Pre Week 15 Polls and Opponents

The next to the last polls are out. There are still some conferences that have games to play. Most are playoffs, but some are regular season games. The ACC, SEC, MAC and Big 12 have playoff games this weekend to determine the conference champions. Even so, the BCS ranks are all the talk this week as they determine who will be playing in some of those championship games. Let's look at the Top 10 BCS teams:

BCS Standings

Team	BCS Ave
Alabama	0.971
Oklahoma	0.935
Texas	0.922
Florida	0.885
Southern California	0.808
Utah	0.784
Texas Tech	0.781
Penn State	0.737
Boise State	0.703
Ohio State	0.634

As a result of the above, it will be Oklahoma vs Missouri in the Big 12 championship.

The following ranks are from the AP, Coaches and CBSSports polls.
(Poll numbers are those of the teams entering Week 15. The numbers on parentheses after the teams’ names are their rankings after Week 14. 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.)

1/1/1 Alabama (1/1/1) The Crimson Tide will face the #2 Florida Gators for the SEC championship.

2/4/2 Florida (2/3/2) The Gators take on #1 Alabama for the SEC championship.

3/3/4 Texas (4/4/4) Finish the season at 11-1.

4/2/3 Oklahoma (3/2/3) The Sooners face the Missouri Tigers for the Big 12 championship.

5/5/5 Southern California (5/5/5) The Trojans are on the road against rival UCLA in their season finale. Win and they go to the Rose Bowl.

6/6/7 Penn State (6/6/7) Finish the season at 11-1.

7/7/8 Utah (8/7/8) Finish the season at 12-0.

8/8/6 Texas Tech (7/8/6) Finish the season at 11-1.

9/9/9 Boise State (9/9/9) Finish the season at 12-0.

10/10/10 Ohio State (10/10/11) Finish the season at 10-2.

11/11/11 TCU (14/14/15) Finish the season at 10-2.

12/13/12 Ball State (15/15/14) The Cardinals square off against Buffalo for the MAC championship. They also put their 12-0 record on the line one more time.

13/12/13 Cincinnati (19/20/18) The 10-2 Big East Champion Bearcats will head to Hawaii to end the regular season.

14/15/15 Oklahoma State (11/12/10) Finish the season at 9-3.

15/16/14 Georgia Tech (18/23/20) Finish the season at 9-3.

16/14/17 Oregon (19/18/19) Finish the season at 9-3.

17/19/19 Georgia (13/13/13) Finish the season at 9-3.

18/20/16 Boston College (20T/22/21) The Eagles will face Virginia Tech for the ACC Championship.

19/17/21 Missouri (12/11/12) The Tigers will face the #4 Oklahoma Sooners for the Big 12 Championship.

20/18/18 Brigham Young (20T/19/23) Finish the season at 10-2.

21/21/23 Michigan State (22/21/24) Finish the season at 9-3.

22/25/24 Mississippi (25/NR/NR) Finish the season at 8-4.

23/23/20 Pittsburgh (NR/NR/NR) The Panthers take their 8-3 record to UConn to close their season.

24/22/22 Northwestern (24/20/18) Finish the season at 9-3.

25/24/NR Oregon State (17/17/17) Finish the season at 8-4.

NR/NR/25 Iowa (NR/NR/25) Finish the season at 8-4.