Ramblings from the Ultimate Sports Sentimentalist » Top 25 http://sportsentiment.com "Outside the Box" commentary about the sporting world Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:05:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Week 3 CFRA Rankings http://sportsentiment.com/2009/09/20/week-3-cfra-rankings/ http://sportsentiment.com/2009/09/20/week-3-cfra-rankings/#comments Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:35:01 +0000 deaconcat08 http://deaconcat08.sportsblognet.com/?p=100 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.

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