AP Top 25 and USA Today Coaches Poll

[JonLP24]

2009 NCAA Football Rankings - AP Top 25 Week 3 (Sept. 13)

RK TEAM RECORD PTS PVS
1 Florida (56) 2-0 1491 1
2 Texas (1) 2-0 1404 2
3 USC (1) 2-0 1396 3
4 Alabama (2) 2-0 1328 4
5 Mississippi 1-0 1145 6
5 Penn State 2-0 1145 7
7 Brigham Young 2-0 1122 9
8 California 2-0 1058 10
9 LSU 2-0 951 11
10 Boise State 2-0 945 12
11 Ohio State 1-1 840 8
12 Oklahoma 1-1 835 13
13 Virginia Tech 1-1 749 14
14 Georgia Tech 2-0 683 15
15 TCU 1-0 609 16
16 Oklahoma State 1-1 445 5
17 Cincinnati 2-0 407 23
18 Utah 2-0 405 17
19 Nebraska 2-0 365 22
20 Miami (FL) 1-0 364 20
21 Houston 2-0 341 NR
22 Kansas 2-0 271 24
23 Georgia 1-1 260 21
24 North Carolina 2-0 250 19
25 Michigan 2-0 169 NR
* Dropped from rankings: Notre Dame 18, Missouri 25

* Others receiving votes: Missouri 93, Pittsburgh 87, Oregon State 64, Texas Tech 54, UCLA 44, Notre Dame 40, West Virginia 30, Auburn 26, Iowa 23, Boston College 19, Baylor 15, Clemson 10, Oregon 5, Arizona 4, Arkansas 3, Colorado State 2, Florida State 1, Minnesota 1, South Florida 1
http://espn.go.com/college-football/rankings?poll=1

2009 NCAA Football Rankings - USA Today Coaches' Poll Week 3 (Sept. 13)

RK TEAM RECORD PTS PVS
1 Florida (56) 2-0 1472 1
2 Texas 2-0 1399 2
3 USC (3) 2-0 1368 3
4 Alabama 2-0 1277 4
5 Penn State 2-0 1216 5
6 Mississippi 1-0 1060 8
7 LSU 2-0 1051 9
7 California 2-0 1051 10
9 Brigham Young 2-0 941 12
10 Boise State 2-0 913 11
11 Ohio State 1-1 855 7
12 Oklahoma 1-1 794 14
13 Georgia Tech 2-0 771 13
14 Virginia Tech 1-1 709 15
15 TCU 1-0 648 16
16 Utah 2-0 533 17
17 Oklahoma State 1-1 485 6
18 Nebraska 2-0 471 18
19 North Carolina 2-0 341 19
20 Georgia 1-1 333 21
21 Cincinnati 2-0 328 23
22 Miami (FL) 1-0 291 22
23 Kansas 2-0 195 25
24 Oregon State 2-0 118 24
25 Missouri 2-0 104 NR
* Dropped from rankings: Notre Dame 20

* Others receiving votes: Michigan 84, Houston 69, Texas Tech 68, Pittsburgh 40, Notre Dame 32, Auburn 30, Iowa 27, Florida State 19, Oregon 16, West Virginia 16, UCLA 13, South Florida 13, Kentucky 9, Arizona 4, CENTRL MICHIGAN 2, Colorado State 2, Minnesota 2, Northwestern 2, Arkansas 1, Tulsa 1, South Carolina 1
http://espn.go.com/college-football/rankings/_/poll/2

[Capt. America]

1. Its odd that Mizzou can win and still get bumped out.

[JonLP24]

3. It happened to Iowa after their one point win against Northern Iowa

Mizzou probably didn't have enough style points against Bowling Green. :shrug:

Interesting thing about this year it appears the gap between BCS teams and non-BCS teams appears to be closing if not closed already.

[joeybee12]

2. Why is OSU still 11?

Is there no justice, is there no God? Why?

[JonLP24]

4. They did play a quality opponent

While most teams played teams that they should beat. I think it's reasonable to be ahead of 1-1 Virginia Tech and 1-1 Oklahoma St. VT lost to a quality opponent and Okla. St beat Georgia but lost to Houston.

[joeybee12]

5. Yeah, but they barely won the week before, at home, wasn't it?

I would think they would have dropped farther.

[JonLP24]

6. Oh lack of style points

Navy was a winning team last year. But it doesn't mean much at this point. When it gets to week 8 and teams play more games it will become more clearer.

[PVnRT]

7. I don't know if Michigan has really earned their way back in

I hate these early-season polls, since they don't really reflect anything, but they become the basis of the rankings that matter later on.

[joeybee12]

8. Very true...ND is screwed...

...they dropped out early and their schedule is such that it will be a while before they get ranked, if ever...if Michigan deserves to be in, then they do, a close loss at Michigan...people say the BCS is objective, but the BCS rankings are weighted on these very subjective polls.

[madinmaryland]

9. All the more reason for a tournament with the Conference Champions.

Get rid of as much of the subjectivity as possible. (and force the Amish into a conference).

[JonLP24]

10. I don't agree with that

You could have 2 teams from 1 conference that is better then any team another conference puts out. I say keep the BCS rankings to rank the top 8 and do a playoff from there. If you can't get into the top 8,(an 11-1 record in a BCS conference should be good enough for that) then you don't deserve to get in.

[madinmaryland]

11. Dude! The one and out works well at every other division down to Pop Warner.

You can take the champions of the major conferences and throw in a couple mid-majors and a couple of major wild-cards (from conferences) and you will have an exciting playoff.

Rankings are bullshit. Win your conference or you are out.

[PVnRT]

13. Using "wild cards" would require rankings, though

The problem is that the BCS rankings take into account bullshit human polls. I mean, really, how many teams does a coach watch each week? It's in their best interest to vote up teams they're going to play (to increase their strength of schedule) and vote up their conference (to make them look good via halo effect).

[Jacobair]

12. CAL is #8!

I think I'll screen cap that because as Al Michaels once asked about believing in miracles....!!!
What a joy it is to follow a college football team that's good.