Week 3 CFRA Rankings
Posted by deaconcat08 on September 20, 2009
It’s nice to see the College Football Researcher’s Association shake-up college football by producing a somewhat unconventional poll. While the general makeup is similar, there were a few teams who were ranked either much higher or lower than in the AP and Coaches. Here are this week’s rankings:
1. Florida (7)- 175 points
2. Texas- 168 points
3. Alabama- 161 points
4. Penn State- 149 points
5. Ole Miss- 144 points
6. California- 143 points
7. Boise State- 133 points
8. LSU- 125 points
9. Cincinnati- 100 points
10. TCU- 98 points
11. Miami- 92 points
12. Oklahoma- 90 points
12. Ohio State- 90 points
14. Southern Cal- 76 points
15. Kansas- 67 points
16. Virginia Tech- 64 points
17. Oklahoma State- 62 points
18. Houston- 48 points
19. Michigan- 45 points
20. North Carolina- 41 points
21. Georgia- 31 points
22. Brigham Young- 28 points
23. Auburn- 26 points
24. Missouri- 21 points
25. Florida State- 18 points
25. Nebraska- 18 points
Others Receiving Votes: Iowa 10, Washington 10, South Florida 9, Pittsburgh 6, Georgia Tech 6, UCLA 5, Wisconsin 4, Kentucky 4, Notre Dame 4, Arizona State 2, Colorado State 1, Oregon 1
Dropped Out: Georgia Tech 11, Utah 19
The big disparities between the CFRA Poll and the AP and Coaches Polls came in the ranking of Cincinnati (9th in our poll, 14 and 15 in AP/Coaches), TCU (10th in our poll, 15 and 14 in AP/Coaches), Kansas (15th in our poll, 20 and 19 in AP/Coaches), and Virginia Tech (16 in our poll, 11 and 12 in AP/Coaches), . The CFRA apparently loves their Bearcats and isn’t too fond of the Hokies, which is somewhat surprising considering that most of the poll’s voters are located in ACC country. I also found the amount of variety in this poll very interesting. These rankings had almost as many different teams receive votes as the AP poll (38 to 39), even though it have 53 less voters. As always, please let me know if you’d like to take part in the future CFRA weekly rankings.