cartman's FOFC College Football Top 25, Week 10 open for voting

[cartman]

Time to open the poll up for voting. Submissions are due by kickoff of the Georgia Tech-Virginia Tech game on Thursday, Nov. 10th. Here's how last week's poll fared:

Team Rec. Weekend Result
1. LSU 9-0 beat #2 Alabama 9-6 (OT)
2. Alabama 8-1 lost to #1 LSU 9-6 (OT)
3. Oklahoma State 9-0 beat #16 Kansas State 52-45
4. Stanford 9-0 beat Oregon State 38-13
5. Boise State 8-0 beat UNLV 48-21
6. Oklahoma 8-1 beat Texas A&M 41-25
7. Oregon 8-1 beat Washington 34-17
8. Nebraska 7-2 lost to Northwestern 28-25
T9. Virginia Tech 8-1 Bye
T9. South Carolina 7-2 lost to #11 Arkansas 44-28
11. Arkansas 8-1 beat #9 South Carolina 44-28
12. Clemson 8-1 Bye
13. Michigan 7-2 lost to Iowa 24-16
14. Houston 9-0 beat UAB 56-13
15. Penn State 8-1 Bye
16. Kansas State 7-2 lost to #3 Oklahoma State 52-45
17. Wisconsin 7-2 beat Purdue 62-17
18. Arizona State 6-3 lost to UCLA 29-28
19. Georgia 7-2 beat New Mexico State 62-17
20. Michigan State 7-2 beat Minnesota 31-24
21. Cincinnati 7-1 beat Pittsburgh 26-23
22. USC 7-2 beat Colorado 42-17
23. Georgia Tech 7-2 Bye
24. Texas 6-2 beat Texas Tech 52-20
25. Southern Miss 8-1 beat East Carolina 48-28

For reference, here is last week's voting poll: cartman's FOFC Top 25 poll, Week 9 open for voting - Front Office Football Central (http://www.operationsports.com/fofc/showthread.php?t=82643)

[britrock88]

1. Louisiana State
2. Alabama
3. Boise State
4. Oklahoma
5. Oklahoma State
6. Stanford
7. Oregon
8. Michigan
9. Wisconsin
10. Clemson
11. Notre Dame
12. Southern Mississippi
13. Nebraska
14. Texas A&M
15. Texas Christian
16. Texas
17. Florida State
18. Arizona State
19. Georgia
20. Virginia Tech
21. Southern California
22. Toledo
23. South Carolina
24. Houston
25. Georgia Tech

[JonInMiddleGA]

from Jon's Three Cents | Because two cents worth isn't always enough (http://jonsthreecents.wordpress.com/)

1. LSU
2. Oklahoma State
3. Alabama
4. Stanford
5. Oregon
6. Boise State
7. Oklahoma
8. Arkansas
9. Virginia Tech
10. Houston
11. Clemson
12. Michigan State
13. Penn State
14. Wisconsin
15. South Carolina
16. TCU
17. Nebraska
18. USC
19. Georgia
20. Kansas State
21. Georgia Tech
22. Michigan
23. Texas
24. Cincinnati
25. Southern Miss

[SnDvls]

1. LSU
2. Stanford
3. Oklahoma State
4. Boise State
5. Oregon
6. Alabama
7. Arkansas
8. Oklahoma
9. Clemson
10. Houston
11. Virginia Tech
12. Penn State
13. Cincinnati
14. Southern Miss
15. Michigan State
16. Wisconsin
17. Kansas State
18.USC
19. Georgia
20. Georgia Tech
21. Nebraska
22. South Carolina
23. Michigan
24. Texas
25. TCU

[Cuckoo]

1. LSU (2)
2. Stanford (3)
3. Oklahoma State (4)
4. Alabama (1)
5. Boise State (5)
6. Oregon (6)
7. Oklahoma (7)
8. Arkansas (8)
9. Virginia Tech (9)
10. Clemson (13)
11. Houston (14)
12. Penn State (15)
13. Michigan State (17)
14. Wisconsin (18)
15. South Carolina (11)
16. Georgia (20)
17. Nebraska (10)
18. Georgia Tech (21)
19. Kansas State (16)
20. Michigan (12)
21. USC (22)
22. Cincinnati (24)
23. Texas (25)
24. TCU (NR)
25. Southern Mississippi (NR)

With last week's ranking. Dropped out: Arizona State, West Virginia

[General Mike]

1. LSU Tigers
2. Stanford Cardinal
3. Boise State Broncos
4. Oklahoma State Cowboys
5. Alabama Crimson Tide
6. Oregon Ducks
7. Arkansas Razorbacks
8. Oklahoma Sooners
9. Clemson Tigers
10. Virginia Tech Hokies
11. Penn State Nittany Lions
12. Houston Cougars
13. South Carolina Gamecocks
14. Georgia Bulldogs
15. Cincinnati Bearcats
16. Kansas State Wildcats
17. Michigan State Spartans
18. Wisconsin Badgers
19. USC Trojans
20. Southern Miss Golden Eagles
21. Georgia Tech Yellowjackets
22. Texas Longhorns
23. Nebraska Cornhuskers
24. Auburn Tigers
25. Michigan Wolverines

[tarcone]

1. LSU
2. Oklahoma St.
3. Stanford
4. Boise St.
5. Alabama
6. Oklahoma
7. Oregon
8. Arkansas
9. Virginia Tech
10. Clemson
11. Houston
12. Penn St.
13. Wisconsin
14. Georgia
15. Cincinnati
16. Michigan St.
17. South Carolina
18. Southern Miss
19. Nebraska
20. USC
21. Georgia Tech
22. Kansas St.
23. Texas
24. Michigan
25. Iowa

[Young Drachma]

1 Oklahoma State
2 Stanford
3 Boise State
4 LSU
5 Houston
6 Oklahoma
7 Alabama
8 Clemson
9 Virginia Tech
10 Penn State
11 Oregon
12 Arkansas
13 Southern Mississippi
14 Cincinnati
15 USC
16 Michigan
17 South Carolina
18 Texas
19 Louisiana-Lafayette
20 Nebraska
21 Kansas State
22 Georgia
23 Georgia Tech
24 Wisconsin
25 TCU

Here's the entire 120 (http://games.sandboxsandbox.com/2011/11/08/omnivore-cfb-computer-rankings-november-7-2011/) for this week.

[britrock88]

DC, straight sorting by loss total? Interesting...

(and pardon me if I gauged that incorrectly)

[Young Drachma]

DC, straight sorting by loss total? Interesting...

(and pardon me if I gauged that incorrectly)

No that's not my aim. SoS, Opp. record, Opp. Opp. record is in there too. It's just a strange week.

[cartman]

Here's the Top 25 from Solecismic's Football Frontier:

1. LSU
2. Alabama
3. Oklahoma
4. Boise State
5. Stanford
6. Texas
7. Oregon
8. Oklahoma State
9. Georgia
10. Virginia Tech
11. South Carolina
12. Penn State
13. USC
14. Clemson
15. Houston
16. Michigan
17. Southern Mississippi
18. Cincinnati
19. Arkansas
20. Kansas State
21. Wisconsin
22. Georgia Tech
23. Arizona State
24. Illinois
25. TCU

[Galaxy]

1) LSU
2) Oklahoma State
3) Stanford
4) Boise State
5) Alabama
6) Oregon
7) Oklahoma
8) Arkansas
9) Virginia Tech
10) Clemson
11) Houston
12) Penn State
13) Cincinnati
14) Wisconsin
15) Kansas State
16) Michigan State
17) South Carolina
18) Texas
19) Nebraska
20) Michigan
21) Georgia
22) Georgia Tech
23) USC
24) Southern Mississippi
25) Auburn

[Tigercat]

Don't blame me, blame the formula I use. ;)

DC, when your #4 team has two wins that are better than any one win any team in front of them has, I think your rankings are flawed in their emphasis. Your formula isn't passing the good subjective or objective test.

[Young Drachma]

DC, when your #4 team has two wins that are better than any one win any team in front of them has, I think your rankings are flawed in their emphasis. Your formula isn't passing the good subjective or objective test.

I didn't create a ranking intending to pick the best team in the country. It's really at equalizing the playing field to measure non-major programs. That's what prompted me to do it and so, by that fact...I never set out to validate conventional wisdom. If it happens that way, dandy. And sure, I like being rated among the higher computer rankings (http://masseyratings.com/cf/compare.htm) rather than scrolling to the end and knowing mine will be somewhere in the last dozen or so.

I could game the formula to do that, if I wanted to. But it's not what my aim is, ultimately and it never has been.

[Young Drachma]

Dola:

It's been the preface of the rankings page since I started it too. (http://games.sandboxsandbox.com/omnivore-computer-rankings/):


The Omnivore rankings do not care about how many championships your university historically won or how great you were even last year. It cares about on the field performance and that’s it. That was the original intent and I try to stay as close to that original intent as possible, even at the risk of offending my own sense of who is right or wrong in the college football universe.

[Tigercat]

I think that is cool, and tweaking formulas so that some of them even the playing field for smaller schools sounds like a great idea. But, again, LSU has two wins that are better (by your rankings) than any one win any of the three teams ahead of them have. That is pure on the field performance against teams as measured by your own formula. Doesn't that seem like a fatal flaw to you? Something that maybe should be addressed somehow? I mean it's your rankings and all, I just can't get past any computer rankings that would put out that result. Like someone telling me an airplane is really a candybar.

[Suicane75]

1. LSU
2. Stanford
3. Oklahoma State
4. Boise State
5. Alabama
6. Oregon
7. Oklahoma
8. Houston
9. Arkansas
10. Clemson
11. Virginia Tech
12. Penn State
13. USC
14. Georgia
15. Michigan
16. Wisconsin
17. Cincinnati
18. South Carolina
19. Michigan State
20. Georgia Tech
21. Southern Miss
22. Arizona State
23. Kansas State
24. Nebraska
25. Texas

[cartman]

bump, submissions are due this evening.

My Top 25:
1. LSU
2. Boise State
3. Oklahoma State
4. Stanford
5. Alabama
6. Oregon
7. Arkansas
8. Virginia Tech
9. Oklahoma
10. Clemson
11. Houston
12. Nebraska
13. Penn State
14. South Carolina
15. Michigan State
16. Wisconsin
17. Georgia
18. Georgia Tech
19. Texas
20. Kansas State
21. USC
22. Southern Mississippi
23. Auburn
24. Michigan
25. Cincinnati