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MRI Football 2006 - Rankings Week 3

October 9, 2006  |  By Benjamin Miraski

Michigan Celebrates another week on top of the MRI (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)Michigan has had a history of letting down after a couple of big wins, especially when things were just starting to look good. Michigan State also had a history of being that team that Michigan let down against. Not this season. Michigan did what it needed to do to remain undefeated, taking down the Spartans, 31-13. The win keeps the Wolverines rolling the MRI, although their lead is not as large as it was last week.

Instead, USC remarkably gained ground, despite having a very close game against the surprising Washington Huskies. The now 4-2 Huskies gave USC everything they could handle, including a last minute drive, that without some very serious clock management problems, could have had Washington tying the game, or even winning. Another thing to keep in mind with USC, is that three of the teams they have beaten all won this week, in some very important games.

One of those games was Arkansas vs. Auburn, a very important game in the SEC West, and one involving the previously #5 team in the MRI. Auburn's loss dropped them from the Top 5, all the way to #12. The other SEC team formerly of the Top 5 was LSU, who faced the #4 Florida Gators in Gainesville. Florida used the home field, and quarterback Tim Tebow, to their advantage, coming out with the win, 23-10. The loss by LSU dropped them to #8 in the MRI.

Coming up to #3 is Ohio State, who beat MAC opponent Bowling Green soundly. Florida stays at #4 with their victory over LSU. Moving up into the #5 spot this week is Louisville, who had a big win over Middle Tennessee State on Friday night.

And Now the Rankings

RANK
TEAM
RECORD
MRI
LW
1
Michigan Helmet
Michigan
6-0
92.78
1
2
USC Helmet
USC
5-0
83.58
2
3
Ohio State Helmet
Ohio State
6-0
81.82
6
4
Florida Helmet
Florida
6-0
78.14
4
5
Louisville Helmet
Louisville
5-0
73.81
7
6
Clemson Helmet
Clemson
5-1
71.28
8
7
Texas Helmet
Texas
5-1
70.32
11
8
LSU Helmet
LSU
4-2
69.89
3
9
Missouri Helmet
Missouri
6-0
66.93
9
10
Boise State Helmet
Boise State
6-0
66.90
10
11
West Virginia
5-0
66.67
12
12
Auburn
5-1
61.31
5
13
Tennessee
5-1
59.44
17
14
Cal
5-1
58.39
23
15
Wisconsin
5-1
56.34
21
16
Pittsburgh
5-1
54.89
19
17
Rutgers
5-0
54.59
15
18
UCLA
4-1
53.79
16
19
Nebraska
5-1
52.42
20
20
Oklahoma
3-2
49.35
13
21
Texas A&M
5-1
49.15
25
22
Georgia Tech
5-1
48.64
NR(26)
23
Tulsa
4-1
47.85
NR(33)
24
Notre Dame
5-1
46.73
NR(30)
25
Alabama
4-2
46.05
NR(28)

Teams Dropped From The Top 25: Oregon (LW #14, TW #27), Georgia (LW #18, TW #28), Oklahoma State (LW #22, TW #34), Wake Forest (LW #24, TW #36)

Other Teams People Might Care About

RANK
TEAM
RECORD
MRI
LW
30
Washington State
4-2
42.79
37
31
Iowa
5-1
42.54
40
42
Miami
3-2
36.11
50
44
Michigan State
3-3
35.63
39
45
Florida State
3-2
35.39
32
49
Boston College
4-1
31.48
49
54
Northern Illinois
4-2
28.21
56
60
Purdue
4-2
22.34
48
67
Vanderbilt
2-4
19.24
70
78
Maryland
3-2
13.32
72
80
Illinois
2-4
12.38
78
88
Indiana
3-3
6.70
93
104
Miami(Ohio)
0-6
-11.53
107
106
Northwestern
2-4
-12.98
102
115
Duke
0-5
-29.06
114

Last Place this week: Temple (0-6) at -55.38.

Biggest Gain this week: Arkansas gained 18.93 points. (Beat Auburn, 27-10)
Biggest Loss this week: Buffalo lost 21.65 points. (Lost to Ball State, 55-25)

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

The MRI Rankings are copyright 2006 by MRISports.com. Ben Miraski writes for MRISports.com and is a featured blogger on FanIQ. Readers can contact Ben at bmiraski@mrisports.com

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Posted October 9, 2006 12:00 PM

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