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Aggie Schadenfreude
For the first time since early in the 2007 season, Texas A&M is nationally-ranked. The Aggies are #23 in the AP poll -- #25 in the USA Today Coaches Poll. Oregon, Auburn and TCU are the Top 3 in the AP poll with the Horned Frogs trailing Auburn by only 5 points. Texas' opponent this week, Oklahoma...
3 UTEP Women's Basketball Player's Involved In Drug-Related Incident?
Interesting story coming out of the women's basketball program today, who have received votes in both the AP Top 25 and the Coaches Top 25, we may now know as to why 2 female basketball players were suspended from the team before their game with Houston on January 22nd. According to the report via...
Mississippi State moves up to 16 in AP, 17 in USA Today polls
The Bulldogs will head to Auburn this weekend to take on the Tigers as the #16 team in the country (#17 according to USA Today). They were previously #20 in both polls. Meanwhile, the Tigers dropped out of the AP poll completely after their performance against Utah State and are ranked #22 in the...
Analyzing 10 Years of Preseason AP Football Poll Data
The Associated Press released its 2011 preseason football poll this weekend, ranking Virginia Tech No. 13. The concept of the preseason poll is an interesting one because of how much change there is in college football from year to year. The preseason poll is a complete crapshoot, but its effect...
We Can Talk All the Polls We Want, So Long As We Keep Winning
The AP Top 25. The USA Today coaches' poll. The BCS. The Harris poll. The SB Nation BlogPoll. The Power 16. The Bottom 10. The Average 8. It seems all anyone wants to talk about this week are polls. After the dust settled following the Ducks' primetime, nationally televised outburst in a 52-31 win...
Oklahoma At #7 In Initial AP Poll - Who Gave The Sooners A First Place Vote?
As far as polls go, I have so much more respect for the AP Poll than I do the buddy system Coaches Poll. There are a few reasons that attribute to this and here are a couple of them. First, they had the audacity to no longer be associated with the BCS. Second, their votes are published so when you...
Utes finish ranked 18th in both polls
Utah finished the season ranked 18th in both the media and coaches' poll. It marks only the second time in school history Utah has had back-to-back top-25 finishes. Texas, who gave Alabama a scare, finished second and Florida third in both polls. Which means the 14-0 Broncos failed to capture any...
Stunner: Texas Tech No. 23 in Latest AP Poll
Special to Big12Hoops.comsports@big12hoops.com Texas Tech joined the AP Top 25 for the first time in the Pat Knight era. The Red Raiders, predicted to finish 11th in the Big12Hoops.com Big 12 Conference preseason rankings currently stand at 8-0 following Thurday's 99-92 upset win over Washington...
Ranking Teams is Hard
Last week, one of the big "controversies" of the AP Poll was the ranking of USC ahead of Oregon, even though the Ducks had obliterated USC only a few weeks prior. No worries this week however, as USC has fallen all the way to number 22 after their loss to Stanford and Oregon has climbed to number...
Sooners Back In The Top 10
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