I snatched this data from a site i frequent when the BCS gets too much to handle.

Ratings and Rankings

NCAA Division I-A Football Ratings & Rankings
Based upon 614 games.
Rated & Ranked by John Wobus, 11/10/08

Rnk Team                                    Rating (W-L)
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  1 Texas Tech                               1.448 (10-0)
  2 Alabama                                  1.316 (10-0)
  3 Texas                                    1.288 (9-1)
  4 Utah                                     1.255 (10-0)
  5 Oklahoma                                 1.154 (9-1)
  6 Florida                                  1.125 (8-1)
  7 Southern Cal                             1.021 (8-1)
  8 Georgia                                  1.003 (8-2)
  9 Boise St                                 0.988 (9-0)
 10 Ball St                                  0.925 (9-0)
 11 Penn St                                  0.915 (9-1)
 12 Ohio St                                  0.903 (8-2)
 13 North Carolina                           0.893 (7-2)
 14 Missouri                                 0.883 (8-2)
 15 Oklahoma St                              0.875 (8-2)
 16 Tex Christian                            0.827 (9-2)
 17 Florida St                               0.803 (7-2)
 18 Michigan St                              0.769 (9-2)
 19 Cincinnati                               0.732 (7-2)
 20 Brigham Young                            0.714 (9-1)
 21 Pittsburgh                               0.704 (7-2)
 22 Wake Forest                              0.699 (6-3)
 23 Miami Florida                            0.672 (6-3)
 24 Virginia Tech                            0.672 (6-3)
 25 Georgia Tech                             0.658 (7-3)
 26 Air Force                                0.657 (8-2)
 27 Nebraska                                 0.607 (6-4)
 28 South Carolina                           0.590 (7-3)
 29 Louisiana St                             0.587 (6-3)
 30 Navy                                     0.575 (6-3)

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GAINESVILLE - Florida coach Urban Meyer didn’t have to defend himself against Randy Shannon’s distaste for Saturday’s last-minute field goal against Miami.

Tim Tebow had his back.

The Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback said he was offended by the Hurricanes coach questioning Meyer, who ordered Jonathan Phillips to kick a 29-yard field goal with 25 seconds left that punctuated Saturday’s 26-3 win in The Swamp.

“I’ll have Coach Meyer’s back on anything. To say something like that about Coach Meyer isn’t true at all,” Tebow said after Monday’s practice. “If you want to talk about him, you should definitely talk about a lot of other coaches before Coach Meyer. You can talk about running the score up, I don’t care. They are paid to stop us, [offensive coordinator Dan] Mullen is paid to score. They don’t do that, oh well. But you don’t have to talk about Coach Meyer as a person and getting into recruits and all that stuff, that’s not necessary.”

HEY COACH SHANNON - STOP WHINING YOU STUPID LITTLE BITCH.

On the flip side, its been a very long time since a Florida or Miami player got arrested. Thanks for that guys, that’s spot on.

Carolina beat the shit outta NC State on Thursday. I must admit, I am quite displeased with the performance of Tommy Beecher. He had an amazing preseason. He loked great in practice. But in the game, his throws were consistently off. he made bad decisions and threw 4 INTs. This is unacceptable. I’m pissed at the Ball Coach for letting this guy stink it up for 3 quarters, Luckily my Cocks put the wood to the Pack, dropping 34 points in the last quarter and a half.

Go Cocks.

Meanwhile, Tommy Bowden got his ass whupped. I keep hearingh about all this talent Clemson supposedly has, but I’m not seeing it on the field. How do you know someone has talent if you never see them use it? I’ve got more yards rushing than Clemson’s ‘AMAZING’ backfield. Can I get some burn, coach?

For the past week, I’ve been listening to my athletic Director beg for money on every public forum available to him. I’m too tired to go into the details, but I’m tired of it. Money doesn’t buy wins, but it does buy some things:

• Quality equipment and good staff to ensure our athletes are getting the best physical educations possible.
• quality facilities that meet minimum safety standards
• Good coaches (Spurrier) who know what they’re doing.

Beyond that, money has very little to do with winning. We can add 15k seats to Billy Brice Stadium, but that won’t make Carlos Thomas a shutdown CB. He has the talent, but not the will. I hear that NFL scouts have been seen at his place for 2 years now. This guy is already planning his end zone dance. Building million dollar condos next to the stadium won’t make Mike Davis hold on to the ball. It won’t stop Darth Visor from calling a toss sweep in his own end zone or from calling 3 consecutive pass plays while his runners are averaging 8 yards a carry.

I heard a caller talk that Tennessee is dropping a quarter billion on its spots facilities. This clown said that big time sports teams have big time facilities. Right now we have the egg preceding the chicken. Schools like Southern Cal and Miami can have billion dollar gyms because they’ve won big time games, - not the other way around.

The time to reward our players is when the offensive line blocks consistently… when we don’t blow leads in big games… when we finish a season as strong as we start it. Until then, you stupid football players will have to deal with preferential housing, specialized tutoring centers and almost-bleeding edge sports facilities.

You stupid Gamecock fans have to realize - the athletic director doesn’t life weights, catch balls or make takes. The ONLY thing he can do is sit around and beautify things. For him, the answer is money. He sees the money big time programs spends and equates that with winning.

To dispell that rumor, one need olnly look at A-Rod or the Houston Texans.

Until then, we’ll be that cat on the basketball court with the hot Jordan’s, the matching Nike Jumpsuit and leather ball who can’t play worth a damn.

One of the longest-serving and most influential members of USC’s board of trustees believes Gamecocks athletes have been targeted by the university’s police force.

Eddie Floyd, who has served on the board since 1982, said several months ago he was told that some campus police officers were overzealous in their investigations and arrests of athletes.

“I feel they have overstepped in some areas. After talking to some of the people, this is how I feel. And I always say what I feel, good or bad.”

Floyd said he met with university officials this summer to discuss the matter.

“My feeling is that (targeting athletes) has happened. I’m sure the administration may have a different opinion, but certainly that’s what I think.”

Floyd said he had no evidence police singled out athletes, but believes it has gone on based on his “gut feeling” following discussions with people he respects.

Is he right?
Hell yeah, he’s right. On USC’s campus, we have a small group of police officers who bring in more football players than rapists. I don’t know if anyone knows this, but USCs Athletic Department has slowing been moving players to off campus ‘housing’ to decrease these incidents. It’s funny, because the cops charged with policing off-campus housing haven’t arrested a single player, yet. But our local campus police can’t seem to go a week without arresting a QB.

Take Stephen Garcia for instance. The entire country thinks Spurrier is soft because he let Garcia back on the team. But the fact is that Stephen was caught drinking outside of his own dorm room. Truth: he shouldn’t have been drinking as he’s only 19. But if you drove past East Quadrangle at any point of the day, you’ll see people outside drinking.

You won’t see any cops, even though the police station is across the street, 100 yards away.

The fact that our football players even see jail cells for the things they’re getting busted for speaks volumes about our Football Culture. We here in Columbia don’t have an ‘US against the World‘ attitude. So some asshole cop buys a player a drink and then busts the same player for underage drinking five minutes later. Then we feed that kid to the media wolves. This is fucking college - I majored in underage drinking. I nearly killed myself many times with alcohol. On the few occasions that a pole officer intervened, he poured my shit out and sent me home. Is making an example of your starting QB worth all the negative publicity? What happens when advertisers see that we don’t love our team like Ohio State loves their team?