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[SlowwHand]

Who the Hell would put Oklahoma ahead of the team that beat them?

[Imran Siddiqui]

Who the Hell would put Texas ahead of the team that beat them

[Imran Siddiqui]

Harris poll is out:

1 Alabama (108) 11-0 2,839
2 Florida (3) 10-1 2,644
3 Oklahoma (2) 10-1 2,598
4 Texas 10-1 2,577
5 USC 9-1 2,387
6 Penn State 11-1 2,187
7 Texas Tech 10-1 2,118
8 Utah (1) 12-0 2,113
9 Boise State 11-0 1,901
10 Ohio State 10-2 1,827
11 Missouri 9-2 1,622
12 Oklahoma State 9-2 1,621
13 Georgia 9-2 1,607
14 Ball State 11-0 1,346
15 TCU 10-2 1,268
16 Cincinnati 9-2 1,101
17 Oregon State 8-3 976
18 BYU 10-2 761
19 Oregon 8-3 584
20 Boston College 8-3 537
21 Michigan State 9-3 517
22 Georgia Tech 8-3 415
23 Florida State 8-3 401
24 Northwestern 9-3 330
25 Pittsburgh 7-3 130

Seems the same as the AP at the top.

[SlowwHand]

Retards.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Who the Hell would put Texas ahead of the team that beat them

[SlowwHand]

Texas beat Oklahoma, nimrod.

[Guynemer]

It just drives me batty that USC is ahead of Utah.

Utah is undefeated, and beat Oregon State, the Pac-10 frontrunner and the only team to beat the Trojans.

[Guynemer]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Texas beat Oklahoma, nimrod.

And Imran is saying, by that logic, one shouldn't put Texas ahead of Texas Tech.

There's no good solution in this situation, but the fact that Tech was absolutely demolished makes it easier to put them at the back end of the three.

However, using that logic, Oklahoma ahead of Texas still doesn't square.

[SlowwHand]

I didn't say they should put Texas ahaead of Oklahoma.
I did say that Tech screwed up the whole Big 12.

Damn dumbasses. Tech, that is. Anyway, Big 12 still rules.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Texas beat Oklahoma, nimrod.

Texas Tech beat Texas, nimrod.

[SlowwHand]

Like I said, they screwed the Big 12. Don't talk to me anymore today.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Guynemer
And Imran is saying, by that logic, one shouldn't put Texas ahead of Texas Tech.

There's no good solution in this situation, but the fact that Tech was absolutely demolished makes it easier to put them at the back end of the three.

However, using that logic, Oklahoma ahead of Texas still doesn't square.

In a three way tie, I prefer to use scoring margin to determine the ranking.

Texas beat Oklahoma in a neutral field 45-35 (Texas +10, Oklahoma -10)

Texas Tech beat Texas at Lubbock 39-33 (Texas Tech +6, Texas -6)

Oklahoma beat Texas Tech at Norman 65-21 (Oklahoma +44, Texas Tech -44)

Now one may say, wait, Texas won at neutral field. That's true, so why don't we add a 10 point minus for winning at home field (in betting it is usually a 3 point credit, so we are penalizing a bit more).

That makes it:

Oklahoma +24
Texas +14
Texas Tech -48

[DaShi]

Did Harvard or Yale win?

[reismark]

That's a *highly* arbitrary way of quantifying the difference between home field and neutral field. Why shouldn't neutral field be worth 20 points or even 30?

Thankfully (and ironically) the computers are there to save the idiot pollsters from themselves.

[Naked Gents Rut]

Good call on the Oklahoma-Texas Tech game, Sloww.

1. USC
2. Florida
3. Penn State
4. Texas
5. Oklahoma
6. Texas Tech
7. Missouri
8. Alabama
9. Ohio State
10. Iowa