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College Football – BCS Finalists Keep Rolling Over Everyone
The best teams in the nation, Alabama, LSU and Oregon kept on winning although the Tigers struggled to come out of Auburn with their perfect record intact, while Kansas State upset Oklahoma to prove who are the real beasts of the Big 12, while Notre Dame delivered another tough blow to Michigan with a 13-6 win and going 4-0 for the first time in a decade.
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2012 College Football Season – Week 3 Rankings
Back to the SEC, Alabama-LSU 1-2 thing. This was the case last season on 8 of the rankings, although LSU were the number one team until they lost in the national championship game. The big moves this time were Notre Dame, moving up 11 spots after beating Michigan State; and Stanford, stunning USC 21-14, making a 12 place climb.
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2012 College Football Rankings – Week 2
While the national title contenders had no problems what so ever in week 2; Alabama cruising against Western Kentucky, USC putting up big numbers against Syracuse and LSU demolishing Washington, the big move was #8 Arkansas losing at home to Louisiana Monroe, dropping out of the rankings for the second biggest fall in the history of the AP Poll, behind Michigan’s fall from #5 in 2007.
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2012 College Football Rankings – Week 1
The national champions opened where they deserve to be, at #1. The Alabama Crimson Tide beat Michigan 41-14 in the featured opening game of week 1, giving them most first place votes after the USC Trojans were the preseason number one team in the nation. Their 49-10 win over Hawai’i wasn’t good enough to keep them from falling to number 2 in the rankings.
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Preseason College Football Rankings – Worth Anything?
The preseason college football rankings for the 2012 season came out this week and guess what – LSU, who led the rankings for most of last season and Alabama, #2 for most of last season and the national champions, took the top two spots once again. SEC dominance doesn’t change, it just got stronger. Problems is these preseason rankings usually don’t mean much.
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2012 College Football Rankings – Preseason Edition
Nothing changed from last season; LSU and Alabama 1 and 2, SEC above the rest with 5 teams in the top 10 in a season of many changes that sees TCU and West Virginia in their new Big 12 home already among the preseason top 25, while USC make a return to the upper echelon of College Football, this time without Pete Carroll and hopefully no scandals.
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2012 College Basketball Rankings – Final Coaches Poll
Kentucky won the national title for the 8th time and the first since 1998, and the coaches found just enough time to squeeze in another final poll to determine who were the top 25 teams in the nation with the tournament as another way to gauge the field.
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2012 College Basketball Rankings – Final Edition
Kentucky have been the number one team in the nation since January, but lost to Vanderbiltm shockingly, in the SEC finals, which really didn’t change anything regarding their rankings in the poll and the tournament seeding, getting the #1 seed in the South Regional, waiting for the first winner from the first four to join the dance and meet them in the first round.
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2011 College Football Rankings – Final Edition
Surprised by the BCS Championship game turning in one of its worst ratings ever? I guess the public doesn’t like rematches, even between two powerhouses like Alabama and LSU. A playoff seems closer than ever, or anything that is a change of the current system, that seems to alienate more and more fans from Bowl season.
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2011 College Football Rankings – Week 14
LSU did what it had to do to remain number one in the nation with a 42-10 win over Georgia in the SEC Championship Game. Oklahoma State won the Big 12 with a huge 44-10 win over Oklahoma to win the Big 12. They remained at number 3 in the AP rankings, meaning Alabama, despite not playing, stay as the number 2 team in the nation and will probably, despite already losing to LSU this season, play the Tigers for the national title.