College Football Week 9 Ratings and Rankings - The top-4 emerge

This week's ratings and rankings are now posted.

And K-state is #1 for the 4th week in a row with a new #2 in Alabama close behind.  Oregon stays at #3, jumped by Alabama, but is just over 0.2 behind so a dead heat.  After the top-3, things drop off a bit but a new #4 in Notre Dame up 9 spots is right there.  The computer finally was impressed at Notre dame went on the road and won against a quality opponent by a good score.

The Big-12 as a whole dropped due to OU losing to Notre Dame, not always a lot of ranking spots but in the ratings as every team other than Oklahoma State and Kansas lost ratings points.  They are still the strongest conference as just one game doesn't override all the other good work they've done out of conference.

You can see the BCS compatible algorithm ratings and rankings as well where K-State is #1 and here they are followed very closely by Notre Dame at #2.  Interesting, Florida drops ratings points but only falls 1 spot to #3 ahead of Alabama.  This is based largely on strength of schedule and that will change somewhat after Bama goes to LSU next weekend.

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

Rank	Team	Rating	Record	Schedule	Change
Rank	Team	Rating	Record	Schedule	Change
1	Kansas St	97.012	8-0	72.910	+0, -3.972
2	Alabama	96.797	8-0	73.106	+2, +1.161
3	Oregon	96.584	8-0	67.376	+0, -0.574
4	Notre Dame	90.083	8-0	76.169	+9, +6.827
5	Oklahoma	89.887	5-2	73.393	-3,-10.748
6	Florida	88.678	7-1	77.255	-1, -3.381
7	Texas Tech	85.383	6-2	75.558	-1, -5.346
8	Oregon St	84.718	6-1	76.672	+3, +0.255
9	LSU	84.642	7-1	70.195	-2, -1.102
10	Southern Cal	84.588	6-2	71.842	+4, +1.759
11	South Carolina	84.323	7-2	73.991	-3, -0.563
12	Arizona	84.294	5-3	76.159	+0, +0.999
13	Texas A&M	83.868	6-2	71.899	-3, -0.652
14	Georgia	83.730	7-1	71.986	+10, +4.352
15	Florida St	83.099	8-1	61.029	+2, +1.646
16	Stanford	82.979	6-2	76.318	-1, +0.749
17	Oklahoma St	82.470	5-2	67.027	+1, +1.105
18	Ohio State	81.885	9-0	68.810	+11, +4.113
19	Texas	81.042	6-2	74.734	-10, -3.549
20	Utah St	80.952	7-2	66.834	+5, +1.620
21	Mississippi St	80.467	7-1	65.386	+0, -0.286
22	Iowa St	80.429	5-3	75.543	-2, -0.667
23	Arizona St	80.163	5-3	71.463	-4, -0.939
24	Clemson	79.218	7-1	65.877	+6, +1.978
25	Brigham Young	79.126	5-4	71.274	+9, +3.026