2010 Week 9 College Football Ratings and Rankings; Oregon #1, TCU #2, Boise State #3; Auburn #10!

And Oregon is still #1.  Not only that, their rating margin over #2 TCU is now nearly 7 points.  According to my computer, they are the far and away clear #1, BCS be damned.  And so far my computer is picking games between BCS top-25 teams 2 games better than the BCS rankings.  Full rankings on the site, but top-30 below for quick reference.

There is naturally some movement behind with Missouri and Michigan State dropping and Nebraska and Iowa moving up, but OU suffers from the Missouri loss having just lost to them last week.  Stanford's whitewashing of UW also moves them up a few spots back to #4.  With their only loss on the road to far and away #1 Oregon, hard to argue with that.

What about Auburn you say?  They did move up some with their win, but are only #10.  That may not pass the smell test, but when you look at their performance chart you can begin to understand.



Auburn is winning, but especially early in the season was not doing so impressively.  Mississippi State at #30 isn't a bad team, but Auburn won by only 3, Clemson is only 4-4 and #43 and Auburn won by only 3 at home, the win over #17 and 6-2 South Carolina was a little better by 8, but then they win by only 3 against a #56 and 4-5 Kentucky?  Their most impressive win was against 6-2 and #25 Arkansas.  So they are winning, but not in dominating fashion against any of their quality opponents, and they have close wins against bad opponents, even at home.

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The computer continued it prowess in picking games going 30-23-1 in all games and 2-1 in locks meaning 3 consecutive winning weeks.  After some of the strangeness early in the year, the computer seems dialed in.  See the prediction performance for more details.

Rank	Team	Rating	Record	Schedule	Change
Rank	Team	Rating	Record	Schedule	Change
1	Oregon	93.332	8-0	65.628	+0, +1.717
2	TCU	86.391	9-0	63.364	+0, -0.473
3	Boise St	84.309	7-0	63.233	+1, -0.447
4	Stanford	83.177	7-1	70.011	+2, +0.860
5	Nebraska	83.164	7-1	66.546	+4, +1.721
6	Iowa	82.781	6-2	65.920	+5, +1.661
7	Utah	81.770	8-0	60.311	-2, -1.901
8	Missouri	81.653	7-1	68.662	-5, -3.375
9	Arizona	81.272	7-1	67.188	+3, +0.190
10	Auburn	80.473	9-0	67.665	+3, -0.590
11	Oklahoma	80.418	7-1	69.449	-4, -1.538
12	Alabama	80.355	7-1	67.036	+3, -0.055
13	Ohio State	80.010	8-1	62.308	-5, -1.945
14	Oregon St	79.148	4-3	76.978	+10, +2.399
15	Southern Cal	78.947	5-3	72.095	-1, -1.745
16	Wisconsin	78.482	7-1	63.538	+1, -1.251
17	South Carolina	77.766	6-2	67.216	+4, -1.296
18	Oklahoma St	77.341	7-1	65.455	+8, +1.696
19	Michigan St	77.156	8-1	65.267	-9, -4.169
20	LSU	77.049	7-1	67.195	+2, -0.860
21	Florida St	77.047	6-2	66.408	-3, -2.570
22	Nevada	76.520	7-1	60.502	-2, -2.590
23	Virginia Tech	76.174	6-2	63.504	+0, -0.654
24	California	76.121	4-4	72.312	-8, -3.643
25	Arkansas	75.824	6-2	66.408	+2, +0.198
26	Arizona St	75.821	4-4	70.783	-1, -0.730
27	Miami FL	75.226	5-3	67.838	-8, -4.320
28	Pittsburgh	74.367	5-3	66.598	+1, -0.424
29	Florida	74.297	5-3	68.793	+4, -0.024
30	Mississippi St	74.213	7-2	64.357	-2, -0.763