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November 26, 2006

MRI Football 2006 - Rankings Week 10

Pete Carroll celebrates USC's return to the top 5 in the MRI (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)Ohio State and Michigan may have been idle, but they have cemented a spot as the top two in the MRI, at least until the bowl games.

LSU and Boise State both finished their season with wins. The LSU Tigers held strong to their #3 position, but failed to gain any ground on Michigan. Why? They surrendered too many yards to Arkansas, hurting their defensive rating overall. However, this win may have put them in the best position for an at large bid in the BCS, if the bowls want to take a second team from the SEC.

Boise State made the big jump to #4, based on their nice win over Nevada. The Broncos most likely will be in place to make their first trip to BCS bowl when the final ratings finish.

Finally, USC's crushing win over Notre Dame has jumped them to #5 in the MRI. They are the only team with a chance to move up to #3 or with a huge win over UCLA, #2. However, the more likely scenario is #3 to end the season, provided they play like they did against Notre Dame.

The regular season closes out next week, with the final MRI ratings before the bowls being released on Sunday or Monday. We will once again be attempting to track the MRI's performance against the "World" when picking the winners of the bowl games.

Check out all the ratings in Week 10 of the MRI.

And Now the Rankings

RANK
TEAM
RECORD
MRI
LW
1
Ohio State Helmet
Ohio State
12-0
116.87
1
2
Michigan Helmet
Michigan
11-1
106.25
2
3
LSU Helmet
LSU
10-2
101.84
3
4
Boise State Helmet
Boise State
12-0
99.54
10
5
USC Helmet
USC
10-1
96.14
6
6
Louisville Helmet
Louisville
10-1
94.10
5
7
West Virginia Helmet
West Virginia
9-2
87.05
4
8
BYU Helmet
BYU
10-2
86.27
7
9
Wisconsin Helmet
Wisconsin
11-1
85.47
9
10
Florida Helmet
Florida
11-1
84.22
11
11
Texas
9-3
81.95
8
12
Virginia Tech
10-2
79.82
14
13
Hawaii
10-2
74.23
17
14
Clemson
8-4
73.88
12
15
Notre Dame
10-2
72.73
13
16
Oklahoma
10-2
72.04
16
17
Auburn
10-2
71.84
15
18
Rutgers
10-1
71.00
22
19
Arkansas
10-2
70.62
18
20
Cal
8-3
67.86
19
21
TCU
9-2
65.17
24
22
Boston College
9-3
62.87
20
23
Tennessee
9-3
62.63
23
24
Houston
9-3
62.57
21
25
Texas A&M
9-3
61.14
NR(26)

Teams Dropped From The Top 25: Nebraska (LW #25, TW #27)

Other Teams People Might Care About

RANK
TEAM
RECORD
MRI
LW
27
Nebraska
9-3
60.18
25
31
Georgia Tech
9-3
50.01
27
36
Florida State
6-6
44.52
33
40
UCLA
6-5
43.85
39
45
Pittsburgh
6-6
39.39
41
50
Northern Illinois
7-5
35.27
58
55
Washington State
6-6
31.99
53
57
Miami
6-6
31.50
59
60
Iowa
6-6
27.89
60
65
Purdue
8-5
18.34
64
67
Maryland
8-4
16.23
65
72
Michigan State
4-8
10.30
75
76
Vanderbilt
4-8
8.44
78
84
Indiana
5-7
0.71
88
90
Illinois
2-10
-1.47
91
96
Northwestern
4-8
-7.13
96
98
Miami(Ohio)
2-10
-9.14
95
116
Duke
0-12
-54.99
117

Last Place this week: Temple (1-11) at -76.28. 8th week in a row.

Biggest Gain this week: Boise State gained 14.82 points. (Beat Nevada, 38-7)
Biggest Loss this week: North Texas lost 15.05 points. (Lost to Louisiana-Monroe, 23-3)

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 26, 2006 5:30 PM

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