Top 25 results and potential impact, Coaches Poll
While we wait for the BCS Standings to come out tonight, we will look at what we already know and what we project to happen.
Top 25 results
| Top 25 results from weekend of October 18th, 2014 |
| Results |
| #15 Michigan (4-2) defeated #1 Michigan State (4-1) 31-28 |
| #2 Missouri (5-0) beat #9 Arkansas 52-24 |
| #3 Kansas (6-0) beat Oklahoma (4-3) 55-41 |
| #6 Oregon (5-1) beat down BYU (1-6) 55-7 |
| #7 Boise State (7-0) killed Tulsa (3-4) 56-0 |
| #8 UCLA (7-0) beat Indiana (1-5) 40-24 |
| #10 Virginia Tech (5-1) beat UCF (4-3) 31-19 |
| #11 TCU (6-1) slipped past #22 USC (5-2) 40-34 |
| #13 Wisconsin (5-1) beat Nebraska (2-4) 56-22 |
| #14 LSU (5-1) beat South Carolina (2-3) 57-41 |
| Texas A&M (4-2) beat #16 Mississippi State (4-2) 42-21 |
| #25 Rutgers (5-1) beat #17 Illinois (3-3) 28-17 |
| Minnesota (3-4) beat #18 Notre Dame (4-3) 45-38 |
| Alabama (3-4) beat #19 Ole Miss (5-3) 38-21 |
| #20 Fresno State (6-1) whooped Wyoming (2-4) 31-24 |
| #21 Georgia Tech (5-1) beat UNC (5-2) 42-35 in OT |
| Army (5-2) beat #23 Florida (3-4) 56-52 |
| #24 Auburn (3-3) beat Tennessee (4-4) 26-20 |
Coaches Top 25
| NCAA Football Rankings - Coaches Poll - Updated: Oct 19, 2014 |
| RK | LW | TEAM (VOTES) | W | L | POINTS |
| 1 | 2 | Missouri (38) | 5 | 0 | 1502 |
| 2 | 4 | Ohio State | 6 | 0 | 1456 |
| 3 | 3 | Kansas (1) | 6 | 0 | 1362 |
| 4 | 5 | USF | 5 | 0 | 1320 |
| 5 | 8 | UCLA | 7 | 0 | 1248 |
| 6 | 7 | Boise State | 7 | 0 | 1117 |
| 7 | 6 | Oregon | 5 | 1 | 1113 |
| 8 | 1 | Michigan State | 4 | 1 | 1039 |
| 9 | 10 | Virginia Tech | 5 | 1 | 951 |
| 10 | 11 | TCU | 6 | 1 | 908 |
| 11 | 12 | Penn State | 6 | 1 | 862 |
| 12 | 15 | Michigan | 4 | 2 | 853 |
| 13 | 13 | Wisconsin | 5 | 1 | 821 |
| 14 | 14 | LSU | 5 | 1 | 802 |
| 15 | 9 | Arkansas | 7 | 1 | 770 |
| 16 | 20 | Fresno State | 6 | 1 | 551 |
| 17 | 21 | Georgia Tech | 5 | 1 | 511 |
| 18 | 25 | Rutgers | 5 | 1 | 448 |
| 19 | 24 | Auburn | 3 | 3 | 387 |
| 20 | 16 | Mississippi State | 4 | 2 | 306 |
| 21 | -- | California | 6 | 1 | 298 |
| 22 | 17 | Illinois | 3 | 3 | 294 |
| 23 | 22 | USC | 5 | 2 | 284 |
| 24 | -- | Iowa | 4 | 2 | 211 |
| 25 | 19 | Ole Miss | 5 | 3 | 117 |
Missouri moving to #1 is huge, but Ohio State leaped to #2 without even playing, which shows the lack of respect the defending national champion Kansas Jayhawks (#3, 6-0) and the Big XII are getting right now.
If Ohio State and UCLA win out look their their more respected conferences to get them into the national championship. Although to be fair the Big 10 looks amazingly deep right now, with 8 teams ranked in the top 25. Of those ranked teams only 3of their losses (Iowa's 2, and one of Michigan's which was to #1 Missouri) have come to non-conference opponents.
The Pac-12 also is deep, with 5 ranked teams, and only one of the losses that their top 25 teams suffered being to a non-conference opponent.
Missouri and Kansas are heads and shoulders above the rest of the Big XII as last week showed when Missouri destroyed a highly respected Arkansas, but Arkansas dropped to #15, behind several 2 loss teams.
At this point it looks like the only undefeated teams Missouri and Kansas will stay ahead of are Boise State (#6, 7-0) and Navy (8-0).
Navy looks to be the best contender for the non-AQ automatic qualifying spot, although they have only played one team with a non-losing record so far (Nevada, 4-3).
Missouri should be #1 in the first BCS Polls, but don't look for them to hold that spot for long. Another thing hurting Missouri and Kansas is that they play two weeks before the conference championships, meaning the Big XII championship meeting between them cannot be two undefeated teams which could have possibly catapulted them past a highly regarded Pac-12 or Big 10 team beating a lower ranked opponent.