football field had spoken for itself and with everyone else stumbling or playing bad schedules, it was getting harder and harder to ignore them.

Obviously, I was wrong and will rank them lower accordingly next week. Their defense was a bit overrated by me. Next week's rankings will again be tough at the top as well as the bottom. It really depends on how Ohio State, Oklahoma, and LSU play.

[Doug5984]

Obviously, I was wrong and will rank them lower accordingly next week. Their defense was a bit overrated by me. Next week's rankings will again be tough at the top as well as the bottom. It really depends on how Ohio State, Oklahoma, and LSU play.

Food for thought- lets say Ohio State loses, and both LSU and Oklahoma win, both play very good games.

Do both LSU and Oklahoma jump up ahead of BC, to take 1 & 2? Or does BC move up, even though they haven't played anyone- and are sitting on a bye week.

[sooner333]

Food for thought- lets say Ohio State loses, and both LSU and Oklahoma win, both play very good games.

Do both LSU and Oklahoma jump up ahead of BC, to take 1 & 2? Or does BC move up, even though they haven't played anyone- and are sitting on a bye week.

Well, I don't think they will in the overall poll, but they are both already ahead of BC in my rankings and will stay that way this week if both win (or in OU's case, if it's not a "close" game in terms of competitiveness). If BC goes into Blacksburg and wins, I will likely change my tune. It would take a win like that to prove to me that BC is a team worthy of playing for the national championship. Until then, they are just a team that hasn't proven anything. Ohio State is somewhat similar, but I think they'd beat BC head to head, that's why I have them ahead of BC in my rankings.

It's not like I don't think BC is deserving of a NC bid if they win out, but this poll is based on this week, not the end of the year. If USF had BC's early schedule, I would not have put them ahead.

[cartman]

Bump for today's games.