USF #12 in coaches poll - 6th in Saragrin poll

[USFan]

Wow... Rutgers is not ranked.  UConn is not ranked.

[TakeItOrLeavitt]

I think the biggest insult is Rutgers not being ranked... How can that be justified?

[Skingraft]

ok...someone simplify this for me....ELO and what else goes into the BCS?  Learning something I did not know here...

[Economics_Nerd82]

Wow... Homefield advantage (according to Sagarin) took a 1 point dive this week. He says it's only worth 2 points now.

Says we also have the 8th hardest schedule so far.

LSU is 4-1 against top 30 teams. That's **** good.

Auburn is 18th in the ELO.

[Economics_Nerd82]

ok...someone simplify this for me....ELO and what else goes into the BCS?  Learning something I did not know here...

1/3 of the BCS is the USA Today Coaches Poll

1/3 of the  BCS is the Harris Poll

1/3 of the BCS is the the AVERAGE of 4 computer polls (after the highest and lowest scores are dropped)

[MarketingGuy]

The piece they use for the BCS rankings. ELO_CHESS, has us at 6th, Oregon is 13th, WVU is 9th and Florida is 11th. I think that is much more realistic. It even has BC at #1 and LSU #2 and the OSU chicken****s are #3. Much more realistic

Agreed! Nice to some realism..

[GarySJ]

I think the biggest insult is Rutgers not being ranked...

It's definitely the biggest insult. Wisconsin's been a fraud all season, Penn State's only win over a Top 50 team is against Wisconsin, and Michigan is still 0-1 in Southern Conference play. But the biggest insult of all is that Rutgers has fewer votes than BOISE FREAKING STATE.

[Economics_Nerd82]

While I am at it. We always hear and talk about how the Big East is weak. It's not according to Sagarin. He has us 2nd to the SEC.

1  SOUTHEASTERN        (A) =  80.76

2  BIG EAST            (A) =  79.21

3  PAC-10              (A) =  78.20

4  BIG 12              (A) =  78.18

5  ATLANTIC COAST      (A) =  77.36

6  BIG TEN             (A) =  75.37

[Meccariello]

Coaches Poll

1 Ohio State

2 Boston College

3 LSU

4 Oklahoma

5 Oregon

6 West Virginia

7 Arizona State

8 Southern California

9 Virginia Tech

10 Kansas

11 Florida

12 South Florida

13 Missouri

14 Hawaii

15 Kentucky

16 Texas

17 South Carolina

18 Virginia

19 Georgia

20 California

21 Michigan

22 Penn State

23 Auburn

24 Alabama

25 Wisconsin

[Blackice12]

I figured it out. The Coaches are not trying to rank teams where they are but more so where they think they will end up at the end of the season.  It is human nature, people do not like a lot of change and USF is a dissident team.