College Football Week 11 Ratings and Rankings - Oregon remains #1, Alabama only drops to #3

This week's ratings and rankings are now posted.

This week's #1 is the same in Oregon, but there are some changes behind them.  Kansas State moves to up #2 replacing Alabama, but the Crimson Tide, while losing over 4 ratings points, only falls to #3 because of the big lead in ratings points they had.  Oklahoma was supposed to beat Baylor by more than 8 at home and as a result drops 2 spots to #6 allowing Florida, despite losing ratings points, and Texas A&M, to move ahead of them.

Notre Dame, who my computer has never really liked, has a closer than expected game, even with the lower expectations, with Boston College and loses ratings points and falls to #8.

The BCS compatible algorithm ratings and rankings have some changes too with Notre Dame falling from #1 to #3 simply because they played a weak opponent.  This is a clear example of how the rules the BCS has for the computers aren't exactly fair as regardless of the score, Notre Dame was in a lose lose situation by having to play a weak opponent.  The result is K-State is up to #1 and even Florida moves ahead of ND to #2 because their close win, the margin of victory doesn't count with this algorithm, was against a stronger opponent than Notre Dame's, didn't hurt them as much.

Oregon does move up to #4 in the BCS algorithm ahead of Alabama based on the loss.  Oregon will be helped in coming weeks by finally playing some stronger opponents.  And thanks to Alabama losing, may not be in the position of being left out of the BCS picture like they were last week.

The top-25 is below, full ratings on the site.

Rank	Team	Rating	Record	Schedule	Change
Rank	Team	Rating	Record	Schedule	Change
1	Oregon	97.139	10-0	71.338	+0, -0.437
2	Kansas St	92.822	10-0	73.146	+1, -3.018
3	Alabama	91.660	9-1	75.471	-1, -4.802
4	Florida	87.967	9-1	76.876	+1, -1.936
5	Texas A&M	87.778	8-2	74.756	+3, +0.785
6	Oklahoma	87.050	7-2	72.725	-2, -3.019
7	LSU	86.836	8-2	73.713	+0, -0.398
8	Notre Dame	86.158	10-0	73.481	-2, -2.523
9	Southern Cal	86.011	7-3	74.919	+3, +0.966
10	Georgia	85.732	9-1	72.622	+0, -0.987
11	South Carolina	85.332	8-2	74.303	+0, -1.075
12	Oregon St	85.221	7-2	78.358	-3, -1.499
13	Stanford	83.287	8-2	75.258	+2, +0.077
14	Oklahoma St	82.727	6-3	70.954	+3, -0.267
15	Florida St	82.697	9-1	62.768	-2, -1.875
16	Texas	82.638	8-2	74.111	+0, -0.417
17	Ohio State	82.357	10-0	68.183	-3, -1.455
18	Clemson	81.889	9-1	66.844	+0, -0.866
19	Utah St	81.706	8-2	66.659	+1, -0.626
20	Arizona	81.374	6-4	75.385	+2, -0.683
21	Nebraska	80.288	8-2	70.513	+3, -0.471
22	UCLA	79.737	8-2	72.259	+1, -1.667
23	Arizona St	79.610	5-5	75.516	-2, -2.699
24	Wisconsin	79.572	7-3	70.351	+5, +0.962
25	Texas Tech	79.535	7-3	72.615	-6, -2.959