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MRI Football 2008 - Rankings Bowl Final

January 10, 2009 | By Benjamin Miraski

Urban Meyer poses with a nicer trophy than the MRI can give him. The MRI would like to congratulate its 2008-2009 champion, the Florida Gators. Florida cemented its hold on the No. 1 spot in the computer rankings with its 24-14 victory over Oklahoma.

By losing the Sooners fell to third in the rankings, still ahead of a Texas team that is probably still smarting since it beat Oklahoma by the same margin as Florida managed in the championship game.

Moving into the No. 2 position was not Utah as in the AP poll. Instead, it was a USC team that proved itself against Penn State in the Rose Bowl.

The upstart Utes only improved to No. 8 moving ahead of the Alabama Crimson Tide that it beat in the Sugar Bowl.

And for those BCS lovers out there, Virginia Tech also moved up into the rankings... that's the entire rankings since even the ACC winner was unranked after the season ended. The Hokies managed a No. 24 rankings after beating Cincinnati in the Orange Bowl.

The MRI correctly predicted the winner of 21 of the 34 bowl games, a 61.8 percent mark. For the season, the computer predicted 72.92 percent of the games. All-time, the computer has chosen 70.92 percent of the winners.

Check out all the rankings in the bowl final edition of the MRI:

MRI Top 25 Rankings

Rank	Team	Record	MRI	LW
1	Florida	13-1	138.98	1
2	USC	12-1	130.36	3
3	Oklahoma	12-2	126.07	2
4	Texas	12-1	119.50	4
5	Penn State	11-2	108.40	5
6	TCU	11-2	96.54	7
7	Boise State	12-1	92.46	6
8	Utah	13-0	92.43	10
9	Alabama	12-2	87.42	8
10	Ohio State	10-3	80.65	9
11	Tulsa	11-3	79.68	14
12	Texas Tech	11-2	76.05	11
13	Oregon	10-3	75.05	12
14	Missouri	10-4	67.77	13
15	Georgia	10-3	66.18	19
16	Cal	9-4	66.07	18
17	Iowa	9-4	65.92	17
18	Oregon State	9-4	59.88	21
19	Arizona	8-5	59.00	22
20	Oklahoma State	9-4	56.91	16
21	Mississippi	9-4	56.14	23
22	BYU	10-3	56.02	20
23	Florida State	9-4	55.68	NR(29)
24	Virginia Tech	10-4	52.84	NR(30)
25	Ball State	12-2	51.65	15

Teams Dropped From The Top 25: Pittsburgh (LW #24, TW #27), Troy (LW #25, TW #31)

Other Teams People Might Care About

Rank	Team	Record	MRI	LW
27	Pittsburgh	9-4	50.68	24
36	Boston College	9-5	43.78	34
37	Michigan State	9-4	43.73	27
40	LSU	8-5	41.19	54
47	Georgia Tech	9-4	34.85	31
48	Notre Dame	7-6	34.51	57
49	Clemson	7-6	34.00	46
51	Northwestern	9-4	32.89	48
52	Vanderbilt	7-6	31.89	58
53	Tennessee	5-7	31.67	55
54	Wisconsin	7-6	30.10	40
57	Northern Illinois	6-7	27.64	53
60	Miami	7-6	24.67	60
62	Illinois	5-7	23.18	61
67	Auburn	5-7	17.81	68
70	Maryland	8-5	15.55	75
80	Purdue	4-8	8.25	79
88	Duke	4-8	-2.17	87
94	UCLA	4-8	-9.03	95
95	Michigan	3-9	-9.82	91
104	Texas A&M	4-8	-22.44	102
112	Indiana	3-9	-43.94	112
115	Miami(Ohio)	2-10	-51.18	114
119	Washington State	2-11	-83.74	119

Last Place this week: North Texas (1-11) at -87.61. 4th week in a row.

Biggest Gain this week: Tulsa gained 15.76 points. (Beat Ball State in the GMAC Bowl (45-13))

Biggest Loss this week: Ball State lost 11.33 points (Lost to Tulsa in the GMAC Bowl (13-45))

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

The MRI Rankings are copyright 2008 by MRISports.com. Ben Miraski is a reporter for the Medill News Service, edits and writes for MRISports.com and is a featured blogger on FanIQ. Readers can contact Ben at bmiraski@mrisports.com

Posted January 10, 2009 1:03 PM

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