Week 11 Polls & Ratings: AP #15, Coaches #15

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MaizeNBlueTexan

November 8th, 2015 at 2:13 PM ^

Memphis and FSU lost and were only ranked within 4 or less of Michigan. 

Michigan covered the spread and beat Rutgers like they needed to.

Moving up anything more than 2 spots would have been a pleasant surprise.

Still have 3 weeks of guaranteed games to keep slowly moving up the rankings.

michiganman001

November 8th, 2015 at 2:18 PM ^

Florida's resume hangs largely on a 38-10 beating of Ole Miss and while Ole Miss is 7-3, they clearly arent the team everyone thought they were in September. I wonder if that, along with their lackluster performance yesterday will drop them to maybe 12,13.

Rodriguesqe

November 8th, 2015 at 2:44 PM ^

I just looked at the schedule for the top 25 for the rest of the regular season. Not considering championship games.

Before considering whether we'd leap frog OSU, if we win out I see 5-6 teams in front of us who have a good chance of falling behind us.  So I would guess winning out would put us at #8 or 9 in the country going into championship week.

A couple of things to watch:

1) Would the committee take 2 SEC teams? LSU has one tough game left in Ole miss. Their only loss would be @Alabama, but it wasn't a very competitive loss. They'd have a few top #25 wins, but no huge wins. Michigan has a chance to close the year with likely 2 top #5 wins, so I think we'd matchup favorably with LSU if we win the B1G championship game against Iowa.

2) Pac 10 / Big 12 / ND. This thing could shake out where three of that group could have a better case the UM, or none. Two many scenarios to discuss just yet. At this point I think I'm writing in Clemson and Alabama for two spots. I think even at 11-2 there are scenarios where Michigan would be left out, but likeliest would be we'd get in.

I know two things for damn sure, we want Iowa to be undefeated going into the B1G championship and OSU to beat Sparty.