[2002] Week 5 Coaches Poll

[subsequent]

Position	Movement	Team	Record	Votes
1	--	Western Michigan (3)	5-0	143
2	↑1	Western Kentucky (1)	4-0	134
3	--	Texas State (1)	5-0	132
4	--	Alabama (1)	4-1	123
5	↑6	Nevada	5-0	121
6	↓1	Missouri	4-0	118
7	↑2	Old Dominion	4-0	117
8	↓1	Kansas State	5-0	116
9	↓5	Central Michigan	4-0	107
10	↑3	Kentucky	3-1	94
11	↑1	Michigan State	3-0	84
12	↑3	TCU	3-1	83
13	↑4	Wake Forest	3-1	65
14	n/a	Miami (FL)	4-1	58
15	↑7	Illinois	3-1	56
16	↓2	Texas A&M	3-2	45
17	↑2	Baylor	3-1	39
18	n/a	New Mexico	3-1	39
19	↑4	Arizona	3-1	32
20	↓3	Louisville	4-1	30
21	n/a	Kansas	2-1	28
22	↓14	Tennessee	4-1	27
23	n/a	San Jose State	4-1	24
24	n/a	Nebraska	3-1	19
25	↓15	Stanford	3-1	18

 

Also receiving votes: Colorado (17), Louisiana (16), Oklahoma State (14), Tulane (13), LSU (9), UCF (8), Louisiana Tech (7), Pittsburgh (4), Colorado State (3), NC State (2), UCLA (1), Washington (1), Wyoming (1)

Edited August 23, 2022 by subsequent

[DarthJarJar]

Glad to see the voters finally got something right

[Weeze]

Why doesn’t Florida have any votes?

[Bundy]

If we ranked all the way to 127 you would

[Ezaco]

My formula was slightly tweaked to better account for wins (with emphasis on road wins and wins over Coaches Poll ranked teams). So there's some drastic movement in my poll.

 

 

Team	My Rank	My Previous Rank	Change
Western Michigan	1	1	-
Western Kentucky	2	12	+10
Kansas State	3	11	+8
Old Dominion	3	1	-2
Nevada	5	1	-4
Kentucky	6	18	+12
Alabama	7	5	-2
Missouri	8	10	+2
Texas A&M	9	16	+7
Central Michigan	10	6	-4
Louisville	11	7	-4
Texas State	12	25	+13
San Jose State	13	9	-4
Illinois	14	15	1
TCU	15	48	++33
Tulane	16	8	-8
LSU	17	37	+20
Miami (FL)	18	37	+19
Louisiana Tech	19	45	+26
New Mexico	20	21	+1
Tennessee	20	13	-7
Michigan State	22	44	+22
Colorado	23	23	-
NC State	24	46	+22
UCLA	24	31	+7

[tsweezy]

Kentucky above both Missouri and Alabama? Spicy

[Ezaco]

La Formulatio doesn't lie.

[Piercewise1]

My second poll, but I missed week 5 so I won't bother posting the change from last time. No formulas here, purely qualitative, but it looks like I'm not horribly far off.

 

Rank	Team	Record
1	Texas State	5-0
2	Western Kentucky	4-0
3	Missouri	4-0
4	Western Michigan	5-0
5	Central Michigan	4-0
6	Kansas State	5-0
7	Kentucky	3-1
8	Alabama	4-1
9	Nevada	5-0
10	Old Dominion	4-0
11	Michigan State	3-0
12	TCU	3-1
13	Baylor	3-1
14	Wake Forest	3-1
15	Miami FL	4-1
16	San Jose St	4-1
17	Tennessee	4-1
18	Illinois	3-1
19	Kansas	2-1
20	New Mexico	3-1
21	Nebraska	3-1
22	Arizona	3-1
23	Stanford	3-1
24	Louisville	4-1
25	Wyoming	3-1

 

A couple quick hits:

• No one in my top 15 has lost to a team outside my top 10
  
• Texas State #1 based on two wins against top-15 competition
  
• WKU / Missouri #2 / #3 based on a top-10 win each (Alabama, Kentucky)
  
• Kentucky best of the 1-loss teams based on their top-15 win over Wake Forest
  
• Just outside of point range are 2-loss teams A&M, Notre Dame, Oklahoma St, and Bowling Green
  

I realize that this logic is recursive (Baylor/TCU are highly rated because they lost to #1, but Texas State is #1 because they beat highly rated Baylor/TCU) but there's only so much research I can do for 30+ teams.

[Jieret]

WESTERN DIRECTIONAL IS BESTERN DIRECTIONAL

[TuscanSota]

Stanford from 10 to 25 seems a bit extreme since they only lose by a score to Notre Dame on the road.

[SageBow]

My Poll from this week, results of the teams and how they moved on my own poll.

 

1	Alabama Crimson Tide	W 40-14 Purdue	--
2	Western Michigan Broncos	W 34-14 Ball State	--
3	Texas State Bobcats	W 35-20 App State	--
4	Western Kentucky Hilltoppers	W 42-6 Marshall	--
5	Old Dominion Monarchs	W 43-3 New Mexico State	?2
6	Nevada Wolf Pack	W 27-0 Fresno State	?5
7	Wake Forest Demon Deacons	W 35-3 Arkansas State	?6
8	Central Michigan Chippewas	W 31-21 Toledo	?2
9	Kansas State Wildcats	W 27-13 Oklahoma State	?4
10	TCU Horned Frogs	W 50-13 Iowa State	?4
11	Missouri Tigers	W 31-21 Florida	?2
12	Michigan State Spartans	W 55-10 Minnesota	?3
13	Kentucky Wildcats	W 26-7 Vanderbilt	?6
14	Illinois Fighting Illini	W 17-3 Northern Illinois	?4
15	Miami (FL) Hurricanes	W 26-7 North Carolina	?8
16	New Mexico Lobos	W 24-17 Colorado State	?4
17	Texas A&M Aggies	L 33-35 Arkansas	?9
18	Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns	L 10-23 Coastal Carolina	?6
19	Oklahoma State Cowboys	L 13-27 Kansas State	?9
20	Arizona Wildcats	Bye	?4
21	Kansas Jayhawks	W 21-17 West Virginia	NR(?8)
22	Colorado Buffaloes	W 42-30 Oregon State	NR(?17)
23	Nebraska Cornhuskers	Bye	?2
24	Pittsburgh Panthers	W 13-6 Virginia Tech	NR (?8)
25	Baylor Bears	W 14-7 Oklahoma	NR (?8)

 

Dropped out:

#16 Tennessee Volunteers - L 14-20 Liberty

#17 Stanford Cardinal - L 21-28 Notre Dame

#21 Louisville - L 33-34 Syracuse

#22 Hawaii - L 0-6 San Jose State

 

Remember, if you don't like where you're at, just win baby

[Pumph]

every team that I have played so far has been ranked at some point this season. Next up, another one, rival SJSU.

[Weeze]

my heart </3

[Bundy]

LSU being 17th for you is wild considering they have 3 losses

[Ezaco]

LSU is 3-2, 2-0 in the SEC. A win over #5 Houston in week 1 may be slightly inflating their ranking.