Latest AP and USA Today Poll
Baylor jumps Ohio in the AP and stays 4th behind them in USA Today.
AP Top 25
1 Alabama (55) 10-0 1495
2 Florida State (5) 10-0 1445
3 Baylor 9-0 1351
4 Ohio State 10-0 1343
5 Oregon 9-1 1210
6 Auburn 10-1 1205
7 Clemson 9-1 1115
8 Missouri 9-1 1067
9 Texas A&M 8-2 956
10 Stanford 8-2 899
11 Oklahoma State 9-1 889
12 South Carolina 8-2 870
13 Michigan State 9-1 749
14 UCLA 8-2 710
15 Fresno State 9-0 572
16 Wisconsin 8-2 559
17 UCF 8-1 535
18 LSU 7-3 439
19 Arizona State 8-2 430
20 Northern Illinois 10-0 426
21 Louisville 9-1 412
22 Oklahoma 8-2 318
23 USC 8-3 187
24 Ole Miss 7-3 119
25 Duke 8-2 94
USA Today
1 Alabama (56) 10-0 1544
2 Florida State (6) 10-0 1487
3 Ohio State 10-0 1404
4 Baylor 9-0 1386
5 Oregon 9-1 1231
6 Clemson 9-1 1217
7 Auburn 10-1 1145
8 Missouri 9-1 1129
9 Oklahoma State 9-1 1030
10 Texas A&M 8-2 928
11 South Carolina 8-2 882
12 Stanford 8-2 865
13 Michigan State 9-1 729
14 UCLA 8-2 700
15 Louisville 9-1 627
16 Fresno State 9-0 622
17 Wisconsin 8-2 511
18 Oklahoma 8-2 502
19 LSU 7-3 478
20 UCF 8-1 446
21 Northern Illinois 10-0 418
22 Arizona State 8-2 352
23 Minnesota 8-2 173
24 Duke 8-2 131
25 USC 8-3 115
November 17th, 2013 at 10:31 PM ^
November 17th, 2013 at 3:15 PM ^
South Carolin lingering up there is ridiculous.
November 17th, 2013 at 3:47 PM ^
I have a problem with Baylor being ranked that high - I don't think there is a single team in the Big 12 that is good enough on defense to really say that Baylor is #3. Sure, they manage to outscore mediocre opponents, but when faced with a talented defense, of which is there is none in the Big 12, I don't think they'll score nearly as much.
The fact that Stanford lost to a bad Utah team and a very mediocre USC team definitively does not merit a #10 ranking even if they beat Oregon. USC got dominated by Notre Dame even after Kiffin was fired... That's not good.
November 17th, 2013 at 4:09 PM ^
USC did not get dominated by ND at all. They very nearly beat ND.
Oklaoma has a pretty good defense. If they didn't they wouldn't be 8-2 as their offense has major issues. Ok St. also has a decent defense.
You can use the same argument against Ohio State in that they have not faced anyone with a good offense really other than Wisconsin and yet they have been lit up by awful teams like Illinois and Cal. The quakity of Big10 offenses is much worse than quality of Big12 defenses.
November 17th, 2013 at 6:19 PM ^
As for Oklahoma... When you play teams like Iowa State who is Purdue level awful and Kansas, who is Illinois level awful, or even Kansas State and Texas (who they were slaughtered by) of course your stats are going to look mediocre. The record doesn't mean anything as to how good a team is on offense/defense.
As for Ohio, yes, they do have a bad defense. They,like Baylor, don't have a good enough SOS to merit top 5, in my opinion.
November 17th, 2013 at 8:54 PM ^
The game was decided at the half?? That is just a stupid statement. Nothing else that can really be said about. ND wins 14-10 and they dominated?? What are you smoking?
November 17th, 2013 at 4:00 PM ^
November 17th, 2013 at 4:22 PM ^
November 17th, 2013 at 5:26 PM ^
OSU will get jumped by Baylor in the BCS and it should. They have played nobody and really don't look that impressive. I say they finish with 2 losses.
November 17th, 2013 at 6:14 PM ^
You're saying they'll finish 10-2? You're saying they'll lose to Indiana in the 'shoe next Saturday?
I find a Hoosier win in Columbus (which would be their second win there since 1951) *extremely* unlikely.
November 17th, 2013 at 8:27 PM ^
tOSU or Baylor? Your sentence describes both.
http://espn.go.com/college-football/team/_/id/239/baylor-bears
http://espn.go.com/college-football/team/_/id/194/ohio-state-buckeyes
November 17th, 2013 at 5:52 PM ^
I'm just glad Stanford won't be rated ahead of Baylor with one loss. That was a travesty.
November 17th, 2013 at 7:27 PM ^
double post
November 17th, 2013 at 7:59 PM ^
November 17th, 2013 at 8:58 PM ^
OSU is barely ahead of Baylor and if both win out Baylor will jump them. @ OK St. and vs Texas will be a lot more impressive both in the human polls and the computers than Indiana, us and MSU (who the computers still are not all that in love with and as you can see from the polls there is a massive gap between MSU at 13 and S.Carolina at 12.)