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MRI Football 2007 - Rankings Week 8

November 11, 2007

By Benjamin Miraski

Running Away With It? All it took was one big win and now LSU looks like they are running away with the MRI title. Of course, the big win was against Louisiana Tech, not exactly the Floridas or Auburns of the football world. That win has LSU comfortably in charge while the race behind them for #2 gets more interesting.

Ohio State, last week's #2 team lost to Illinois, at home, which dropped them down to #5 in the pack of teams which had separated themselves from the rest of the nation. That pack has one more team this week as Oklahoma has climbed back into the #2 picture at #6, just behind the Buckeyes.

With a week off, Oregon couldn't do anything to improve their standing. They stay dropped a spot to #4 this week. The Ducks also have the worst schedule of the teams remaining in the lead pack. That could hurt them even more as things move forward. They will have to definitively beat their opponents in order to keep pace with the rest of the teams.

Into the #3 spot this week is West Virginia, who was able to take care of Louisville after a little scare on Thursday night this week. West Virginia still seems like the dark horse in this whole race, and could surprise by sneaking into the title game.

Our new #2, which seems like the revolving position in the MRI, is Kansas, who had another big victory in conference this week. Most surprising about this Kansas team is that they seem to be able to overcome all of the troubles that they have had in the past. They can win on the road, and they are winning against the South Division. This week, the slowdown of Oklahoma State's offense was enough to catapult them into that #2 spot. They will need to keep playing well to stay there. They face a hot Iowa State team next week (who would have thought you could refer to Iowa State as hot), and then finish against MRI #7 Missouri, before maybe a shot at Oklahoma in the Big XII title game.

Check out all the rankings in week 8 of the Football MRI.

And Now the Rankings

RANK	TEAM	RECORD	MRI	LW
1	LSU	9-1	107.46	1
2	Kansas	10-0	97.88	5
3	West Virginia	8-1	95.87	4
4	Oregon	8-1	94.58	3
5	Ohio State	10-1	92.27	2
6	Oklahoma	9-1	91.43	6
7	Missouri	9-1	86.75	8
8	Arizona State	9-1	82.93	7
9	Florida	7-3	81.38	9
10	Clemson	8-2	79.50	13
11	Cincinnati	8-2	72.54	19
12	USC	8-2	72.18	11
13	Boise State	9-1	69.43	12
14	South Florida	7-3	69.07	17
15	Penn State	8-3	68.54	16
16	Virginia Tech	8-2	65.65	21
17	Hawaii	9-0	64.38	15
18	Georgia	8-2	62.82	24
19	Boston College	8-2	61.66	10
20	Texas	9-2	60.28	22
21	Connecticut	8-2	59.05	14
22	Texas Tech	7-4	55.12	20
23	Michigan	8-3	53.34	18
24	Utah	7-3	52.47	NR(49)
25	BYU	7-2	52.08	NR(31)

Teams Dropped From The Top 25: Arkansas (LW #23, TW #31), Purdue (LW #25, TW #35)

Other Teams People Might Care About

RANK	TEAM	RECORD	MRI	LW
26	Wisconsin	8-3	51.97	39
27	Illinois	8-3	51.62	33
28	Michigan State	6-5	51.49	32
34	Tennessee	7-3	46.98	44
35	Purdue	7-4	46.20	25
39	Auburn	7-4	44.49	26
41	Georgia Tech	6-4	44.09	45
42	Florida State	6-4	43.67	29
54	UCLA	5-5	28.17	59
56	Texas A&M	6-5	27.98	50
57	Indiana	6-5	27.02	60
59	Iowa	6-5	26.49	64
60	Miami	5-5	26.18	52
61	Maryland	5-5	26.02	71
66	Vanderbilt	5-5	22.28	65
69	Pittsburgh	4-5	21.02	70
70	Washington State	4-6	20.38	77
73	Northwestern	6-5	17.09	74
78	Nebraska	5-6	12.01	91
79	Miami(Ohio)	5-5	11.46	78
105	Notre Dame	1-9	-21.12	106
106	Duke	1-9	-22.11	104
116	Northern Illinois	2-8	-32.43	119

Last Place this week: Florida International (0-9) at -54.41. 7th week in a row.

Biggest Gain this week: Utah gained 16.82 points. (Beat Wyoming, 50-0)
Biggest Loss this week: New Mexico State lost 17.71 points. (Lost to San Jose State, 51-17)

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