The year’s first post-action college football rankings come out Tuesday, with the Associated Press Top 25 moving Alabama up to No. 1. Official BCS standings won’t start coming out until October.
2012 BlogPoll, Week 2: No. 1 Alabama Breaks Everything, Including Michigan
Sep 1, 2012; Arlington, TX, USA; Alabama Crimson Tide defensive end Jeoffrey Pagan (8) tackles Michigan Wolverines running back Vincent Smith (2) at Cowboys Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Matthew Emmons-US PRESSWIRE After clobbering Michigan on Saturday night, Alabama has taken the top spot in the BlogPoll, mirroring its one-spot rise in the AP Poll and USA TODAY coaches poll to displace USC from the throne.
The Crimson Tide did such a good job of wiping out Michigan, in fact -- the Wolverines tumble from No. 8 to 19 in this week’s poll -- that they received 81 first-place votes ... and more points per ballot than is mathematically possible, at 25.16. (It’s a glitch in the BlogPoll that is producing a phantom ballot, and we’re aware of it and getting it fixed, but ROLL TIDE, and September polls are silly anyway, right?)
Read Article >2012 College Football Rankings: Alabama, TCU Top Sagarin Ratings
PresswireJeff Sagarin’s computer ratings for the opening week of the 2012 college football season are now out at USA Today. The top 30 teams in Sagarin’s ELO-CHESS system, which is a component of the BCS standings, are listed below, with Alabama topping TCU, LSU, Oregon and Boise State in the top five.
The BCS-approved version of Sagarin’s ratings discounts margin of victory, leading to some weirdness. Still, there are some highly questionable allotments that have nothing to do with points scored. Boise State lost to a team it’s still ranked ahead of, for one thing, but I don’t really know what to tell you here. Also, TCU has yet to play a game this year.
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