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Coaches' Poll AP Poll Boise State finishes #4 behind Florida. Cincinnati is #8/#9. They didn't look like a Top 10 team to me (for reference, we dropped from #3 to #12 after getting whooped by Miami in the Cotton Bowl).

I noticed some things I found interesting. Perhaps you will as well. 73 total polls, 1503 teams listed: 1936-61 (20 teams ranked) 1962-67 (10 teams ranked) 1968-88 (20 teams ranked) 1989-current (25 teams ranked) 1) FBS Teams without a single final poll appearance: Akron, Ark St, Ball St, Buffalo, Central Florida, Central Michigan, UConn, Eastern Michigan, Florida Atlantic, Florida International, Idaho, Kent, ULL, ULM, LA-Tech, Memphis, Middle Tennessee St, Nevada Las-Vegas, Nevada-Reno, New Mexico, North Texas, Northern Illinois, San Jose

I've put a lot of thought (and even more teeth gnashing and head-beating) into this post. I've tried to support it with data, but by necessity a lot of it is conjecture, although well founded in my opinion. If anybody can hack the numbers better, I would like to hear them. The November 30 BCS, which had OU 2nd and UT 3rd, drove a lot of the endgame of the 2008 season in college football. It

Texas is a unanimous number one. Other Big 12 teams: 4. OU 7. Oklahoma State 8. Texas Tech 16. Missouri 19. Kansas

Here's a piece of trivia that will only be good to use until Saturday (I think). The first game Texas lined up as the #1 team in the nation during the regular season and the last regular season game that the Horns entered as the top team in the nation have both ended in a tie. In 1941 Texas was the newly minted #1 when the Horns were held to a 7-7 by Baylor in Waco. The

Get used to it, SEC fans. OK, I actually think the Big 12 deserves a meaningful discussion with the SEC, but since every SEC blogger and bulletin board posse have set Google Alerts for all discussions regarding best conference, I figured I’d poke them in the eye so their dander would be up by the time they made it over to Barking Carnival to defend their flag. I do expect that by the

There is some fine football to be had this weekend, so fret not Carnivalers. Here's your comprehensive game-watching guide to maximal gridiron enjoyment. I've included all interesting national games and every Big 12 contest (even the dull ones) broken down by time slots: Friday evening Fri, Sep 12 KU at USF 7:00 p.m. ESPN2 Kansas Football Preview from Barking Carnival's State of the Union series A great matchup of Anti-Brands.

This post was prompted by the good discussion taking place on Scipio Tex's Oklahoma Preview. The conversation starter was the fact that my ratings had 1971 as Oklahoma's best team despite their loss to Nebraska. While you can read the rest of the discussion there, the short answer is that the 1971 season was full of great teams. Here is the final Top 15 in my 1971 ratings, which includes all

Pollspeak has a cool feature called Pollstalker that allows you see how the voters ranked your favorite team in the AP Poll. So I was naturally curious to see who likes Texas more than others. Or more accurately, who doesn't like Texas enough. Three dudes had Texas ranked seventh: Matt McCoy of WTVN-AM Radio (OH), Maurice Patton of The Tennessean and Tom Keegan of the Lawrence Journal World. Good answer. Good answer. I

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Anti-Parity and the 1971 College Football Season

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