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MRI Football 2010 - Rankings Week 9
November 14, 2010 | By Benjamin Miraski
Enough ranting on the insanity of the polls. Honestly, it was pretty obvious this week after TCU was passed by Boise State again.
This shouldn’t have happened. If the voters were watching for a second, they would have realized that San Diego State was far superior to Idaho.
San Diego State was a borderline top 25 team. Idaho is lucky it isn’t considered among the worst 10 teams in the country.
San Diego State should have challenged TCU. Idaho shouldn’t even have been on the same field as Boise State.
How do you justify the votes that you move away from TCU because of that? You can’t.
There are more important things to tackle this week, such as the proliferation of major upsets.
Illinois was poised to enter the top 25. How does a team like that lose to Minnesota?
Oregon State was supposed to be good. No top 25 team, but good. That is what Boise State and TCU have been counting on.
So how does that team go out and lay an egg against a team that had lost 19 straight Pac-10 games? There is no answer when you have the weapons the Beavers do.
Should we add in Notre Dame trouncing Utah (another way to discredit the power of TCU)?
Or maybe Tennessee taking out a solid, if middle of the pack, Mississippi team, by 38 points?
This was the week when everything you thought you knew just went out the window.
Even with the close win, TCU stayed at No. 1 in the MRI. The Horned Frogs are just too good and Idaho is just too terrible to lend that much to Boise State’s score.
It helped that Oregon struggled to fend off Cal, and that Auburn is still terrible at defense.
Yup, TCU is that good.
You could compare them to the Oklahoma team in 2003 that lost both the Big XII championship game and the BCS championship, and still remained No. 1. But that wouldn’t be fair.
TCU hasn’t lost a game yet. And other computer champions have had difficult game at the end of their seasons.
The Horned Frogs still have two more games left: the season finale against New Mexico which should be as simple as Boise’s victory over Idaho, and then a bowl game.
For all our sanity, let’s hope it is a BCS game. Anything less would be a severe insult to all our intelligence: computer or otherwise.
Check out all the rankings in week nine of the MRI rankings.
MRI Top 25 Rankings
| Rank | Team | Record | MRI | LW |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  TCU | 11-0 | 121.96 | 1 |
| 2 |  Boise State | 9-0 | 109.02 | 2 |
| 3 |  Oregon | 10-0 | 104.28 | 3 |
| 4 |  Ohio State | 9-1 | 103.07 | 4 |
| 5 |  Stanford | 9-1 | 83.74 | 5 |
| 6 |  Nebraska | 9-1 | 82.09 | 7 |
| 7 |  Oklahoma State | 9-1 | 81.29 | 8 |
| 8 |  Auburn | 11-0 | 80.41 | 6 |
| 9 |  Oklahoma | 8-2 | 79.04 | 13 |
| 10 |  Alabama | 8-2 | 78.01 | 10 |
| 11 | Nevada | 9-1 | 70.26 | 11 |
| 12 | Arkansas | 8-2 | 69.14 | 17 |
| 13 | Iowa | 7-3 | 68.21 | 9 |
| 14 | Missouri | 8-2 | 67.39 | 15 |
| 15 | Wisconsin | 9-1 | 66.37 | 21 |
| 16 | Virginia Tech | 8-2 | 66.06 | 20 |
| 17 | Arizona | 7-3 | 64.06 | 12 |
| 18 | LSU | 9-1 | 63.72 | 22 |
| 19 | Michigan State | 9-1 | 60.48 | 18 |
| 20 | Texas A&M | 7-3 | 57.50 | 23 |
| 21 | Utah | 8-2 | 56.45 | 14 |
| 22 | Florida | 6-4 | 54.51 | 16 |
| 23 | South Carolina | 7-3 | 53.72 | NR(42) |
| 24 | West Virginia | 6-3 | 53.34 | NR(34) |
| 25 | Northern Illinois | 8-2 | 53.26 | NR(40) |
Teams Dropped From The Top 25: Central Florida (LW #19, TW #30), Navy (LW #24, TW #27), Mississippi State (LW #25, TW #36)
Other Teams People Might Care About
| Rank | Team | Record | MRI | LW |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | Miami | 7-3 | 52.96 | 27 |
| 33 | Florida State | 7-3 | 49.06 | 28 |
| 34 | USC | 7-3 | 46.18 | 37 |
| 37 | Pittsburgh | 5-4 | 42.20 | 36 |
| 40 | Notre Dame | 5-5 | 39.41 | 60 |
| 41 | Illinois | 5-5 | 39.29 | 38 |
| 46 | Michigan | 7-3 | 36.22 | 48 |
| 48 | Clemson | 5-5 | 32.67 | 52 |
| 50 | Northwestern | 7-3 | 31.49 | 55 |
| 51 | Maryland | 7-3 | 31.15 | 59 |
| 58 | Penn State | 6-4 | 24.10 | 56 |
| 59 | Texas | 4-6 | 21.79 | 57 |
| 60 | Syracuse | 7-3 | 20.54 | 65 |
| 61 | Boston College | 5-5 | 20.20 | 73 |
| 62 | BYU | 5-5 | 19.82 | 81 |
| 69 | Georgia Tech | 5-5 | 17.16 | 61 |
| 76 | Tennessee | 4-6 | 10.23 | 89 |
| 79 | UCLA | 4-5 | 5.41 | 80 |
| 80 | Miami(Ohio) | 6-4 | 5.15 | 85 |
| 86 | Indiana | 4-6 | 1.85 | 78 |
| 96 | Purdue | 4-6 | -4.50 | 91 |
| 100 | Duke | 3-7 | -12.84 | 100 |
| 107 | Ball State | 4-7 | -27.04 | 112 |
| 110 | Washington State | 2-9 | -32.22 | 115 |
| 111 | Vanderbilt | 2-8 | -32.55 | 109 |
Last Place this week: Memphis (1-9) at -75.37.
Biggest Gain this week: South Carolina gained 15.08 points. (Beat Florida 36-14)
Biggest Loss this week: Mississippi lost 18.04 points (Lost to Tennessee 52-14)
Conference rankings this week: SEC, Big 12, Big Ten, PAC-10, Big East, ACC, WAC, Mountain West, Conference USA, MAC, Sun Belt
Conference rankings this week: SEC, Big 12, Big Ten, PAC-10, Big East, ACC, WAC, Mountain West, Conference USA, MAC, Sun Belt
Posted November 14, 2010 10:00 PM