Monday, October 29, 2007

The TFFE Top 25: After Week 9

Fuck the LIRR. Going back to the "NOTES!" version of the top 25 this week, just out of time-related necessity. (I'm essentially taking 5 AM from 7 PM out of my day for training this week, didn't get back here until 8 thanks to train delays, and have to sleep around 10 or 11ish because, again, I have to get up at 5 AM tomorrow.)


#1 Ohio State (9-0, #1 LW)
#2 LSU (7-1, #2)
#3 Oregon (7-1, #3)
#4 West Virginia (7-1, #4)
#5 Oklahoma (7-1, #7)
#6 Missouri (7-1, #8)
#7 Arizona State (8-0, #9)
#8 Michigan (7-2, #10)
#9 Florida (5-3, #5)
#10 USC (6-2, #6)
#11 South Carolina (6-3, #11)
#12 Wisconsin (7-2, #16)
#13 Penn State (6-3, #15)
#14 California (5-3, #17)
#15 South Florida (6-2, #13)
#16 Boston College (8-0, #18)
#17 Texas (7-2, #14)
#18 Alabama (6-2, #19)
#19 Georgia (6-2, #23)
#20 Kentucky (6-3, #12)
#21 Kansas (8-0, #21)
#22 Illinois (6-2, #20)
#23 Auburn (6-3, --)
#24 Virginia Tech (6-2, #22)
#25 Connecticut (7-1, --)

NOTES!
Oklahoma moves up mostly by attrition - the top 4 are the only real should-be national title contenders at the moment.

I hate to keep South Carolina at #11 after two losses in a row, but I still think they beat all the teams behind them, and the Vols loss was more bad luck than the continuation of a trend that started against Vandy.

Both BC and Kansas have proved they can beat decent teams and not much else - BC's just faced more decent teams.

Brandon Cox's improvements seem to be legitimate, so I'm giving Auburn some credit.

UConn at 25 may be a little bit of wishful thinking/bias, but at the very least they've played well week in, week out, unlike the inconsistent Tennessees and Clemsons of the world.

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