Posted October 12th, 2008 by Brian
Filed under: Feature, Football

Voters agree with Colt, Texas is number 1!

Voters agree with Colt, Texas is number 1!

Well lookie here, the Texas Longhorns are the new number one team in the land. After the team’s big win over [tag]Oklahoma[/tag] the team vaulted from number five in both polls to the very top. Huge shakeup this week with losses in the top five by OU, Missouri, and LSU, but in the AP poll the Sooners surprisingly only fell to number four. [tag]Alabama[/tag] is a very close second in both polls followed by [tag]Penn State[/tag].

This week’s opponent [tag]Missouri[/tag] fell out of the top ten with a loss, but they’re still a very good team and it doesn’t get easier after them. Due to the way the schedules lay out, the Longhorns could actually face two more top five teams in [tag]Oklahoma State[/tag] and [tag]Texas Tech[/tag] if they win the games they should and stay undefeated.

Check out this week’s rankings or view the top 10 teams below:

  AP Top 25   USA Today Poll
1 Texas (39) 6-0 1,599   Texas (44) 6-0 1,505
2 Alabama (26) 6-0 1,582   Alabama (14) 6-0 1,452
3 Penn State 7-0 1,492   Penn State (3) 7-0 1,416
4 Oklahoma 5-1 1,306   USC 4-1 1,198
5 Florida 5-1 1,284   Texas Tech 6-0 1,195
6 USC 4-1 1,247   Oklahoma 5-1 1,147
7 Texas Tech 6-0 1,210   Florida 5-1 1,145
8 Oklahoma State 6-0 1,184   Brigham Young 6-0 1,143
9 Brigham Young 6-0 1,131   Georgia 5-1 1,010
10 Georgia 5-1 1,081   Oklahoma State 6-0 958
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Posted October 5th, 2008 by Brian
Filed under: Football

No upsets mean not much movement within the top of the rankings this week. [tag]Alabama[/tag] looked shaky and almost went down but otherwise just [tag]South Florida[/tag] suffered a loss. The Oklahoma Sooners won impressively and picked up additional first place votes heading into their match-up against the good guys. The Longhorns stayed at number five in both polls but did lose a few points in the USA Today Coaches Poll, despite easily handling a solid conference opponent.

Check out this week’s rankings or view the top 10 teams below:

  AP Top 25   USA Today Poll
1 Oklahoma (51) 5-0 1,608   Oklahoma (60) 5-0 1,524
2 Alabama (13) 6-0 1,537   Missouri 5-0 1,404
3 Missouri (1) 5-0 1,487   LSU (1) 4-0 1,398
4 LSU 4-0 1,444   Alabama 6-0 1,339
5 Texas 5-0 1,374   Texas 5-0 1,305
6 Penn State 6-0 1,287   Penn State 6-0 1,203
7 Texas Tech 5-0 1,163   Texas Tech 5-0 1,101
8 USC 3-1 1,137   Brigham Young 5-0 1,086
9 Brigham Young 5-0 1,103   USC 3-1 1,055
10 Georgia 4-1 1,014   Georgia 4-1 937
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Thanks to upsets losses by USC, [tag]Georgia[/tag], and [tag]Florida[/tag] the Longhorns have vaulted into the top five of both the AP and USA Today Coaches polls. [tag]Alabama[/tag] flew past the Horns after their win over the UGA but the easy win over [tag]Arkansas[/tag] was enough to move Texas up to spots to the number five ranking. Texas is relatively comfortably ahead of [tag]Penn State[/tag] in both polls, but rankings this week don’t matter much as Texas will prove itself over the next three weeks when they face [tag]Oklahoma[/tag] and [tag]Missouri[/tag] in consecutive games.

Check out this week’s rankings or view the top 10s below:

  AP Top 25   USA Today Poll
1 Oklahoma (43) 4-0 1,599   Oklahoma (57) 4-0 1,520
2 Alabama (21) 5-0 1,565   LSU (1) 4-0 1,399
3 LSU 4-0 1,466   Missouri 4-0 1,398
4 Missouri (1) 4-0 1,453   Alabama (2) 5-0 1,350
5 Texas 4-0 1,362   Texas (1) 4-0 1,310
6 Penn State 5-0 1,252   Penn State 5-0 1,146
7 Texas Tech 4-0 1,105   Brigham Young 4-0 1,054
8 Brigham Young 4-0 1,098   Texas Tech 4-0 1,047
9 USC 2-1 1,087   USC 2-1 990
10 South Florida 5-0 1,035   Georgia 4-1 888
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