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College football polls: BYU 8, 9; Utah 13, 14

Here's BYU's chance to play top-25 team --TCU
Good luck!!!!

Utah 72
BYU 121
TCU 91

best opponent ranks:

Utah 17
BYU 73
TCu 5

cya Thursday.

Can someone please explain to me how USC jumps five spots for beating a lousy Arizona St. team??

I'm a diehard UTES fan but the polls are a joke!!!

1. USC is the epitome of getting a reputation based benefit of the doubt from the voters. They could lose again and stay top-12. Although after two lackluster wins by BYU and still staying high (almost #6 as far as points go), BYU is also riding its reputation quite a bit right now. Regardless of how dominant BYU's wins may or may not look, maintaining the nation's longest win streak will go a long way with voters who do not get to watch BYU's games.

2. Only 4 vote points seperates BYU from #6.

3. BYU, Utah and BSU all stayed put. It is not unusual to see 1 or 2 loss BSC teams move above the non-BCS teams as their is so much more respect given to BCS in-conference wins than to MWC or WAC in-conference wins at this point in the season.

4. Great to see TCU ranked. This gives BYU the chance to end the season with two top-25 victories on their resume.


5. AP does not matter in the BCS rankings - just like the ESPN Power Poll it is just a feel-good but mean nothing poll. And after two so-so wins it feels pretty good.

TCU moves into the top 25 just in time to set up 2 ranked teams when they play BYU this week. Look for the cougars to move up in the polls next week!

Go cougs!

i can agree with this weeks poll except for texas tech not dropping some for an overtime win over a non ranked nebraska team. oh well, byu doesnt have time to worry about nothing but tcu. good luck!

BYU will not go undefeated this year. A Day after the article about how great BYU's line backers are, they get exposed. TCU will knock them off.

C'mon, Florida moves up to number 5??? How quick they forget they lost to a mediocre Ole Miss at Home!!. Th bias these pollsters have is a complete joke. We need a playoff system!!

they beat #3 by 30! if you think byu would beat florida you have gotta be insane

BYU is not a top 10 team!

This is the week all of the SOS BS ends.

If BYU beats TCU, all the talk about not beating a decent opponent ends. If BYU loses, the Cougars will no long be undefeated and SOS will be irrelevant.

It's put up or shut up time for BYU.

Okay, lets not compare BYU to Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, etc...

However, please do not tell me the BYU, Utah, or TCU could not be in the top 2-3 teams in the Big Least or ACC, or even the Pac 10 this year. All three teams are good and there are more surprises to come.

Unfortunately, one loss by each of those teams will knock all three teams out of BCS contention...which really blows!

Both BYU & Utah would not even be in the top 25 IF they were in the SEC or Big 12. Imagine a sked that included LSU, Texas, Tx. Tech, Georgia & Florida. Either team would be in 4th or 5th place.

How did BYU's linebackers get exposed? They held a team that averages 200 yards rushing to 130 yards and a team that averages 20 points to 3. You're right, New Mexico really took it to the BYU linebackers.

Nothing was ever mentioned about BYU by a joke but your BYU hater blinders can't let you see the truth of the statement. The gators lost to Ole Miss at home just a few weeks ago and now all the pollsters can see is their win just like USC jumping up after just losing to OSU. I couldn't care less about the biased polls except that they determine in part who gets a chance to play for a championship unlike basketball so some of us do like to point out the obvious failures of the current system.

Utah's strength of schedule will continue to drop as Michigan continues to lose to teams like Toledo. That win at the big house is looking less impressive every week. Teams who have beat Michigan in Ann Arbor the past two seasons: Appalachian St., Toledo, and Utah. Impressive.

It's unbelievable that this is how we must endure every season of college football. We must count on what others' opinions are about our football team to gain legitimacy and then argue with each other about what it means! BYU is not the only team that suffers from this illegitimate system. Just for arguments sake, lets take a look at USC. Do you think USC could beat the new #1 Texas? I might take that bet! The New England Patriots were the best team in football last year! (Or were they?!?) No, the Giants were. How do we know this?? Because they proved it on the field. The current college football system gives us no such justification, and until the system changes, it will always be a joke!!

If BYU goes undefeated, they will get a BCS bowl (Utah would if they win out), but we will be watching teams leapfrog over BYU and Utah in the polls for the rest of the season.

We do need a play-off, but not for BYU, for the SEC and the Big-12

BYU has not won a game against a single opponent that as a winning record at the mid-point of the season. BYU is not the victim of bias here. Two major points:

1. BYU gets cred for the nation's longest win streak.
2. The pollsters know that BYU has only one 1 game against a team ranked at the end of the season durin this decade.

The fans need to realize that real-life constantly intrudes on fantasy in college football. Every team that plays a mediocre or above schedule risks losing every week one they hit the heart of that schedule.

BYU's schedule is about as safe as it can be and still include a couple of teams with historical name recognition. This may yet work to BYU's advantage:

1. Missouri is going to be looking for blood against Texas.
2. Alabama still has to play against LSU and if they win the East, Florida or Georgia again.
2. OSU has to play Texas and Oklahoma.

BYU actually has a better shot in this system than in a play-off world.

Uh, no ... according to this week's poll, Florida actually beat No. 13 by 30 points. LSU was obviously overrated.

The whole system is a complete joke. Yes, Florida beat LSU by 30, but that doesn't discount the fact that Florida lost to a crappy Ole Miss team. USC could be the best team in the country on any given Saturday, but they lost to Oregon State -- a team that Utah beat.

The voters always forgive the well-known teams their take-a-week-off losses, but others don't get the same treatment.

How does Utah feel to be ranked a spot behind a team that just got beat by 30 points the day before?