2010 Week 2 College Football Rankings and Recap; Alabama #1, Florida #2, Oregon #3, Boise State drops to #11

It is still very early, and some bizarre changes can (and did) occur in the ratings and rankings, but here is where things stand after week 2 of the college football season.

The full rankings are on the web-site, but the top-30 is below for quick reference.

Alabama stays #1 and recovers some of the points they lost from playing a weak opponent last week and has a sizable lead over new #2 Florida and #3 Oregon.  Oregon's pounding of Tennessee on the road gave them a healthy boost and Florida got a boost too leap frogging TCU, Boise State, and Ohio State.

But bizarre surprise of the week is Air Force jumping to #5.  But they soundly beat a good BYU team who had beat a Washington team that soundly beat a Syracuse team.  Air Force gets their chance to justify a high ranking when they visit #11 Oklahoma this weekend.  Iowa, Stanford, and Cal also make big jumps up into the top-13 after convincing wins.

Virginia Tech, and by extension Boise State, was the big loser of the week after an embarrassing loss to James Madison.  They drop 18 spots and are saved from justifiably dropping farther by the computer still using last years end of season rating a bit.  As a result Boise State drops to #8 and their strong non-conference opponent just dropped the ball for them.  Georgia Tech and Florida State actually fell further after their poor losses, but Virginia Tech's loss has more meaning overall.

Picking games, the computer went 25-19 against the spread and 37-7 picking winners while Vegas went 38-6 picking winners.  Not bad considering the computer is just getting going.  Full prediction performance here.

Rank	Team	Rating	Record	Schedule	Change
Rank	Team	Rating	Record	Schedule	Change
1	Alabama	92.195	2-0	65.550	+0, +4.215
2	Florida	88.192	2-0	58.745	+4, +5.862
3	Oregon	86.058	2-0	62.024	+5, +5.562
4	TCU	84.209	2-0	62.669	-2, -0.756
5	Air Force	84.070	2-0	53.487	+49,+13.550
6	Ohio State	83.229	2-0	66.802	-1, +0.724
7	Iowa	82.881	2-0	52.466	+15, +6.964
8	Boise St	81.690	1-0	77.172	-5, -2.689
9	LSU	81.497	2-0	70.851	-2, +0.574
10	Stanford	81.237	2-0	61.156	+21, +5.865
11	Oklahoma	80.302	2-0	65.661	+19, +4.875
12	Texas	80.199	2-0	59.411	-3, +0.246
13	California	79.567	2-0	51.849	+22, +5.727
14	Nebraska	79.508	2-0	54.740	+13, +3.869
15	South Carolina	79.451	2-0	66.662	-4, +1.954
16	Arizona	79.209	2-0	57.198	+3, +2.831
17	Pittsburgh	78.562	1-1	71.192	-4, +1.317
18	Arkansas	78.354	2-0	54.320	-6, +0.915
19	Texas A&M	78.146	2-0	59.449	+22, +4.924
20	Utah	77.634	2-0	66.018	-5, +0.952
21	Auburn	77.193	2-0	63.761	+5, +1.510
22	Virginia Tech	77.172	0-2	77.622	-18, -5.378
23	Southern Cal	77.092	2-0	66.527	-5, +0.704
24	Texas Tech	76.937	2-0	62.562	-3, +0.814
25	Penn State	76.825	1-1	73.665	-9, +0.187
26	North Carolina	75.602	0-1	81.497	+7, +0.287
27	Oregon St	75.392	0-1	84.209	-3, -0.377
28	Miami FL	75.219	1-1	64.268	-3, -0.475
29	Brigham Young	74.570	1-1	78.790	-9, -1.783
30	Georgia	74.557	1-1	67.743	-13, -2.060

Updated 9/12 to correct ratings error