CBS Sports Blog Poll Week 11 - Stability At The Top of the College Football Rankings

by Jon Johnston on Nov 16, 2009 6:00 AM CST in BlogPoll

- The top nine teams remain the same. With six undefeated teams left in mid-November, we'll most likely hear a lot more screaming about a playoff system this week, how we need one to repair all the injustices in the world. It's been that way for a long time now, but every season teams stumble and the system as it stands turns out to be not nearly as bad as it seems now.

- There are only two teams with one loss at this point, Georgia Tech and Pittsburgh.

- Ohio State is the highest ranked two-loss team. Do they deserve to be above Pitt?

- Otherwise, you've got a big gob of teams at 7-3. These will be worked out of the system in the next week or so as November takes its toll.

- Does Houston still deserve to be ranked over, say, Nebraska?

Rank	Team	Delta

1	Florida
2	Texas
3	Alabama
4	TCU
5	Boise State
6	Cincinnati
7	Georgia Tech
8	Ohio State
9	Pittsburgh
10	Oklahoma State	2
11	LSU	3
12	Oregon	6
13	Penn State	4
14	Wisconsin	6
15	Stanford	10
16	Virginia Tech	5
17	Utah	6
18	Brigham Young	4
19	Oregon State
20	Miami (Florida)	10
21	Southern Cal	6
22	Clemson
23	Iowa	4
24	Navy
25	Houston	12
Last week's ballot

Dropped Out: Arizona (#16), West Virginia (#23).

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It's That Time of Year

With the three weeks left in the season, if this is like the past few, there will be some radical adjustments in the BCS rankings. I don’t need a playoff and I wish that everyone would just shut up about it. Who gives a rip if we have a clearly defined National Champion. Quick now, without looking name the past five national champs! And, right after that the past five Heisman Trophy winners! No one knows except those fans of the team that actually is named. Crips, even with a playoff, can anyone name the past five basketball champs? No peeking!

The way it looks to me, if Boise State and TCU win out, both of them have to be in one of the games. TCU may be good enough to justify a spot in the title game, and boy won’t it be interesting to see if they can get that #2 spot if someone happens to know off Texas. As some have suggested, if Nebraska plays the kind of defense it did against OU, assuming the make the Big XII title game, they have a shot to make it interesting. Under those circumstances, will the SEC loser drop below TCU. Will a Cincinnati win over Pitt be enough to bounce them over TCU? When you think about it, it could be a wild three weeks for the BCS rankings. It would appear to me that the SEC will get two teams in for sure, perhaps three if LSU hangs in there. The PAC-10 and ACC do not look to have more than one deserving team. People in this neck of the woods are screaming that Iowa should get a spot. What about Okie State? I guess that is why they play the games and why all of us will have to sit back and watch it all unfold. Of course, being a Nebraska fan makes me biased, but I would love to see them win out and pull off an upset in Dallas and get in. That would be sweet, though I am sure that Texas would then get a BCS spot and OSU would be on the outside looking in. There’s an awful lot of football yet to be played and we best hold on to our hats! You know, the professor is bringing the Wildcats to town this weekend and that may be the toughest task the Huskers have faced yet.

by jon's only friend on Nov 16, 2009 6:58 AM CST reply actions

A conference cannot have any more than two BCS slots.

by WayneM on Nov 16, 2009 8:16 AM CST up reply actions

I personally would love a playoff

also would be curious to see what will happen if Boise or tcu goes undefeated the uproar that it will call. Though I will be SHOCKED if Brian Kelly, Patterson or the boise coach ( can’t think of his name of the top of my head ) will be the head coach come bowl time.

by huskermic on Nov 16, 2009 10:20 AM CST reply actions

While both have bad losses, but yeah...

I would take Houston over us right now. Far better wins. Okie State on the road and a win over TTech. I don’t think that anyone wants to be reminded of what TTech did to us, esp. since all Tech did was ball control for the entire 2nd half. Not pretty.

by meatybob on Nov 16, 2009 12:55 PM CST reply actions