The Arena's College Football Rankings [Week 11 Posted]

Okay, DarthIntegral has given me the okay to run a College Football Rankings game where you guess the rankings of the Top 25 in College Football each week.

A weekly deadline (Tuesday 11 P.M. board time) will be set to have everyone who wants to participate. PM you their weekly ballots to Arena_Power_Rankings that I have set up for this game. When I get all the ballots, I'll assign points to every team that gets a vote. 25 points for a team that gets a first place ranking, 24 for a second place ranking, and so on until 1 point for a 25th place ranking, and zero points for unranked.

Then, I'll add up the total points for all schools that get a vote. I'll give the school with the highest overall points the #1 ranking, and go on down the list until you've got the 25 top ranking schools.

Here is the current preseason AP Top 25.

1. USC (62) 0-0 1,622
2. LSU (2) 0-0 1,511
3. West Virginia (1) 0-0 1,396
4. Texas 0-0 1,375
5. Michigan 0-0 1,371
6. Florida 0-0 1,276
7. Wisconsin 0-0 1,192
8. Oklahoma 0-0 1,166
9. Virginia Tech 0-0 1,148
10. Louisville 0-0 1,031
11. Ohio State 0-0 876
12. California 0-0 790
13. Georgia 0-0 782
14. UCLA 0-0 605
15. Tennessee 0-0 571
16. Rutgers 0-0 560
17. Penn State 0-0 542
18. Auburn 0-0 519
19. Florida State 0-0 392
20. Nebraska 0-0 377
21. Arkansas 0-0 376
22. TCU 0-0 283
23. Hawaii 0-0 256
24. Boise State 0-0 187
25. Texas A&M 0-0 162

Others Receiving Votes
Missouri 128, Georgia Tech 94, Boston College 75, Oregon 73, South Carolina 69, Miami (FL) 68, Alabama 66, Oregon State 42, Wake Forest 40, South Florida 28, Arizona State 17, Brigham Young 14, Southern Miss 12, Notre Dame 11, Virginia 7, Clemson 6, Oklahoma State 3, Texas Tech 2, Purdue 1, Houston 1, Kentucky 1, North Carolina State 1.

Week 1 starts now with your votes due by 11 P.M. board time this coming Tuesday, September 4th.

 

I'd send in rankings now, except the voting closes after the weekend's games, so I'll wait until then to vote.

 

I figured we'd probably be best starting it by waiting until after the first set of games was played, so that The Arena rankings weren't pre-season, and we had actual game performance for some teams when ranking them.

 

Ok, sorry to confuse everyone, but this will not be a game of guessing at the rankings (trying to predict the AP poll), but rather, trying to come up with the Arena's top 25. Then, we'll have discussion on the Arena's top 25 (which would be our version of the AP/USA Today/Coaches/Harris/etc poll). So, I'll move back when the first set of ballots are due until the following Tuesday, September 11th. By that team, each team should have at least played one game. Then we can compare what everyone sent in with the AP Top 25 poll and discuss our differences.

 

You don't need to move it back - most teams play this weekend, so they'll have played before the original deadline. Might be better to have a Wednesday deadline instead of Tuesday, but otherwise its fine.

 

Okay, the Arena's first set of rankings will be moved back to this coming week. I will move the deadline to Wednesday's by 11:59 P.M. board time. So that will make it September 5th for this week, September 12th for the second week, etc. That should give everyone more than enough time to send in their rankings. So watch the main set of games today and then start sending in your votes for your top 25 in College Football.

 

yeah, the most important game is Monday night

 

yeah, the most important game is Monday night

Yeah, and the home team is going down

 

Well, I can tell you one team that won't be in my rankings this week ...

 

Gotta earn it first...

 

can we just post our list here, or do we PM it in?

 

PM your list to Arena_Power_Rankings. Don't forget that Florida State plays Clemson on Monday night as well Texas Tech playing Southern Methodist on Monday as well. I will post the AP Top 25 poll when that comes out on Tuesday.

 

don't they release the poll on Monday?

 

Normally, yes, they do release the polls on Monday, but due to the games on Monday, they will not release it until Tuesday after all of the games have been played.

So, anyone going to put Michigan in their Top 25? And do you think that Michigan will drop out of the AP Top 25 poll as well?

 

I'm sure Michigan will still be ranked, if not nearly as highly... but they haven't earned it yet, so they won't be in my list. They probably will be before long, though.

 

i doubt Florida State/Clemson is going to shake up my list much, but I'll hold off until after Monday. The 3-8 position is the one I'm having a lot of problems with right now. OU played great, as did West Virginia, and Texas looked shaky. I'm going to have to ponder a while.

Remember folks: don't vote for Appalachian State.

 

I have an idea. Along with predicting the polls, you can take all the users polls and make The Arena's top 25 poll.

 

rechedelphar posted:

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I have an idea. Along with predicting the polls, you can take all the users polls and make The Arena's top 25 poll.
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That is what I am going to do with everyone's votes. I will post the Arena's Top 25 poll along with the AP Top 25 poll and then we will discuss the differences. I will post the AP Top 25 poll tomorrow and then the Arena's Top 25 poll on Thursday after I've counted everyone's votes.

 

Okay, here are this week's AP Top 25 Rankings. Send in yours so that we can compare and talk about the rankings of the Arena vs. the AP.

AP Top 25
1. USC (59) 1-0 1,619
2. LSU (5) 1-0 1,542
3. West Virginia (1) 1-0 1,449
4. Florida 1-0 1,346
5. Oklahoma 1-0 1,275
5. Wisconsin 1-0 1,275
7. Texas 1-0 1,221
8. Louisville 1-0 1,152
9. Virginia Tech 1-0 1,085
10. California 1-0 1,080
11. Georgia 1-0 959
12. Ohio State 1-0 940
13. UCLA 1-0 736
14. Penn State 1-0 662
15. Rutgers 1-0 659
16. Nebraska 1-0 541
17. Auburn 1-0 519
18. Arkansas 1-0 450
19. TCU 1-0 384
20. Hawaii 1-0 335
21. Georgia Tech 1-0 278
22. Boise State 1-0 267
23. Texas A&M 1-0 217
24. Tennessee 0-1 210
25. Clemson 1-0 195

Others Receiving Votes
Boston College 126, Missouri 116, Miami (FL) 91, Oregon 90, Alabama 74, Oregon State 41, South Carolina 39, Michigan 39, Brigham Young 27, South Florida 27, Florida State 22, Arizona State 19, Southern Miss 9, Wake Forest 7, Washington 1, Kansas 1.
Dropped From Rankings
Michigan 5, Florida State 19.

P.S. Only Tennessee remains as a beaten team this week. Does Tennessee deserve to remain a TOP 25 team or not?

 

Sent mine in earlier. I'm curious to see where Michigan and Tennessee end up in our poll.

Should we refer to this as the APR Poll? Just curious.

 

I've got mine in. I hate trying to rank teams this early, with so few of them showing us anything of substance. I ranked Cal #1, since they've shown the most to date.

 

Sent, though I agree about it still being hard to rank teams this early.

 

Time is running out to get your votes in for the first week of the Arena's Top 25 poll. You have until 11:59 P.M. board time tonight to send your votes in.

P.S. As far as what we call this, maybe everyone should vote on that as well. What does everyone want to name it? Arena Top 25 or Arena Powers Rankings or something else?

 

I rather like calling it the APR Poll. It's kind of a joke on AP Poll. Admittedly, it would be easy to confuse them.

We could call it the JCF Poll. It's distinct and easy to remember.

 

I decided to abstain until week 3 or 4. (which is when polls should start in any case)