RC Index Week 11

Another one bites the dust. Ohio State either got caught looking ahead to Michigan or got exposed as a soft-schedule champ. Either way, that cleared the way for pandemonium. The BCS is going to hit TILT this year again, but it will at least give teams a chance to play each other for the championship. Traditional bowl alliances would have LSU playing Kansas and Ohio State playing Oregon. So maybe that's not so bad right now, but let's let the season play out.

	RC1						RC2						BCS
1	LSU	9	1	0.913		1	LSU	9	1	0.920		1	LSU	0.9802
2	Kansas	10	0	0.911		2	Kansas	10	0	0.903		2	Oregon	0.9383
3	Missouri	9	1	0.900		3	WVU	8	1	0.894		3	Kansas	0.9094
4	Ohio State	10	1	0.897		4	Oregon	8	1	0.892		4	Oklahoma	0.8540
5	WVU	8	1	0.886		5	Missouri	9	1	0.889		5	Missouri	0.8096
6	Oregon	8	1	0.884		6	Ohio State	10	1	0.887		6	WVU	0.7863
7	Georgia	8	2	0.877		7	Oklahoma	9	1	0.877		7	Ohio State	0.7744
8	Oklahoma	9	1	0.870		8	Arizona St.	9	1	0.876		8	Arizona St.	0.7500
9	Arizona St.	9	1	0.869		9	Georgia	8	2	0.865		9	Georgia	0.6724
10	Va. Tech	8	2	0.854		10	Florida	7	3	0.850		10	Va. Tech	0.6133
11	Connecticut	8	2	0.853		11	Texas	9	2	0.845		11	USC	0.5267
12	Cincinnati	8	2	0.849		12	Va. Tech	8	2	0.842		12	Florida	0.5047
13	Florida	7	3	0.842		13	Virginia	9	2	0.841		13	Texas	0.4660
14	Clemson	8	2	0.841		14	Cincinnati	8	2	0.839		14	Virginia	0.4074
15	Texas	9	2	0.838		15	Clemson	8	2	0.830		15	Clemson	0.3924
16	BC	8	2	0.836		16	BC	8	2	0.825		16	Hawaii	0.3858
17	Kentucky	7	3	0.835		16	Connecticut	8	2	0.825		17	BC	0.3627
18	Virginia	9	2	0.834		18	Tennessee	7	3	0.824		18	Boise State	0.2621
18	Hawaii	9	0	0.834		19	Kentucky	7	3	0.822		19	Illinois	0.2447
20	Illinois	8	3	0.830		20	Illinois	8	3	0.819		20	Tennessee	0.2393
21	Michigan	8	3	0.822		21	Hawaii	9	0	0.814		21	Michigan	0.4866
22	USF	7	3	0.819		22	Michigan	8	3	0.811		22	Cincinnati	0.1840
22	Tennessee	7	3	0.816		23	Penn State	8	3	0.810		23	Kentucky	0.1735
24	Penn State	8	3	0.803		24	USC	8	2	0.808		24	Connecticut	0.1480
25	Wisconsin	8	3	0.802		25	USF	7	3	0.807		25	Wisconsin	0.1203
25	Boise State	9	1	0.802

Some things to note. The Big XII ain't lookin' so bad these days with three of the Top 5 and Texas at #13. USC is vastly overrated according to both my indeces (#27 in RC1 at 0.801). I think Georgia would give LSU it's money's worth and more if they would meet in the SEC Championship Game. Unfortunately, their destiny isn't in their own hands. They need Tennessee to lose at home to Vandy or at Kentucky for that to happen, and that doesn't see likely.

Kansas isn't too far behind Oregon and should get an enormous boost of schedule strength and hopefully at least a few poll votes should they beat Missouri & Oklahoma to finish the season. Iowa State has come on the second half of the season, so they won't hurt as much. Oregon faces Arizona, UCLA and Oregon State to finish the season; not exactly a murderer's row. It will all come down to who has the more impressive victories. I think if Kansas gets by Oklahoma in the Big XII title game they should be in the BCS Championship Game no matter what. I don't think an undefeated team from a major conference would get left out. The voters would never allow . At least I hope not.

How 'bout UT possibly finishing 10-2 this year? Not bad for a rebuilding year. And quite a bit better than the rebuilding year the "Fighting" Irish are having. They are #111 out of 120 in both my ratings. Good thing they got rid of Tyrone Willingham!