Michigan #16 in USA Today Poll, #18 in AP
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/ncaaf/polls/
And NW only dropped to 18, which seems right.
1. Alabama
2. Oregon
3. Clemson
3. Ohio
5. Stanford
6. FSU
7. Georgia
8. Louisville
9. Texas A&M
10. Oklahoma
11. LSU
12. South Carolina
13. UCLA
14. Miami
15. Baylor
16. Michigan
17. Florida
18. Northwestern
19. Washington
20. Oklahoma St.
21. Texas Tech
22. Fresno State
23. Northern Illinois
24. Nebraska
25. Virginia Tech
The AP Poll has Michigan at #18 and NW dropping to #19.
http://collegefootball.ap.org/poll
1. Alabama
2. Oregon
3. Clemson
4. Ohio
5. Stanford
6. FSU
7. Georgia
8. Louisville
9. Texas A&M
10. LSU
11. UCLA
12. Oklahoma
13. Miami
14. South Carolina
15. Baylor
16. Washington
17. Florida
18. Michigan
19. Northwestern
20. Texas Tech
21. Fresno State
22. Oklahoma St.
23. Northern Illinois
24. Virginia Tech
25. Missouri
October 6th, 2013 at 12:57 PM ^
October 6th, 2013 at 9:44 PM ^
Laying in the weeds
October 6th, 2013 at 12:46 PM ^
October 6th, 2013 at 12:48 PM ^
Next Sunday, October 13th.
October 6th, 2013 at 12:51 PM ^
Sounds about right where we should be. Also, I'm glad to see Northwestern got some respect from the pollsters and only got dropped two spots. Sure, they couldn't contain Carlos Hyde, but they made that "vaunted" OSU secondary look like a bunch of JV scrubs. They could go undefeated the rest of the way, but unless they win the BTCG, I doubt they'd get much traction for a BCS bowl bid.
October 6th, 2013 at 12:53 PM ^
I don't think we should complain about our ranking. We have a lot left to prove and this will motivate us to do so.
October 6th, 2013 at 12:58 PM ^
I don't really care where we are, but it's kind of stupid that there are 6 one loss teams ahead of us. 5 of them are SEC teams. If the rankings are going to be based solely on opinion rather than record then we might as well rank the teams, skip the season, and go straight to the championship game.
October 6th, 2013 at 1:04 PM ^
First and foremost, Drew Sharp did do Michigan the honor of ranking us #24.
The entire distribution for this poll:
13th - 2 votes
14th - 4 votes
15th - 6 votes
16th - 7 votes
17th - 17 votes
18th - 8 votes
19th - 4 votes
20th - 6 votes
21st - 2 votes
22nd - 2 votes
23rd - 1 vote
24th - 1 vote
unranked - 1 vote
The average rank between all the votes that Michigan has received is now 15.97, and the median and mode are still 16 for our rank. The average net change in position is now -1.08 places.
October 6th, 2013 at 5:53 PM ^
Wow. Who voted them outside the Top 25?
October 6th, 2013 at 11:58 PM ^
It was probably Phillip Fulmer.
October 6th, 2013 at 1:24 PM ^
The encouraging thing is that we had a clean looking win without a lot of drama. The offense was 5-5 in the red zone, and though it wasn't flashy, it put up a lot of points.
As a confidence builder for the offense, it was a good day.
The team still doesn't look dominating, so the ranking seems ok.
October 6th, 2013 at 1:40 PM ^
October 6th, 2013 at 2:23 PM ^
I think the AP Poll looks more like what I think is a fair ranking. There are still major issues with our d-line. We got shredded by their QB and RB - wouldn't expect this for a position group that was hyped to be a strength of this team. Seeing O-Line make a major jump (imo) was reassuring.
October 6th, 2013 at 3:32 PM ^
Hoke has something planned for the tougher teams. We saw a little in the second half with the changes that limited Minnesota. IMHO, they don't want to put anything on film that will tip their hand.
Bo practiced something every week for the Ohio game. Hoke is doing it too.
October 6th, 2013 at 11:20 PM ^
October 7th, 2013 at 12:03 AM ^
We were shredded for 3 yards per carry.
October 7th, 2013 at 9:46 AM ^
October 6th, 2013 at 5:10 PM ^
mean little at this point, honestly, will you give a shit at the end of the season if we were ranked #19 or #10 in week 6 of the CFB season? I won't, all I will care about honestly is if we won our division. Just keep winning and don't worry about the dumb rankings. We have not looked real great the past few weeks. This week was somewhat better, but we sure as hell don't look like a top 10 team. Just keep grinding...GO BLUE!
October 6th, 2013 at 5:45 PM ^
October 6th, 2013 at 8:46 PM ^
#16 seems appropriate to me. I'm not sure that South Carolina is a better team than we are. At the risk of redundancy, I agree with everyone about the meaningless-ness of midseason polls. Without looking, do you know what we were ranked after week 6 last year (possibly unranked, actually)? Just win the games, capture the division crown, win the Big Ten championship and let the polls, bowls, etc. sort themselves out.
October 6th, 2013 at 8:48 PM ^
Well, I for one hope we keep winning and stay under the radar. We always seem to do better when that's the case.