Monday, November 10, 2008

Week 12 Polls and Opponents

Week 12 starts early with a Tuesday night game between Ball State and Miami of Ohio so it's time to look at the polls and this week's opponents again.

With Penn State’s loss to Iowa, there is a new pecking order at the top of the charts. And with Texas Tech’s dominating victory, there’s even a bit of a question as to who is Number One. As usual there is some shake up at the bottom of the Top 25 rankings as well. West Virginia (20/23/24) disappears—for this week—as do California (21/22/22), Georgia Tech (22/20/20), Maryland (23/21/21), and Northwestern (NR/25/NR) while Cincinnati and South Carolina (re)appear.

(Poll numbers are those of the teams entering Week 12. The numbers on parentheses after the teams’ names are their rankings after Week 11. Rankings are from the AP Writers’ Poll/the Coaches Poll/CBSSports.com in that order. NR= Not Ranked You will note that when I refer to a team by its rank, I use the Writers’ Poll position.)
1/1/2 Alabama (1/1/1) The Crimson Tide head to Mississippi State.

2/2/1 Texas Tech (2/3/2) The Red Raiders are IDLE this week. They will be preparing to travel to Norman, OK on November 22 to face Oklahoma.

3/3/3 Florida (4/5/4) The Gators will be hosting the #24 South Carolina.

4/5/4 Texas (5/7/5) The Longhorns go north to Kansas.

5/4/5 Oklahoma (6/4/6) The Sooners are IDLE this week. They too will be trying to figure out how to stop the #2 Texas Tech Red Raiders on November 22.

6/6/6 Southern California (7/6/7) The Trojans host Stanford.

7/8/7 Penn State(3/2/3) The Nittany Lions travel to Indiana.

8/7/8 Utah The Utes (10/9/9) are on the road to face San Diego State.

9/9/9 Boise State (9/10/10) The Broncos travel upstate to face the Vandals of Idaho in Moscow, ID.

10/10/11 Ohio State(12/12/12) The Buckeyes travel to Illinois.

11/13/10 Oklahoma State (8/8/8) The Cowboys are at Colorado this week.

12/11/12 Missouri (13/13/14) The Tigers travel to Ames, IA to face Iowa State.

13/12/13 Georgia (14/14/13) The Bulldogs go to Auburn this week.

14/16/15 Ball State (16/18/17) The Cardinals take their perfect record to Miami (OH) on Tuesday night.

15/18/16 TCU (11/11/11) The Horned Frogs are IDLE this week.

16/14/14 Brigham Young (17/16/15) The Cougars go to Colorado Springs to face Air Force.

17/17/17 North Carolina (19/19/18) The Tar Heels play at the home of the Maryland Terps.

18/15/18 Michigan State (18/17/19) The Spartans are IDLE.

19/20/19 LSU (15/15/16) The Tigers host Troy this week.

20/19/20 Florida State (24/24/23) The Seminoles host Boston College.

21/21/21 Pittsburgh (25/NR/NR) The Panthers are IDLE this week.

22/22/22 Cincinnati (NR/NR/NR) The Bearcats got to Louisville to play the Cardinals.

23/25/23 Oregon State (NR/NR/NR) The Beavers travel south to face the Golden Bears of California.

24/23/25 South Carolina (NR/NR/NR) travel south to face the #3 Florida Gators in the Swamp.

25/24/24 Tulsa (NR/NR/25) The Golden Hurricane goes to Houston.

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