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MRI Football 2007 - Rankings Week 2

October 1, 2007  |  By Benjamin Miraski

Jacob Hester's scoring has the LSU Tigers back on top of the MRI.With casualties left and right on Saturday, you might expect a huge shake-up in the top 25 of the MRI. Not so fast.

While leaders did take falls, they had some pretty inflated numbers in the grand scheme of things. The losses have brought them back into the pack. Oklahoma, for example, was flying high at #1, but the loss dropped 14% of their MRI score off. That moved them back, but thanks to other teams taking major losses, they only fall to #2.

Taking advantage of the loss was LSU, who slept through the first half against Tulane, leading only 10-9. However, they rebounded with 24 points in the second half as they shut out the Green Wave. LSU jumps from #3 back to the #1 spot they held at the end of last season. Keep in mind that LSU has not played the toughest part of their SEC schedule yet, which starts next week with games against Florida, Kentucky, and Auburn over three straight weeks.

Moving to #3 is Ohio State who didn't really sweat anything against Minnesota on Saturday night, taking a 30-7 victory. As I said in Saturday morning's "MRI Says" article, this Ohio State might be better than last year's version. Moving up into the #4 spot is Arizona State. The Sun Devils seem like they are for real and they have definitely shaken off all the drama that enveloped that team last season. We all know that Dennis Erickson can coach at the college level, now we just have to wait until Oct 27, when they have their first real test against Cal.

Rounding out the Top 5 is Florida, who took a big hit by losing to Auburn. It seems that the Gators have one game a year they just can't get past, and this Auburn game has been it over the past couple of years. Their game against LSU this weekend will be huge.

Check out all the rankings in Week 2 of the football MRI.

And Now the Rankings

RANK
TEAM
RECORD
MRI
LW
1
LSU Helmet
LSU
5-0
87.35
3
2
Oklahoma Helmet
Oklahoma
4-1
75.44
1
3
Ohio State Helmet
Ohio State
5-0
73.21
4
4
Arizona State Helmet
Arizona State
5-0
72.78
11
5
Florida Helmet
Florida
4-1
72.27
2
6
Kansas Helmet
Kansas
4-0
71.29
5
7
USC Helmet
USC
4-0
70.38
7
8
Connecticut Helmet
Connecticut
5-0
70.10
13
9
West Virginia Helmet
West Virginia
4-1
67.04
9
10
Cincinnati Helmet
Cincinnati
5-0
65.17
12
11
Kentucky
5-0
63.55
21
12
Oregon
4-1
62.24
8
13
Hawaii
5-0
61.92
10
14
Cal
5-0
58.30
18
15
Boston College
5-0
54.69
15
16
Texas Tech
4-1
53.46
24
17
Michigan State
4-1
52.69
16
18
Purdue
5-0
51.11
17
19
South Florida
4-0
51.07
20
20
Rutgers
3-1
50.71
6
21
Missouri
4-0
50.11
23
22
Kansas State
3-1
48.65
NR(33)
23
Indiana
4-1
48.15
25
24
Texas
4-1
47.74
14
25
Ball State
3-2
46.91
NR(42)

Teams Dropped From The Top 25: Clemson (LW #19, TW #35), Wisconsin (LW #22, TW #28)

Other Teams People Might Care About

RANK
TEAM
RECORD
MRI
LW
28
Wisconsin
5-0
45.96
22
31
UCLA
4-1
43.35
31
34
Nebraska
4-1
41.96
34
35
Clemson
4-1
41.73
19
37
Florida State
3-1
41.17
35
38
Illinois
4-1
40.89
32
39
Texas A&M
4-1
39.74
57
40
Auburn
3-2
39.48
46
41
Miami
4-1
38.31
40
45
Vanderbilt
3-1
35.90
54
46
Georgia Tech
3-2
35.50
51
52
Tennessee
2-2
31.77
45
53
Iowa
2-3
31.66
37
58
Maryland
3-2
28.13
74
60
Michigan
3-2
27.72
71
76
Pittsburgh
2-3
17.49
69
85
Northwestern
2-3
8.57
80
87
Washington State
2-3
7.46
61
94
Duke
1-4
3.80
96
96
Miami(Ohio)
2-3
3.25
111
114
Northern Illinois
1-4
-16.17
104
118
Notre Dame
0-5
-25.71
120

Last Place this week: Florida International (0-5) at -42.03.

Biggest Gain this week: Arizona gained 14.34 points. (Beat Washington State, 48-20)
Biggest Loss this week: Buffalo lost 23.57 points. (Lost to Ball State, 49-14)

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

The MRI Rankings are copyright 2007 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 1, 2007 11:00 AM

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