[net.sport.football] USA TODAY College 10/21/85

45223wc@mtuxo.UUCP (w.cambre) (10/22/85)

Here's the USA Today - CNN Top 25 for 10/21/85

RANK   TEAM        Record   VOTING POINTS     last week
----   ---------   -------  --------------    ---------
1)     Iowa        6-0      800               2
2)     Penn State  6-0      724               4
3)     Florida     5-0-1    716               5
4)     Michigan    5-1      709               1
5)     Nebraska    5-1      655               8
6)     Auburn      5-1      650               7
7)     BeWhyYou    6-1      592               9
8)     Air Force   7-0      552              10
9)     Oklahoma St 4-1      495              11
10)    Florida St  5-1      466              13
11)    Ohio State  5-1      450              12
12)    Oklahoma    3-1      446               3
13)    Miami, FL   5-1      422              18
14)    Tennessee   3-1-1    368              19
15)    Arkansas    5-1      358               6
16)    UCLA        5-1-1    327              17
17)    Baylor      6-1      325              16
18)    Texas       4-1      301              23
19)    LSU         4-1      264              20
20)    Minnesota   5-1      145              25
21)    Alabama     4-2      141              14
22)    Arizona     5-1      131              22
23)    Georgia     4-1-1    122              15
24)    Maryland    4-2       85              24
25)    Colorado    5-1       68              NR
This week's big games:

#2 Penn State vs. West Virginia (4-1-1)
#5 Nebraska vs. #25 Colorado
#7 BYU vs. Texas-El Paso (0-6)  **  This should be a cliff hanger!
#9 Oklahoma State at Kansas (5-2)
#11 Ohio State vs. #20 Minnesota
#14 Tennessee vs. Georgia Tech (4-2)
#18 Texas at SMU (3-2)
#23 Georgia vs. Kentucky (4-2)

This is obviously the time of year when alot of teams have
their homecoming games.

Some of the blowouts from last week (probably all homecomings):
Florida State 76 - Tulsa 14
Florida 45 - S.W. Louisiana 0
Navy 56 - Lafayette 14
Arizona 41 - San Jose St. 0

Quiz time: What team has already defeated three teams in the top 20,
           and still has to play three more currently  in the
           top 25?

HINT:                     Go Gators!

dday@gymble.UUCP (Dennis Doubleday) (10/23/85)

In article <1052@mtuxo.UUCP> 45223wc@mtuxo.UUCP (w.cambre) writes:
>Here's the USA Today - CNN Top 25 for 10/21/85
>
>RANK   TEAM        Record   VOTING POINTS     last week
>----   ---------   -------  --------------    ---------
>1)     Iowa        6-0      800               2
>2)     Penn State  6-0      724               4
>3)     Florida     5-0-1    716               5
>4)     Michigan    5-1      709               1
>5)     Nebraska    5-1      655               8
>6)     Auburn      5-1      650               7
>7)     BeWhyYou    6-1      592               9
>8)     Air Force   7-0      552              10
>9)     Oklahoma St 4-1      495              11
>10)    Florida St  5-1      466              13
>11)    Ohio State  5-1      450              12
>12)    Oklahoma    3-1      446               3
>13)    Miami, FL   5-1      422              18

I'm an Oklahoma Sooner fan from way back, but I nevertheless have
this question:  Why is Miami, FL getting so little respect from the
pollsters?  Isn't their only loss to somebody like Florida?  Come on!
This team won a national championship only two years ago and they now
get ranked *behind* an Oklahoma team (with a less impressive record)
that they just pushed all over the field??!! **IN NORMAN, OK, no less.**
I would be angry if that happened to my team.
    The Sooners are going to have to try to pick up the pieces after
the loss of QB Troy Aikman for the season.  Jamielle Holieway, an
untested freshman, is the new starter, which doesn't bode well for
Oklahoma the rest of the way, even though Holieway looks like he could
be very good *someday*.  Maybe the defense can carry OU to the Big
Eight title and an automatic Orange Bowl bid.
    By the way, does anybody else out there hate conference-bowl tie-ups?
Each year, the fans are robbed of the best match-ups by this system.  If
we're not going to have a playoff system (which I'm not sure is a good
idea, anyway), then we could at least have a bowl selection system which 
abolished all tie-ups and forced bowls to wait until the end of the 
regular season to offer bowl bids.  I'm sure the Big Ten is tired of
playing the Pac Ten every year anyway :-).


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