2010 Week 8 College Football Ratings and Rankings; Oregon #1, TCU #2, Missouri #3

And Oregon is still #1.  Full rankings on the site, but top-30 below for quick reference.

Oregon's margin over #2 TCU stays over four points, but is less than the nearly eight it was last week.  This is due to prior opponent ASU losing big to Cal and also Stanford's closer than expected win over WSU.

There is a new #3 in Missouri close behind TCU at #2.  Missouri replaces now #4 Boise State based on their win over Oklahoma.  The computer did pick the Missouri win and upset, one of the correct picks in a decent 28-22-1 week against the spread, but they still get moved up a bit based in part on Boise State dropping with some prior opponents doing more poorly than expected.

Utah makes a move up continuing their undefeated season at #5 and Ohio State bounces back too getting back into the top-10 at #8.

Cal makes the biggest move up in the top-30, 11 spots, and it is interesting to look at their performance chart as that is an effective way to see how schizophrenic they have been.

They've had no games that even overlap with their current rating.  They are either playing great (Colorado, UCLA, ASU), or poorly (Nevada, USC).  The Arizona loss was actually a pretty good result for them too.

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As noted above, the computer had a pretty good week going 28-22-1 against the spread, this after going 30-23 last week.  Picks meeting the lock criteria also went 3-1 after going 5-2 last week.  See the prediction performance for more details.

Rank	Team	Rating	Record	Schedule	Change
Rank	Team	Rating	Record	Schedule	Change
1	Oregon	91.615	7-0	64.135	+0, -2.961
2	TCU	86.864	8-0	64.802	+0, -0.006
3	Missouri	85.028	7-0	66.943	+2, +0.293
4	Boise St	84.756	6-0	64.287	-1, -1.685
5	Utah	83.671	7-0	59.314	+3, -0.151
6	Stanford	82.317	6-1	70.572	-2, -3.645
7	Oklahoma	81.956	6-1	72.177	-1, -2.371
8	Ohio State	81.955	7-1	64.486	+6, +0.982
9	Nebraska	81.443	6-1	66.320	+2, +0.112
10	Michigan St	81.325	8-0	63.629	-3, -2.574
11	Iowa	81.120	5-2	65.363	-2, -1.726
12	Arizona	81.082	6-1	66.663	+4, +0.687
13	Auburn	81.063	8-0	67.955	-3, -0.538
14	Southern Cal	80.692	5-2	70.095	-1, -0.458
15	Alabama	80.410	7-1	67.345	+0, -0.079
16	California	79.764	4-3	72.676	+11, +2.280
17	Wisconsin	79.733	7-1	65.233	+3, +0.244
18	Florida St	79.617	6-1	65.444	-1, -0.560
19	Miami FL	79.546	5-2	69.038	+6, +1.958
20	Nevada	79.110	6-1	62.837	+1, +0.087
21	South Carolina	79.062	5-2	69.269	-2, -0.864
22	LSU	77.909	7-1	68.030	-4, -2.027
23	Virginia Tech	76.828	6-2	64.293	+1, -1.214
24	Oregon St	76.749	3-3	78.134	-1, -1.401
25	Arizona St	76.551	3-4	74.343	-13, -4.732
26	Oklahoma St	75.645	6-1	64.607	-4, -2.703
27	Arkansas	75.626	5-2	67.579	+4, +0.136
28	Mississippi St	74.976	6-2	64.644	+1, -1.780
29	Pittsburgh	74.791	4-3	68.488	+6, +0.433
30	Clemson	74.578	4-3	62.130	+8, +0.794