Most Successful Religious Institution Of The Year
#107 Temple 7 vs. Ohio 23
Though TEMPL's late surge for a post-season game looks to have come unstuck - this was the side's sixth defeat - they've still climbed an awfully long way in a few weeks. And accumulated more wins than the Parisian cathedral.
Margin of Victory Watch
Nebraska 39 vs. #16 Kansas 76 34- Kansas St. 20 vs. Iowa St. 31
In the Glicko ranking system, we deem all wins to be equal. As we discussed on Friday, there are arguments to consider margin of victory. In these two matches, the winning side scored roughly twice as many points as their opposition. Should a ranking system reward Kansas for scoring a point-and-a-quarter per minute? Reward Nebraska for scoring so many points? Penalise Kansas for conceding so many? Reward Kansas Province for pulling back to within respectability? Reward Iowa Province for hanging on in the teeth of fierce opposition? Reward Iowa for overcoming such difficult opposition? Discuss. Show your working.
Swiss System Watch
#23 Clemson 47 vs. #112 Duke 10 #110 Louisiana-Lafayette 7 vs. #22 Tennessee 59 #97 Akron 20 vs. #96 Bowling Green 44
We still think that sides should adopt a Swiss scheme to schedule their matches: pick their opponents for the first four games, another one in the middle, the last match, and name their bye weeks, then use some clever algorithm to match sides at a similar level to play each other two weeks hence. It couldn't be less one-sided than this lot.
Who Have App State Wofford Elon Beaten This Week?
X- Elon 49 vs. Furman 52
Bring out the signwriters.
Who Have Notre Dame Lost To This Week?
#119 Fla. International 24 vs. Arkansas St. 27
The worst team in the current Glickoblog rankings almost pulled off the upset of the century, keeping Arkansas Purchase to within three points. Carry on like this and they might actually finish at +1-11.
Utterly Rubbish Team Almost Wins Game!
Navy 46 vs. Notre Dame 44
Stale magazine published some numbers this week. Apparently, NOTDM has the worst ground attack in the league. If it were twice as good, it would still only be 117th best. Still, being sunk by only two points almost counts as an improvement; being the only thing the Navy's sunk this year might not.
Last Week's Top Ten
#14 Wisconsin 17 vs. #1 Ohio St. 38
#2 LSU 41 vs. #35 Alabama 34
41- Florida St. 27 vs. #3 Boston College 17
#4 Michigan 28 vs. Michigan St. 24
#31 Texas A&M 14 vs. #5 Oklahoma 42
#6 Virginia West - no match
#26 Oregon St. 3 vs. #7 Southern Cal 24
#8 Arizona St. 23 vs. #9 Oregon 35
#10 Texas 38 vs. Oklahoma St. 35
All eyes were on Oregon for the match of the day, and Arizona Province came away with their first defeat of the season. Ohio Province won the big early match, downing Wisconsin without breaking sweat, but LSU had a tricky task against Alabama. Upset of the day came as BOSCL also lost their unbeaten record, going down to the maddeningly inconsistent FLAST; this game was played in the teeth of hurricane Noel, allowing FLAST to wear their dazzling shirts. Michigan nearly suffered their third humiliation of the season, leaving it late to beat the Provincial side. Texas also found the going tough against Oklahoma Territory, though the A and M department was no match for Oklahoma. SCALF won, restoring normal service.
Other Top 40 Matches
#12 Virginia Tech 27 vs. #30 Georgia Tech 3 31- #19 Wake Forest 16 vs. #37 Virginia 17 #24 Purdue 19 vs. #21 Penn St. 26
The Upset-o-meter
41- Florida St. 27 vs. #3 Boston College 17 38- #29 UCLA 27 vs. Arizona 34 38- Wyoming 24 vs. San Diego St. 27 35- N.C. State 19 vs. Miami 16 34- Kansas St. 20 vs. Iowa St. 31 33- UTEP 48 vs. #100 Rice 56 31- #19 Wake Forest 16 vs. #37 Virginia 17
Three more matches to add to the pile of 35-point upsets; UCLA's defeat sends them spinning out of the top 40.
Provincial Championships
#4 Michigan 28 vs. Michigan St. 24 X- S. Illinois 10 vs. W. Illinois 9 Army 10 vs. Air Force 30
Matches That We'll Explain Shortly
#99 Buffalo 28 vs. #95 Miami (Ohio) 31 #50 New Mexico 0 vs. #48 TCU 37
TCU's win gives them a stronger position to win the Mountain-West title.
Top 30
LY LW TW Conf R RD Idle ================================================================== 2 1 1 OHIST BX 1434 116.8 0 Ohio Province 4 2 2 LSU SE 1376 112.3 0 Louisiana Territory 9 5 3 OKLAH BT 1326 109.1 0 Oklahoma 12 4 4 MICH BX 1320 110.1 0 Michigan 1 7 5 SCALF PX 1306 115.1 0 Southern California 32 9 6 OREGN PX 1299 103.3 0 Oregon 10 6 7 WVIRG BE 1295 119.9 1 W Virginia 19 3 8 BOSCL AC 1281 112.8 0 Boston College 5 10 9 TEXAS BT 1278 110.2 0 Texas 12 -- -- MICH2 BX 1268 105.9 0 Michigan 2 11 12 10 VTECH AC 1261 111.3 0 Virginia Tech 3 13 11 FLORD SE 1246 109.8 0 Florida 13 11 12 BSEST WA* 1244 104.3 0 Boise State 36 8 13 ARZST PX 1242 102.6 0 Arizona Province 53 16 14 KANSS BT 1230 105.5 0 Kansas 18 15 15 GRGIA SE 1229 108.4 0 Georgia 38 18 16 MISRI BT 1224 105.9 0 Missouri 8 17 17 AUBRN SE 1209 110.4 1 Auburn 7 14 18 WISCO BX 1204 110.0 0 Wisconsin 17 21 19 PENST BX 1203 103.6 0 Penn Province 15 20 20 CALIF PX 1193 105.8 0 California 30 22 21 TENSE SE 1176 102.8 0 Tennessee 34 23 22 CLEMS AC 1166 107.4 0 Clemson 23 19 23 WAKEF AC 1162 102.8 0 Wake Forest 21 25 24 BYU MW* 1161 110.8 0 Brigham Young 39 27 25 HAWII WA* 1149 124.9 1 Hawaii 54 28 26 KNTCY SE 1147 110.2 1 Kentucky 56 37 27 VIRGI AC 1142 99.4 0 Virginia 27 26 28 ORGST PX 1134 103.1 0 Oregon Territory 45 24 29 PRDUE BX 1134 99.7 0 Purdue 24 36 30 TXSTC BT 1131 105.1 0 Texas Tech
The top spot looks set to be decided, albeit indirectly, by the match between Ohio Province and Michigan two weeks hence. A win for Ohio should confirm them as number 1, and invite the championship match against LSU or Oklahoma. Lose, and the cat enters the flock of pigeons. Lower down, we find Boise State looming outside the top ten: we'll discuss the WAC in a moment.
The See You Jimmy Division
LY LW TW Conf R RD Idle ================================================================== 66 52 50 ECARL CU 1057 106.1 0 E Carolina 55 57 56 HOUST CU 1025 102.5 1 Houston 59 61 58 TULSA CU 1022 106.1 0 Tulsa 96 71 63 UCF CU 1006 103.6 0 Central Florida 58 75 78 SMISS CU 933 106.2 0 S Mississippi 85 78 84 UTEP CU 878 104.3 0 Texas El Paso 72 100 92 RICE CU 840 106.4 0 Rice 103 98 99 MEMPH CU 798 104.7 0 Memphis 92 104 104 MARSL CU 764 110.2 0 Marshall 79 109 108 SMU CU 747 105.2 1 Southern Methodist 104 111 113 UAB CU 716 109.2 0 Alabama, Birmingham 102 115 116 TULNE CU 684 108.4 0 Tulane
ECARL leads UCF by a half-game in the Eastern subdivision, and has the head-to-head win. SMISS is a further half-game back, they beat ECARL in week 2. HOUST holds a half-game lead over TULSA in the West; they play SMU to-night and TULSA next week-end.
The Mid-Amorican
LY LW TW Conf R RD Idle ================================================================== 57 58 59 CMICH MA 1021 102.7 1 Central Michigan 91 81 85 BALLS MA 876 102.2 0 Ball State 88 86 86 TOLED MA 872 100.8 0 Toledo 78 89 87 OHIO MA 860 99.5 0 Ohio U 107 96 90 BOWLG MA 848 106.6 0 Bowling Green 112 95 91 MIOHO MA 846 98.7 0 Miami-Ohio 71 94 95 WMICH MA 821 103.8 1 West Michigan 97 97 100 AKRON MA 784 102.2 0 Akron 118 99 102 BUFFL MA 780 104.6 0 Buffalo 106 106 103 KENTS MA 768 109.1 1 Kent State 117 107 109 TEMPL MA 737 111.7 0 Temple 77 114 112 NILNS MA 720 107.4 1 N Illinois 115 113 114 EMICH MA 707 105.2 0 East Michigan
MIOHO is the unexpected leader of the East division, taking that place after beating BUFFL last night. BOWLG is a further game back, but Miami took the win when they met last month. CMICH is a game and a half clear in the West division, and finishes off with doozy matches against WMICH and EMICH.
The Western Athletic
LY LW TW Conf R RD Idle ================================================================== 13 11 12 BSEST WA 1244 104.3 0 Boise State 39 27 25 HAWII WA 1149 124.9 1 Hawaii 76 66 65 FRSST WA 1000 109.4 0 Fresno State 47 72 74 NEVDA WA 973 107.2 0 Nevada 69 84 88 SNJST WA 854 107.5 0 San Jose State 100 102 96 LSATC WA 807 109.6 0 Louisiana Tech 113 103 105 NMXST WA 762 116.4 0 New Mexico Territory 109 117 117 IDAHO WA 616 111.1 0 Idaho 114 118 118 UTHST WA 593 115.5 0 Utah Territory
Boise and Hawaii have yet to lose: their match on 23 November will decide the title, and may result in a top 10 finish for Boise. Hawaii is playing a strange pattern of games, with just one match between 12 October and 10 November, then three in 13 days.
State of Independents
LY LW TW Conf R RD Idle ================================================================== 41 55 48 NAVY XX 1063 106.5 0 Navy 14 53 62 NOTDM XX 1010 102.2 0 Notre Dame 108 105 106 ARMY XX 761 113.9 0 Army
Next week, we'll be re-capping all the divisional leaders, and detailing where battles remain.
Next week's televised games
Fr 0030 BE: #40 Louisville -v- #7 Virginia West Fr 0500 MA: #87 Ohio -v- #100 Akron (tape) Sa 0900 XX: #41 Rutgers -v- #106 Army (tape) Sa 1700 BX: #4 Michigan -v- #18 Wisconsin Sa 2030 SE: #17 Auburn -v- #15 Georgia Su 0900 BX: #52 Illinois -v- #1 Ohio Province Su 1200 BT: #14 Kansas -v- #46 Oklahoma Territory We 1730 MA: #86 Toledo -v- #85 Ball State (tape) Th 1730 MA: #100 Akron -v- #91 Miamiohio (tape)
We are, one assumes, to take it that NASN actually stands for Now Akron's Sports Network.
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