After starting out the season unranked, Georgetown has two shutout victories
over ranked teams in their back pocket.
Arkansas could technically finish the season with three straight wins
over ranked teams.
The Tigers would also need to score a win at Georgia Tech, and additionally meet with rival South Carolina in the season's final week, but could be undefeated and have six wins
over ranked teams by BCS Selection Sunday.
Given no other choice, voters placed unbeaten BYU, which had one win
over a ranked team (preseason No. 3 Pitt, which had plummeted to 3 -7-1), at No. 1.
Sugar Bowl: Florida vs. Louisville (Even though the Gators» resume would now be absent one of its wins
over a ranked team, boosting Georgia's case for the SEC's final BCS spot.)
Getting a blowout road win
over a ranked team is something the NCAA Tournament committee smiles upon.
A win
over a ranked team will help you more than a loss to a ranked team will hurt you.
Not exact matches
CNN: Mormon linebacker helps lead Catholic Notre Dame to national championship game It was a goal - line stand in the fourth quarter that sealed the University of Notre Dame football
team's Saturday victory
over the University of Southern California — and earned the No. 1 -
ranked team a trip to the national championship game.
The Tigers could have fallen apart after surrendering a 20 - 0 lead in an October loss to LSU, but instead rebounded with five straight wins — two
over No. 1
ranked teams (Georgia and Alabama)-- to run to the SEC Championship Game.
The only two games with
ranked teams losing: Penn State rolled
over Michigan in white - out conditions, and Notre Dame looks like a legitimate Playoff
team after destroying USC.
RT @GundysHat: I've looked at wins
over teams ranked in AP 25 and wins
over current BCS 25
teams.
But the beauty of the BlogPoll is that there are a lot of voters who genuinely care about merit, and, on the merits, Florida may have the nation's best résumé, given that the Gators have a win
over the highest -
ranked one - loss
team and are the only squad with two wins
over teams currently
ranked in the BlogPoll.
The Cyclones» 33 - 31 victory
over the host Sooners in 1990 played out in startlingly similar fashion: a
ranked OU went up 14 - 0 in the first quarter against an ISU
team dealing with a quarterback injury, then threw it into cruise too early.
Rankings ramifications: Louisville came into the night
ranked No. 19 and will move up a spot or two
over teams that lost despite being unimpressive.
They moved up a spot in the
Rankings this week as they got a very nice W
over Team Free Agent TWO.
The higher
ranked team has received the majority of bets
over 60 % of the time, which is actually a little lower than I expected.
Team UC Booth rises to # 4 in the Power
Rankings following their Week 15 Win
over Team Apuli.
Team Purimetla got a big time Win
over Team Jones on Sunday Night and jumped
over their opponent
Team Jones in the Power
Rankings as a result.
Missouri has a win
over a top - 10 Kansas and
ranked Illinois and Texas Tech
teams, who each beat a Playoff
team.
Now all they need is one true signature W
over a
Team ranked higher than them and their spot will be solidified.
Team McNichols maintains the top spot in the
Rankings after their 11 pt Win
over Team Jones.
They are up to # 2 this Week, their highest
Ranking of the season, after a dominating performance this past Thursday
over the former # 2
Team Massel.
This Week's
Rankings are going to take a dive into what is still in store for each
Team over the final 4 - Week stretch..
By the winning score of 79 - 70
over Team Jones,
Team Massie secured their third straight victory and moved into the # 7 spot in the Week 13 Power
Rankings.
With their Win on Sunday
over # 4
Team Sammy,
Team Theta Chi leapt into 2nd place in both the Standings and the Power
Rankings.
They got a big - time W
over Team Elisco 19 - 13 last Thursday and as a result hopped
over them in the
Rankings.
Following a 2 - 1 VBall W
over Team Gordon on Monday Night,
Team UM Alumni have now won in three straight weeks and have catapulted themselves into the # 2 spot of the
Rankings.
Joining the
ranks of several
teams to clean house Monday night,
Team Kirshner picked up a shutout win
over Team Silberstein.
They have Wins
over Team Zimmerman and
Team Maione and yet, they are still
ranked # 5.
Last
Team into the
Rankings this Week is
Team Sternberg following their big Softball W on Monday Night
over Team Mortier.
MODESTO CHRISTIAN (22 - 8) Some preseason
rankings have Crusaders as the top
team in the Sac - Joaquin Section
over Folsom.
They got a double - digit W
over Team James on Sunday Night and again moved up a spot in the
Rankings.
They utilized a decisive W
over last week's # 1
Team — Sigma Chi — in Softball to really climb the
Ranks after their first W of the campaign.
Some of the avid Power
Rankings readers might recall that
over the Summer I always like the chances of the
Team that I thought lost Week 1's best game..
Coaches, players and fans alike will be able to follow all the action
over the course of the season through regular association - generated columns,
team rankings, tournament announcements and social media posts.
With some luck, they could get some Losses from the
Teams Ranked ahead of them right now — as they hold tiebreakers
over KSig JR — and they could wind up in the Top - 3.
Virginia Tech has wins
over ranked BC, Clemson, and Virginia
teams and an ACC title bump.
When looking at the Weekly Results and Tiebreakers — more so for Power
Rankings than for potential Playoff Seeding (so many weeks to go...)-- the resumes of these
Teams do little to give one
Team the nod
over the other..
Last
Team into the
Rankings this week is
Team Apuli after their big come from behind W
over Team James in Week 5.
They have been bouncing between # 2 - 3 for the first 4 sets of the Power
Rankings and on Sunday Night they combined a dominating performance
over previously unbeaten
Team McNichols with great - timing (the other previously undefeated,
Team Maione, also went down on Sunday) and just like that
Team Lalez comes in at # 1 for the first time.
Team Sig Chi sealed the deal to be
Ranked # 1 after not only getting a big time W but they also were the only
Team to score
over 80 points and the margin of victory was 50 +.
The Kansas St. Wildcats have moved up to No. 3 in this week's edition of the Harris Interactive College Football Poll after a series of highly -
ranked teams lost
over the weekend.
Willie's dunk punctuated an 80 - 63 home win
over a
ranked Alabama
team in the 81 - 82 season.
The Badgers are up to fifth in the CFP
rankings, and considering No. 2 Clemson and No. 3 Miami will face each other, they would absolutely hop the loser of that game, especially with wins
over two well - regarded
teams (a No. 24 Michigan that'd only fall slightly outside the
rankings, then probably No. 9 Ohio State in the Big Ten title game) down the stretch.
I will never not support the use of unorthodox methodologies to fill out BlogPoll ballots (the only guideline is picking the best 25
teams each week), but this one seems kind of silly to me:
ranking Ohio State No. 1 based on wins
over FBS
teams without considering that the Buckeyes have beaten a lot of bad ones (best win: Nebraska at home?)
«Not bad for a
team picked 13th,» Tennessee coach Rick Barnes said to a raucous sellout crowd Saturday as the 16th -
ranked Volunteers prepared to cut down the nets after their 66 - 61 victory
over Georgia.
UNC played 5
ranked teams Trubisky's last year starting (Georgia, Stanford, Va Tech, Miami, FSU) and Wyoming played only 2
over Allen's 2 seasons of starting (Boise and San Diego State).
Maybe it wasn't wrong that Kentucky was a No. 8 seed, even though the Cats started the tournament
ranked No. 17 on Ken Pomeroy's efficiency index and had wins
over defending champion Louisville and a good Tennessee
team.
West Virginia, 14 - 2 and
ranked No. 21 after its 98 - 84 victory
over the
team with the best field goal percentage defense in the country, got noticed.
They have zero losses to
teams outside the top 40 in the current RPI, they have multiple wins
over a (for the moment)
ranked Kentucky
team, and they're riding a six - game winning streak despite the SEC being stronger in the middle than it's been in years.