Versus Ranked teams - week 15

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WEEK FIFTEEN

OHIO STATE beat #13 Wisconsin by 59 = 72 points
OREGON beat #7 Arizona by 38 = 57 points
ALABAMA beat #16 Missouri by 29 = 39 points
BAYLOR beat #9 Kansas State by 11 = 28 points
GEORGIA TECH lost to #4 Florida State by 2 = 20 points
FLORIDA STATE beat #11 Georgia Tech by 2 = 17 points
KANSAS STATE lost to #6 Baylor by 11 = 9 points
OKLAHOMA STATE beat #20 Oklahoma by 3 = 9 points

Comment: Ohio State’s 72 points vs. Wisconsin was the best performance against a ranked team this season, topping Alabama’s 64 points when they beat Texas A&M by the same score. Were teams “rolling up scores” to impress the committee. Art Briles said he through about it against Kansas State. But I don’t think an extra score would have helped Baylor. I’m also not sure you could accuse Ohio State or Oregon of rolling it up, even though they won by big margins. Oregon was ahead 44-7 after three quarters and last scored on a ten play drive ending with a 19 yard run with 4:12 left. Ohio State was u scored the most fourth quarter points with 21. But they came in ahead only 21-13 so they were still worried about losing the game. One score came on the first play of the fourth quarter and their last 11 plays, including the two scoring plays, were runs. TCU was up only 17-3 at the half and had a 31 points third quarter. Their last score came with 12:34 left in the fourth. They got the ball twice after that. The first time they drove to the ISU 6where they tried for it on fourth down and got stopped, rather than kicking a field goal . There’s an eternal debate as to what is the best thing to do there. On the final possession, it was nothing but “victory plays”. Big scores don’t mean the score was “run up”. They just mean that one team was a lot better than the other one.


CUMULATIVE POINTS
171 Alabama
148 Oregon
139 Georgia
135 Texas Christian
129 Arkansas
115 Mississippi State
111 Mississippi
110 Ohio State
104 Auburn
97 UCLA

93 Arizona State and Baylor
92 Arizona
86 West Virginia
75 Texas A& M
72 Georgia Tech and Wisconsin
64 Florida State
62 Stanford
56 Louisiana State
52 Florida
43 Boston College

41 Texas
40 Kansas State and So. California
38 Utah and Virginia Tech
37 South Carolina
36 Northwestern
35 Notre Dame
28 Oklahoma State and Oregon State and Virginia
23 Utah State
21 Kansas
20 Minnesota and Missouri

19 Clemson, Miami and Tennessee
17 Indiana, Texas Tech and Washington State
16 East Carolina and Michigan State
15 Temple
14 Washington
13 Louisville and North Carolina
11 Kentucky, Nebraska and Oklahoma
10 Duke, Navy and North Carolina State
9 Syracuse
8 Iowa and Memphis

6 Michigan and Penn State
4 Navy and Purdue
3 Western Kentucky
2 California and Iowa State
1 San Diego State

Here’s a short list of the undefeated and one loss teams, (excluding Marshall, who’s not a national title contender).
171 Alabama
148 Oregon
135 Texas Christian
110 Ohio State
93 Baylor
64 Florida State

I re-figured these teams using their games against CURRENTLY ranked teams, using last week’s committee ranking.

160 Oregon
102 Ohio State
95 Alabama
94 Baylor
66 Texas Christian
47 Florida State