Occasional musings too long to fit in my facebook status updates

Sunday, October 21, 2007

overrated/underrated college football teams #2

(with AP rating/BCS computer ranking in parentheses)

overrated b/c they haven't beaten top teams
Oregon (5/9)
West Virginia (6/10)
Oklahoma (4/14)
USC (9/21)
Hawaii (16/unrated) - 29 teams received a share of the computer "vote" and Hawaii wasn't one of them
Texas (17/unrated) nor was Texas
Cal (18/27)

underrated b/c they're not normally a football power and/or they started off low
S. Florida (11/5) - an undeserving 12th in the coaches'/Harris polls - only LSU has beaten more ranked teams
UVa (21/6)
UConn (29/17)
Wake Forest (28/18)

underrated due to a tough schedule
Auburn (23/16)

underrated b/c, apparently, being undefeated means more to the computers
Arizona St. (7/3)
Kansas (12/7)
I'm not sure how much I can agree with the computers here since neither team has even played (yet alone beaten) a team currently in the Top 25

The fact that point differential is not taken into account by the computers also hurts Oregon (who killed Michigan and barely lost to Cal) and helps UVa (who's won the last three games by a combined 4 points) quite a bit.

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