Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Final AP Poll released, and GameDay doesn't like scarlet and grey

The Associated Press released its final poll this morning, and like the BCS, crowned Auburn its champion.  However, a couple anomalies stand out.

Oregon, who qualified for the BCS Championship game over TCU, dropped to #3, despite losing only on a last second field goal on a neutral field to Auburn.  Undefeated TCU beat Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl, and some voters are harboring a grudge (not without merit) that they were shut out of a chance at the National Championship.

Despite that--I feel that if you are in the championship game, you're either first or second place.  No exceptions.  Lose 63-0, you're still #2.  (Incidentally, one college coach voted for TCU in the BCS voting--which is contractually against the rules for coaches.)

I took a look at the fabulous website Pollspeak.com for some of this....check it out if you ever are interested in how specific AP voters voted.

Ohio State finished 5th in the poll...which is two spots above Wisconsin.  I think most Buckeye fans would feel that Ohio State would beat Wisconsin on a neutral field, but at this point, the head to head results on the field must show through.  I'd have voted Wisconsin over Ohio State by one spot. Just like Doug Lesmirises did.  And Kirk Herbstreit,who incidentally ranked Ohio State #9, which was the lowest that anyone ranked the Buckeyes.

The only other voter to rank Ohio State that low was Chris Fowler.  Who somehow ranked Boise State above Ohio State, despite their loss to Nevada, and Ohio State's only loss being on the road to Big Ten Champion Wisconsin, and their BCS victory over Arkansas.  (Very curiously, no voter voted Boise State higher, nor Nevada lower.)

Wonder what it was that made two GameDay announcers vote Ohio State so low?  Was it the vendetta Herbstreit has against Terrelle Pryor?

Complete AP poll after the jump.

AP Top 25
RKTEAMRECORDPTSPVS
1Auburn (56)14-014721
2TCU (3)13-013923
3Oregon12-113792
4Stanford12-113005
5Ohio State12-112206
6Oklahoma12-211089
7Wisconsin11-210554
8LSU11-2105111
9Boise State12-1103110
10Alabama10-396115
11Nevada13-186613
12Arkansas10-38638
13Oklahoma State11-283316
14Michigan State11-26967
15Mississippi State9-457821
16Virginia Tech11-357712
17Florida State10-450223
18Missouri10-347714
19Texas A&M9-435918
20Nebraska10-433417
21UCF11-3225NR
22South Carolina9-516919
23Maryland9-4144NR
24Tulsa10-3128NR
25North Carolina State9-4119NR



























































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