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MRI Football 2005: Week 11 - Regular Season Finale

December 4, 2005  |  By Benjamin Miraski

Any chance of a team sneaking into the Rose Bowl was squashed yesterday. Texas decided that it didn't beat Colorado badly enough the first time around. This time, they rolled up 70 points. Mack Brown said that he didn't want to leave anything to chance before the game started and that was surely the case. With the crushing win, Texas remains the #1 team in the MRI this week. Texas will need an opponent in the Rose Bowl, and was it ever going to be anyone but USC? The Trojans went out and earned the biggest gain in the MRI this week with a solid victory over rival UCLA. #2 in the MRI and most likely #1 in the BCS will give USC a short bus trip to Pasadena for a chance to win the big crown for a third year in a row.

Virginia Tech stumbled against Florida State, then seemed to right themselves, and finally came up just a little short. The Hokies lost their shot at a BCS game by blowing the inaugural ACC championship game. Instead, they are most likely headed back to Florida to have a shot in the Gator Bowl against Louisville. They still stayed at #3 in the MRI though.

The Big Ten wraps up the rest of the Top 5 this week. Penn State waits to hear which BCS bowl they are headed to while Ohio State waits to see if they have earned one of the two wild card choices. Check out all the rankings in the regular season finale of the MRI.

And Now the Rankings

RANK
TEAM
RECORD
MRI
LW
1
Texas
12-0
151.29
1
2
USC
12-0
138.69
2
3
Virginia Tech
10-2
116.04
3
4
Penn State
10-1
106.13
4
5
Ohio State
9-2
100.06
5
6
Miami
9-2
90.76
6
7
Georgia
10-2
88.21
11
8
Alabama
9-2
86.78
7
9
Louisville
9-2
85.29
8
10
Auburn
9-2
83.28
10
11
TCU
10-1
82.76
9
12
Notre Dame
9-2
80.46
12
13
Florida
8-3
78.78
14
14
Texas Tech
9-2
78.30
13
15
West Virginia
10-1
78.07
15
16
Oregon
10-1
71.73
16
17
Boston College
8-3
68.14
17
18
Minnesota
7-4
66.88
18
19
Michigan
7-4
62.14
21
20
Oklahoma
7-4
61.71
22
21
LSU
10-2
60.50
19
22
Tulsa
8-4
59.97
NR(30)
23
Iowa
7-4
58.52
23
24
Fresno State
8-4
58.30
20
25
Iowa State
7-4
57.66
24

Teams Dropped From The Top 25: Boise State (LW #25, TW #26)

Other Teams People Might Care About

RANK
TEAM
RECORD
MRI
LW
27
Georgia Tech
7-4
52.98
26
28
Clemson
7-4
52.35
31
31
Miami(Ohio)
7-4
49.59
32
35
Northern Illinois
7-5
45.38
34
36
Florida State
8-4
45.24
38
39
Northwestern
7-4
41.03
40
40
UCLA
9-2
40.29
35
41
Michigan State
5-6
40.20
41
45
Nebraska
7-4
36.75
45
47
Purdue
5-6
34.85
47
50
Tennessee
5-6
33.87
50
60
Maryland
5-6
30.35
59
65
Washington State
4-7
27.08
66
66
Pittsburgh
5-6
25.46
68
67
Texas A&M
5-6
24.11
71
75
Vanderbilt
5-6
17.45
74
95
Indiana
4-7
-10.23
95
112
Illinois
2-9
-37.23
112
115
Duke
1-10
-43.39
114

Last Place this week: Temple (0-11) at -67.58. 7th week in a row.

Biggest Gain this week: USC gained 17.17 points. (Beat UCLA)
Biggest Loss this week: UCLA lost 7.34 points. (Lost to USC)

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

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Posted December 4, 2005 11:29 AM