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November 20, 2006

MRI Football 2006 - Rankings Week 9

Ohio State celebrates their #1 MRI ranking (AP Photo/ The Plain Dealer, Marvin Fong)Game of the century? I am not sure I want to say that, but it was very good.

I think with so much on the line this past Saturday, the game will go down as one of the best of the first 6 years of this century. Does it beat out last year's championship game? Maybe in retrospect at some point, it might, but Texas-USC last year was something special. And the winner of that game got to take home the crystal football.

The winner of this game, Ohio State, still might get that honor. They might have to beat Michigan again to get it though. Looking at the BCS standings right now, I wouldn't be surprised if USC passes Michigan with a win against Notre Dame this Saturday. And after that, only a loss to UCLA would have the ability to move them from the #2 spot.

I personally am hoping that we do not see a rematch. But, you never can tell what will happen, especially when it comes to polls and computers.

For example, the MRI still has Michigan at #2, but the gap between them and the rest of the top 5 has certainly narrowed. With LSU's big game this week against Arkansas, a win might move the Tigers past Michigan into the #2 spot.

Rounding out the top 5 are West Virginia and Louisville. The Big East has been tough to shake this year.

Check out all the ratings in Week 9 of the MRI Football Ratings.

And Now the Rankings

RANK
TEAM
RECORD
MRI
LW
1
Ohio State Helmet
Ohio State
12-0
117.04
1
2
Michigan Helmet
Michigan
11-1
106.65
2
3
LSU Helmet
LSU
9-2
100.52
3
4
West Virginia Helmet
West Virginia
9-1
93.03
5
5
Louisville Helmet
Louisville
9-1
87.25
7
6
USC Helmet
USC
9-1
87.19
8
7
BYU Helmet
BYU
9-2
87.03
6
8
TexasHelmet
Texas
9-2
86.64
4
9
Wisconsin Helmet
Wisconsin
11-1
86.06
9
10
Boise State Helmet
Boise State
11-0
84.72
10
11
Florida
10-1
77.66
11
12
Clemson
8-3
76.98
12
13
Notre Dame
10-1
75.68
16
14
Virginia Tech
9-2
73.43
19
15
Auburn
10-2
72.23
14
16
Oklahoma
9-2
71.32
18
17
Hawaii
9-2
69.64
17
18
Arkansas
10-1
69.44
17
19
Cal
8-3
66.35
15
20
Boston College
9-2
65.46
24
21
Houston
9-3
61.98
20
22
Rutgers
9-1
61.30
13
23
Tennessee
8-3
61.29
NR(27)
24
TCU
8-2
58.13
NR(34)
25
Nebraska
8-3
56.98
23

Teams Dropped From The Top 25: Oregon (LW #22, TW #36), Missouri (LW #25, TW #28)

Other Teams People Might Care About

RANK
TEAM
RECORD
MRI
LW
26
Texas A&M
8-3
55.78
26
27
Georgia Tech
9-2
53.40
29
33
Florida State
6-5
47.38
37
39
UCLA
6-5
43.23
43
41
Pittsburgh
6-5
42.49
33
53
Washington State
6-6
31.04
50
58
Northern Illinois
6-5
29.77
64
59
Miami
5-6
29.25
49
60
Iowa
6-6
27.59
57
64
Purdue
8-4
22.54
63
65
Maryland
8-3
21.91
60
75
Michigan State
4-8
10.78
74
78
Vanderbilt
4-8
7.02
73
88
Indiana
5-7
0.77
88
91
Illinois
2-10
-1.96
82
95
Miami(Ohio)
2-9
-6.34
98
96
Northwestern
4-8
-6.43
99
117
Duke
0-11
-53.55
117

Last Place this week: Temple (1-11) at -76.04. 7th week in a row.

Biggest Gain this week: South Carolina gained 12.57 points. (Beat Middle Tennessee State, 52-7)
Biggest Loss this week: Middle Tennessee State lost 14.08 points. (Lost to South Carolina, 52-7)

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 20, 2006 7:30 PM

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