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November 13, 2006

MRI Football 2006 - Rankings Week 8

Another Win for Ohio State means it has almost sealed the #1 spot. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)With all the craziness across the country this weekend, the ratings seemed to jumble a little bit. Auburn took a big spill with their loss to Georgia. Louisville didn't manage to hold on to their lead among the Big East teams with their loss to Rutgers, allowing the Scarlet Knights to inch closer to the top 10. Texas's three point loss to Kansas State didn't drop them from the #4 spot. But their lack of gaining points in the MRI dropped them closer to the now #5 West Virginia.

Ohio State and Michigan moved forward again, but the gap between the two teams narrowed. Based on the current numbers, Ohio State will be favored by the MRI thanks to the home field advantage against Michigan, but the game should be very close. Based on the MRI's history, the percentage chance of an Ohio State win is a little less than 80% which seems high right now, so we will just have to wait and see.

The biggest winner of the week might have been USC who climbs back into the top 10 at #8 and seems poised to make a run at the teams currently running the show. Just like in the BCS, if USC can win out, it is entirely possible for them to move into the #2 spot overall or maybe #3.

Check out all the rankings in Week 8 of the MRI.

And Now the Rankings

RANK
TEAM
RECORD
MRI
LW
1
Ohio State Helmet
Ohio State
11-0
114.43
1
2
Michigan Helmet
Michigan
11-0
110.58
2
3
LSU Helmet
LSU
8-2
96.35
3
4
Texas Helmet
Texas
9-2
86.38
4
5
West Virginia Helmet
West Virginia
8-1
86.36
7
6
BYU Helmet
BYU
8-2
82.10
14
7
Louisville Helmet
Louisville
8-1
81.31
6
8
USC Helmet
USC
8-1
81.24
13
9
Wisconsin Helmet
Wisconsin
10-1
79.40
9
10
Boise State Helmet
Boise State
10-0
79.38
8
11
Florida
9-1
75.01
10
12
Clemson
8-3
74.63
11
13
Rutgers
9-0
71.73
15
14
Auburn
9-2
70.95
5
15
Cal
8-2
69.87
12
16
Notre Dame
9-1
68.75
17
17
Arkansas
9-1
68.68
20
18
Oklahoma
8-2
66.06
16
19
Virginia Tech
8-2
64.47
22
20
Houston
8-3
59.75
24
21
Hawaii
8-2
59.11
NR(27)
22
Oregon
7-3
57.99
19
23
Nebraska
8-3
57.48
23
24
Boston College
8-2
56.90
25
25
Missouri
7-3
55.68
NR(26)

Teams Dropped From The Top 25: Tennessee (LW #18, TW #21), Texas A&M (LW #21, TW #26)

Other Teams People Might Care About

RANK
TEAM
RECORD
MRI
LW
26
Texas A&M
8-3
55.52
21
27
Tennessee
7-3
54.28
18
29
Georgia Tech
8-2
50.19
32
33
Pittsburgh
6-4
48.50
28
37
Florida State
5-5
44.76
30
43
UCLA
5-5
39.58
51
49
Miami
5-5
34.14
43
50
Washington State
6-5
33.83
33
57
Iowa
6-5
30.46
53
60
Maryland
8-2
26.79
60
63
Purdue
7-4
20.40
67
64
Northern Illinois
5-5
19.39
59
73
Vanderbilt
4-7
12.00
65
74
Michigan State
4-7
10.20
66
82
Illinois
2-9
3.03
79
88
Indiana
5-6
0.91
87
98
Miami(Ohio)
1-9
-10.52
100
99
Northwestern
3-8
-12.61
101
117
Duke
0-10
-51.56
116

Last Place this week: Temple (1-10) at -70.37. 6th week in a row.

Biggest Gain this week: Georgia gained 14.51 points. (Beat Auburn, 37-15)
Biggest Loss this week: Florida International lost 22.60 points. (Lost to Louisiana-Monroe, 35-0)

Conference rankings this week: Big East, SEC, Big Ten, PAC-10, Big 12, 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

Posted by bmiraski at November 13, 2006 5:00 PM

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