Ratings Final 01
Miami's clearly number 1, so just like last year the undefeated team wins it all. No problem, right? Except that just like last year we're all upset because the "right team" didn't play for the title. At this point, it seems "obvious" that Oregon would have been better competition than Nebraska, so everyone is proposing to change the BCS again to something that would have produced Oregon as the challenger. Here's one idea: the old bowl set-up was flawed because we couldn't always get #1 versus #2, either because of conference champs being committed to different bowls or because the bowls chose TV ratings (i.e., Notre Dame) over quality teams. So why not just let the polls decide? Scrap everything in the BCS except the two polls, with maybe the computer averages as a tie-breaker. By the way, my computer still doesn't like Oregon that much. Should Florida be #2? The Vegas folks said that Florida would have had the shortest odds as Rose Bowl fodder for Miami.
The Big East (surprise!) had the best conference bowl record at 4-1. The MAC was 2-0, the ACC 4-2 and the SEC 5-3. The Big 10 struggled at 2-4, the Big 12 was 3-5 and the Pac 10 2-3. This caused a lot of shuffling of the rankings of those who played and those who didn't play bowl games.
1 | Miami | 74.98 |
2 | Florida | 69.85 |
3 | Tennessee | 66.28 |
4 | Oregon | 65.44 |
5 | Nebraska | 65.21 |
6 | Texas | 65.18 |
7 | Oklahoma | 62.51 |
8 | Washington State | 62.09 |
9 | Colorado | 61.51 |
10 | LSU | 60.93 |
11 | Illinois | 59.92 |
12 | Syracuse | 59.69 |
13 | Stanford | 59.59 |
14 | Florida State | 59.21 |
15 | Maryland | 59.00 |
16 | UCLA | 58.40 |
17 | Michigan | 57.77 |
18 | South Carolina | 57.50 |
19 | Virginia Tech | 56.53 |
20 | BYU | 56.41 |
21 | Washington | 55.39 |
22 | Fresno State | 55.39 |
23 | Kansas State | 55.19 |
24 | Georgia | 55.03 |
25 | Iowa | 54.47 |
26 | Boston College | 54.43 |
27 | Alabama | 54.36 |
28 | North Carolina | 54.30 |
29 | Texas Tech | 53.53 |
30 | Louisville | 53.30 |
31 | Southern Cal | 53.23 |
32 | Georgia Tech | 52.99 |
33 | Arkansas | 52.96 |
34 | Utah | 52.77 |
35 | Ohio State | 52.77 |
36 | Texas A&M | 52.36 |
37 | Auburn | 51.95 |
38 | Michigan State | 51.50 |
39 | Marshall | 50.51 |
40 | Notre Dame | 50.35 |
41 | NC State | 50.26 |
42 | Iowa State | 50.26 |
43 | Penn State | 50.22 |
44 | Pittsburgh | 50.16 |
45 | Clemson | 49.24 |
46 | Indiana | 49.23 |
47 | Ole Miss | 49.18 |
48 | Hawaii | 49.08 |
49 | Bowling Green | 49.05 |
50 | Purdue | 48.87 |
51 | Toledo | 47.84 |
52 | Oregon State | 47.75 |
53 | Boise State | 47.30 |
54 | Colorado State | 47.18 |
55 | Wisconsin | 47.11 |
56 | Arizona State | 45.80 |
57 | Wake Forest | 45.68 |
58 | Southern Miss | 44.60 |
59 | Miami | 44.11 |
60 | Central Florida | 44.07 |
61 | East Carolina | 43.96 |
62 | Arizona | 43.93 |
63 | New Mexico | 43.72 |
64 | Oklahoma State | 43.57 |
65 | South Florida | 43.53 |
66 | Mississippi State | 43.37 |
67 | Minnesota | 42.98 |
68 | Louisiana Tech | 42.84 |
69 | Virginia | 42.83 |
70 | Northwestern | 42.40 |
71 | West Virginia | 42.33 |
72 | Missouri | 42.12 |
73 | Middle Tennessee | 41.66 |
74 | UAB | 41.12 |
75 | Rice | 41.08 |
76 | Kentucky | 40.47 |
77 | Troy State | 40.41 |
78 | UNLV | 40.37 |
79 | Air Force | 40.31 |
80 | Northern Illinois | 40.17 |
81 | Cincinnati | 40.09 |
82 | Memphis | 39.92 |
83 | TCU | 39.18 |
84 | Western Michigan | 38.46 |
85 | Kent State | 38.44 |
86 | Temple | 38.39 |
87 | Kansas | 37.87 |
88 | Baylor | 35.92 |
89 | Utah State | 35.46 |
90 | California | 35.26 |
91 | SMU | 34.58 |
92 | Vanderbilt | 34.37 |
93 | Akron | 34.05 |
94 | North Texas | 33.92 |
95 | San Diego State | 33.64 |
96 | Ball State | 33.31 |
97 | San Jose State | 32.51 |
98 | Nevada | 32.07 |
99 | New Mexico State | 31.11 |
100 | Ohio | 31.07 |
101 | Tulane | 29.96 |
102 | Wyoming | 29.14 |
103 | Central Michigan | 27.91 |
104 | Duke | 26.16 |
105 | Army | 25.95 |
106 | Rutgers | 25.84 |
107 | Buffalo | 24.98 |
108 | UTEP | 24.09 |
109 | Houston | 23.65 |
110 | Tulsa | 23.10 |
111 | La-Lafayette | 22.57 |
112 | Navy | 22.27 |
113 | Connecticut | 20.41 |
114 | Eastern Michigan | 19.86 |
115 | La-Monroe | 19.59 |
116 | Idaho | 19.48 |
117 | Arkansas State | 17.50 |