2010 Week 3 College Football Rankings and Review; Alabama #1, Oregon #2, Stanford #3

With most teams now having played three games, we are beginning to get a clearer picture of where the teams stand.  The pre-season (end of last year) rating is now less than 25% of the rating and goes to almost zero after 4 games, so we now see what a teams performance from this year results in.

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

Alabama stays #1 and again recovers some of the points they lost from playing a weak opponent week 1 and has a sizable lead over new #2 Oregon and #3 Stanford.  Stanford and #4 Nebraska made big moves  after their dominating wins against BCS non-conference foes.

Arizona also makes a strong move after their statement win over Iowa, but the big move of the week is Nevada leaping to #15 after easily taking care of California.  Oklahoma State also makes a big move to #21.

Air Force, the surprise mover up of last week played better than Vegas thought, but still lost, and drops 9 spots.  Texas A&M drops 12 spots as does Oregon State after winning by less than expected at home against a not so great opponents.  But Cal is the big loser dropping 24 spots all the way to #37 after their loss to Nevada.

The BCS buster watch has TCU falling to #6 and Boise State to #9 after good wins, but they were just passed by teams having more dominating wins over stronger opponents.  Boise State is definitely helped by Nevada's win as that likely gives them another quality opponent late in the year and it will be on the road.  But Oregon State may not be as strong as they hoped.  Interestingly, Oregon State will be a common opponent for Boise State, TCU, Stanford, and Oregon, all teams presently in the top-9!

Picking games, the computer went 30-24 against the spread and 44-10 picking winners while Vegas went 42-12 picking winners.  Not bad considering the computer is just getting going.  Full prediction performance here.

Look for predictions and preview of the upcoming week here and on the web-site.

Rank	Team	Rating	Record	Schedule	Change
Rank	Team	Rating	Record	Schedule	Change
1	Alabama	93.185	3-0	66.898	+0, +0.990
2	Oregon	88.600	3-0	57.658	+1, +2.542
3	Stanford	87.354	3-0	65.772	+7, +6.117
4	Nebraska	86.459	3-0	61.628	+10, +6.951
5	Florida	85.814	3-0	65.709	-3, -2.377
6	TCU	84.522	3-0	63.381	-2, +0.313
7	LSU	83.920	3-0	71.123	+2, +2.423
8	Texas	82.989	3-0	64.904	+4, +2.790
9	Boise St	82.930	2-0	71.606	-1, +1.240
10	Ohio State	82.838	3-0	62.960	-4, -0.391
11	Arizona	82.618	3-0	64.799	+5, +3.409
12	Oklahoma	81.364	3-0	69.804	-1, +1.062
13	Iowa	80.523	2-1	61.643	-6, -2.358
14	Air Force	80.506	2-1	60.086	-9, -3.564
15	Nevada	80.443	3-0	57.886	+27, +7.972
16	Arkansas	80.375	3-0	60.565	+2, +2.021
17	South Carolina	79.998	3-0	64.737	-2, +0.547
18	Virginia Tech	78.408	1-2	73.945	+4, +1.236
19	Penn State	78.028	2-1	69.879	+5, +1.203
20	Auburn	76.358	3-0	67.095	+1, -0.835
21	Oklahoma St	76.325	3-0	60.131	+22, +4.449
22	Pittsburgh	76.243	1-1	66.564	-5, -2.319
23	Utah	76.075	3-0	60.834	-3, -1.559
24	Fresno St	75.415	2-0	66.319	+8, +1.518
25	North Carolina St	75.225	3-0	61.236	+11, +1.846
26	Miami FL	75.127	1-1	65.108	+1, -0.092
27	Southern Cal	75.028	3-0	65.982	+1, -0.138
28	Clemson	74.775	2-1	54.693	+11, +1.891
29	Florida St	74.132	2-1	64.260	+27, +4.404
30	Texas Tech	74.120	2-1	67.484	-7, -2.817