NCAA College Football BCS Standings Week 11

NCAA College Football BCS Standings Week 11

The computers have now calculated that FSU is #1, but 'Bama remains solidly on top with the humans, and therefore narrowly hangs on to the top spot overall, in what has become a virtual 3-way tie between those two teams and Oregon.

I was wrong about Northern Illinois. Despite having stomped this week's opponent, they actually dropped from #17 to #18. They did pass Texas Tech, but other teams in turn leapfrogged them. They are the Rodney Dangerfield of college teams. No respect. (The computers rank them #14, but the humans rank them six spots lower.)

Texas A&M also dropped (3 places) despite a 50-point win that could have been 70 if they wanted it. The humans moved them up a bit, but the computers dropped them from #14 to #21, Tis' a mystery. I guess the moral of the story is this: don't try to play patsy teams at the end of the year because it will screw up your "strength of schedule" metric.

Biggest losers: Texas Tech dropped 10 spots and barely stayed on the list. Miami dropped 4 spots.

Big winners: Nothing massive. Michigan State rose from #22 to #17 by beating Michigan. Oklahoma State improved by four positions as a result of their convincing win against Texas Tech, which had entered the game #15.