From Pollspeak.com The computers definitely see things differently at this point in the season with all five computers tapping LSU as the No. 1 team. Meanwhile all three human polls still rank Florida No. 1. This isn't a surprise, but it does show how differently humans and computers handle their week-to-week rankings. LSU didn't even receive one first place vote in any of the polls (AP, Coaches', or Harris Interactive). Florida may end up being national champions (relatively good odds according to Vegas). However, everybody who is voting Florida No. 1 is making many assumptions. For example, the Gators will play as well as they did last year. Opponents won't be better at defending the spread. Tim Tebow or other key players won't be injured. Other teams haven't improved more than Florida. Other teams won't get lucky, etc. Computers can't make these assumptions. Instead, they'll have to wait until Florida plays LSU next week. After that, I strongly suspect the computers and humans will be on the same page for the first time this season. As a side note, watching ESPN College Football Live and none (none?) of the commentators had LSU in their Top 5. They all had USC, Cincinnatti, Virginia Tech (TCU and Boise maybe, can't exactly remember) ahead of us. :huh:
Maybe it's because we have squeaked by every game, haven't really shown much on offense, and have just under-performed in general.
Saw that one coming. It's mostly due to the schedule. Washington helped, but I hope there bad luck turns for them and win a few more...at least make a bowl game. USL beating K-State helped as well. IIIFFFF we go one loss this year with that one loss being respectable, and there is only one or no undefeated teams, the computers will probably put LSU in the title game. But if IIIFFFF were a fifth...well you know the rest...
It's the strength of schedule LSU has had so far. We haven't played Troy, Charleston Southern, and Kentucky. College Football Ranking Summary
LSU #1 in every (computer) poll Pollspeak welcomes our computer ranking overlords | FanNation Well, that's interesting. Doesn't mean anything at this point, but the computers take things like margin of victory and statistics into account... which most of the LSU fanbase has been pooping on.
