AP: 11 Coaches: 9 No change in either. I have some issues with Ohio St (Come on, Navy???!??!), BYU (No Bradford == BYU Wins), and California (How good is Maryland) jumping us. I mostly agree with the other teams being in front of us at this point.
Coaches Poll Link AP (irrelevant) 1 Florida (56) 1-0 1493 2 Texas (2) 1-0 1424 3 USC 1-0 1355 4 Alabama (2) 1-0 1331 5 Oklahoma State 1-0 1201 6 Mississippi 1-0 1095 7 Penn State 1-0 1082 8 Ohio State 1-0 985 9 Brigham Young 1-0 984 10 California 1-0 971 11 LSU 1-0 890 12 Boise State 1-0 882 13 Oklahoma 0-1 782 14 Virginia Tech 0-1 652 15 Georgia Tech 1-0 630 16 TCU 0-0 523 17 Utah 1-0 404 18 Notre Dame 1-0 383 19 North Carolina 1-0 338 20 Miami (FL) 1-0 315 21 Georgia 0-1 294 22 Nebraska 1-0 266 23 Cincinnati 1-0 248 24 Kansas 1-0 196 25 Missouri 1-0 126 * Dropped from rankings: Oregon 16, Florida State 18, Iowa 22 * Others receiving votes: Oregon State 113, Michigan State 83, Pittsburgh 82, Texas Tech 53, Oregon 47, Clemson 40, Florida State 39, West Virginia 32, Tennessee 30, Iowa 24, Michigan 18, UCLA 18, Baylor 17, Boston College 14, Arizona 12, East Carolina 6, Air Force 4, Auburn 4, Colorado State 4, Arkansas 3, South Carolina 3, South Florida 1, Southern Miss 1, Houston 1, Tulsa 1
I agree with Ohio State and California jumping us being wrong. Gotta disagree with BYU. They were giving Oklahoma hell way before Bradford got knocked out. They earned their spot. We'll have plenty of opportunities to pass them later this year.
If you saw Landry Jones miss passes at the end of the game, you'd know that Sam won't miss those passes. I don't think BYU wins without knocking him out.
We'll never know. Even if true, BYU beat Oklahoma. We beat Washington. They deserve to be ahead of us this week. Like I said, we'll have plenty of chances to pass them in the future if we keep winning.
Ohio State didn't jump us, they were ahead of us already. Conversely, we would have jumped them with an impressive win. But that didn't happen. The last TD hurt us a lot (31-16 vs 31-23 would have looked a lot different for the coaches especially who don't get to see anything but a box score). But we didn't blow them out on purpose, so it is what it is. So don't look at it as "oh I can't believe they gave Cal that much credit for their win" but instead look at it as LSU got punished for looking lackluster and uninterested in being a top tier team this year. That's the statement the voters made. We need to convince them otherwise starting this week.
Look, we control our destiny. If we beat Florida twice, Ole Miss, and Alabama, the rankings will work themselves out. No point in getting upset because we didn't move from 11th to 10th in Week 1. Let's just use this time to let the team gel, and be ready for the real games.
