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MRI Football 2004: Week 4 - Blowouts and Close ones

October 24, 2004  |  By Benjamin Miraski

Nine of the top 10 teams in the MRI won this week, some winning big. Still, USC managed to hold on to their top ranking and increase their lead over #2 Auburn based on their impressive blanking of Washington. Oklahoma's strong performance against Kansas moves them up to #3. The only loss among the top 10 was Purdue who lost a close one at home. For the second week in a row, a late fumble was the Boilermaker's undoing as they were once again driving for the go ahead score. As a result, most of the MRI Top 25 will look familiar this week.


And Now the Rankings

RANK
TEAM
RECORD
MRI
LW
1
USC
7-0
105.93
1
2
Auburn
8-0
97.08
2
3
Oklahoma
7-0
95.36
5
4
Utah
7-0
92.46
4
5
Florida State
6-1
85.44
3
6
Cal
5-1
84.52
6
7
Louisville
5-1
82.09
9
8
Arizona State
6-1
80.99
10
9
Miami
6-0
79.37
8
10
Texas
6-1
78.84
13
11
Texas A&M
6-1
78.44
12
12
Virginia
6-1
78.27
11
13
Georgia
6-1
70.81
17
14
Purdue
5-2
70.10
7
15
Boise State
7-0
70.01
19
16
Oklahoma State
6-1
69.78
15
17
Michigan
7-1
66.04
18
18
Wisconsin
8-0
63.28
20
19
Minnesota
6-2
61.27
NR(27)
20
Alabama
5-3
61.25
14
21
Tennessee
6-1
58.92
22
22
West Virginia
6-1
57.64
NR(29)
23
Texas Tech
4-3
56.61
16
24
Iowa
5-2
55.61
NR(28)
25
South Carolina
5-2
54.59
23

Teams Dropped From The Top 25:
Missouri (LW #21, TW #27), Notre Dame (LW #24, TW #29), Florida (LW #25, TW #31)

Other Teams People Might Care About

RANK
TEAM
RECORD
MRI
LW
29
Notre Dame
5-3
48.39
24
31
Florida
4-3
47.29
25
33
Northern Illinois
6-2
46.34
39
37
Michigan State
4-3
42.07
38
45
Ohio State
4-3
33.33
65
51
Pittsburgh
5-2
28.25
67
52
Georgia Tech
4-2
28.11
55
53
Northwestern
3-4
28.10
52
55
Miami(Ohio)
5-3
27.34
68
64
Maryland
3-4
23.37
59
69
Clemson
3-4
19.97
77
85
Vanderbilt
2-5
4.59
86
90
Indiana
2-5
0.29
83
98
Illinois
2-6
-8.29
89
111
Duke
1-6
-22.13
111

Last Place this week:  Buffalo (1-7) at -42.62. 3rd week in a row.

Biggest Gain this week: Cincinnati gained 12.85 points. (Beat Memphis)
Biggest Loss this week: Memphis lost -17.05 points. (Lost to Cincinnati)

Conference rankings this week:  Big 12, PAC-10, SEC, Big Ten, ACC, Mountain West, Big East, C-USA, WAC, MAC, SunBelt

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Posted October 24, 2004 4:00 PM