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It’s that time of year where the wailing and gnashing of teeth begins – the first release of the BCS standings. The BCS is around for this year and one more, and then we shall finally have a playoff. But this is the system that we have now, so let’s take a closer look at the standings to see what we can see.<\/p>\n
This is the first time that #1 Alabama<\/strong> occupies the top spot in the first week of the BCS standings. After quite a few players moved on from a defense last year that finished first in practically every major statistical category, a lot of people thought the defense would regress this year. Alabama’s defense is currently first in practically every major statistical category. To finish first in every team defensive statistic for two straight years may very well be unprecedented.<\/p>\n The very first surprise comes with #2 Florida<\/strong>. It has been a meteoric rise for Florida from the beginning of the year, when they were ranked #23.\u00a0 For what it’s worth, when Auburn won the national championship in 2010, they started #23, but it took them until week 10 – the third week of the BCS standings – to reach #2.\u00a0 The computers love the Gators; they have the best computer ranking of all the teams. They also are the only BCS top-10 team to give two other teams their only loss (LSU and Texas A&M).<\/p>\n #3 Oregon<\/strong> doesn’t have to worry too much about missing out on a title chance due to the two schools above them; if they win out, they will go to the BCS Championship game for the second time in three years.\u00a0 The computers don’t like the Ducks at all – their highest ranking in a computer poll is 3rd, and their second-highest is 6th<\/strong> – but they should get a good boost by playing Arizona State, USC, Oregon State, and the South winner in the Pac-12 Championship provided they win out. Oregon hasn’t scored less than 42 points in a game all year so far.<\/p>\n Other things of note:<\/p>\n Congratulations to Mark<\/strong>, who won week 7 with 166 points. Bamarock<\/strong> and maestro<\/strong> tied for second place with 162 points.<\/p>\n Standings after seven weeks (dropping “two worst” weeks)…<\/p>\n There’s a giant slate of 21 games this week! A lot of points will be at stake, so this week is extremely important! The first game this week is Oregon at Arizona State, Thursday, October 18 @ 9 PM ET<\/strong>, so make sure to get your picks in by then!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s that time of year where the wailing and gnashing of teeth begins – the first release of the BCS standings. The BCS is around for this year and one more, and then we shall finally have a playoff. But this is the system that we have now, so let’s take a closer look at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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\n 1st<\/sup><\/td>\n gatorbamalover<\/td>\n 1093<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n T-2nd<\/sup><\/td>\n Allison<\/td>\n 1090<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n T-2nd<\/sup><\/td>\n AUBrian<\/td>\n 1090<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 4th<\/sup><\/td>\n MarylandTwerp<\/td>\n 1089<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 5th<\/sup><\/td>\n maestro<\/td>\n 1086<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n T-6th<\/sup><\/td>\n Crimson Gator<\/td>\n 1084<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n T-6th<\/sup><\/td>\n jagrag<\/td>\n 1084<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 8th<\/sup><\/td>\n Rocky Tide<\/td>\n 1083<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 9th<\/sup><\/td>\n CUTigers<\/td>\n 1080<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n T-10th<\/sup><\/td>\n BEVO<\/td>\n 1077<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n T-10th<\/sup><\/td>\n The Tradition<\/td>\n 1077<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n