Bowl Championship Series Week Three Standings
For the third time in as many weeks, Florida reign supreme atop Bowl Championship Series Standings. The Gators (who have been topping all the polls since the preseason) have a solid lead over the new second ranked team in the nation, the Texas Longhorns. The win over Oklahoma State -- probably Texas' last hurdle until the Big XXII title game -- catapulted Colt McCoy's squad over an idle Alabama for the number two slot. The swap of places has done nothing to under-hype the projected match-up between the Gators and the Crimson Tide in the SEC championship game; a confrontation that now seems likely to produce one half of the BCS Championship Game paring.
Iowa, which barely escaped a mediocre Indiana team at home, sits still at number four. The Hawkeyes are followed by Cincinnati, TCU, Boise State and Oregon. The Ducks, flying high after upsetting USC on Halloween night, had a clear path to the Rose Bowl; something first year head coach Chip Kelly surely could not have dreamed of after his team stumbled badly against Boise on opening day.
Unlike the last two editions, only a handful of teams took a plunge in the Standings this week. Virginia Tech's once promising season is now a pipe dream after losing to North Carolina at home Thursday night. The loss dropped the Hokies from 13th to 23rd. The other loser of the week was Oklahoma State -- once viewed by many as the top challenger to the Longhorn's BCS position -- fell from 14th to 19th. The biggest stumble of them all was taken by the Trojans. USC was sitting pretty at five before an uninspired performance at Eugene dropped them to twelve and out of the race for both the National Championship and the Rose Bowl.
Three new teams joined the Standings this week: Oklahoma, Wisconsin and South Florida are all ranked in the bottom part of the polls. The computers must not have been too impressed by Notre Dame's trashing of undermanned Washington State, because the Irish only rose one spot (23 to 22).
Here is a look at the complete BCS Standing for November 1st 2009.
1. Florida (8-0) .9918
2. Texas (8-0) .9227
3. Alabama (8-0) .9166
4. Iowa (9-0) .8407
5. Cincinnati (8-0) .8033
6. TCU (8-0) .8008
7. Boise State (8-0) .7863
8. Oregon (7-1) .7651
9. LSU (7-1) .7121
10. Georgia Tech (8-1) .6287
11. Penn State (8-1) .6166
12. USC (6-2) .5336
13. Pittsburgh (7-1) .4401
14. Utah (7-1) .4226
15. Houston (7-1) .4209
16. Ohio State (7-2) .3784
17. Miami, Fla.(6-2) .3707
18. Arizona (5-2) .2589
19. Oklahoma State (6-2) .2179
20. California (6-2) .2095
21. Wisconsin (6-2) .1939
22. Notre Dame (6-2) .1903
23. Virginia Tech (5-3) .1559
24. Oklahoma (5-3) .1494
25. South Florida (6-2)
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