The AP Top 25
Nine of Alabama's opponents have spent at least one week in the AP Top 25 this season. After six weeks only three remain: #6 LSU, #10 Texas A&M and #13 Ole Miss. Arkansas, Auburn, Georgia, Mississippi State, Tennessee and Wisconsin have all fallen out of the AP's good graces less than halfway into the season.
But they aren't the only ones whose stock is dropping. #1 Ohio State has been hemorrhaging first-place votes for weeks and now only hold 27 of the 61 they had six weeks ago.
#7 Michigan State is undefeated but five spots lower than they were a few weeks ago. The Spartans now find themselves the underdog to upstart #12 Michigan this week.
And Alabama, despite a shaky first half of offense, put the defensive clamps on Arkansas in a 27-14 win but fell two spots to #10.
Alabama on AP Ballots
Ed Johnson has Alabama #3 this week. No one has the Tide at #14, but Chris Murray put Bama at #15.
Voter | Alabama |
Ed Johnson | 3 |
Ed Daigneault | 5 |
Eric Hansen | 5 |
Joey Knight | 5 |
Matt Charboneau | 5 |
Bob Asmussen | 6 |
Kirk Bohls | 6 |
Pete DiPrimio | 6 |
Rob Long | 6 |
Rustin Dodd | 6 |
Sam McKewon | 6 |
Tom Murphy | 6 |
Brian Howell | 7 |
Duane Rankin | 7 |
Adam Zucker | 8 |
Doug Lesmerises | 8 |
Gary Horowitz | 8 |
Jeff Seidel | 8 |
John Clay | 8 |
Jon Wilner | 8 |
Ken Medlin | 8 |
Laura Keeley | 8 |
Marc Weiszer | 8 |
Mike Sorensen | 8 |
Robert Cessna | 8 |
Robert Gagliardi | 8 |
Scott Hamilton | 8 |
Ryan Finley | 9 |
Gary Smits | 9 |
Jay Binkley | 9 |
Josh Kendall | 9 |
Michael Lev | 9 |
Mike Sands | 9 |
Nate Sandell | 9 |
Scott Wolf | 9 |
Chadd Cripe | 10 |
Dave Reardon | 10 |
Eric Avidon | 10 |
Jim Dunaway | 10 |
Matt McCoy | 10 |
Tim Griffin | 10 |
Tom D'Angelo | 10 |
Doug Doughty | 11 |
Jimmy Burch | 11 |
John Adams | 11 |
John Shinn | 11 |
Nathan Deen | 11 |
Ross Dellenger | 11 |
Steve Batterson | 11 |
Adam Jude | 12 |
Brent Axe | 12 |
David Briggs | 12 |
Garland Gillen | 12 |
Joel Klatt | 12 |
Mitch Vingle | 12 |
Sam Werner | 12 |
Steve Layman | 12 |
Brett McMurphy | 13 |
Jim Polzin | 13 |
Keith Sargeant | 13 |
Chris Murray | 15 |
USA Today Coaches Poll
Texas (2-4) got 4 points in this week's Coaches Poll after upsetting #10 Oklahoma.
Massey Composite
While LSU is the highest-ranked SEC team in the human polls, Florida is now the highest-ranked SEC team in the Massey composite with an average ranking of 6.4 across the 56 sources I checked. Alabama and their next opponent, Texas A&M, are tied for second with an average ranking of 8.4.
Once again, the Tempo-Free Gridiron Regression Based rankings have Auburn #4 in the country. But now they also have Georgia at #2.
Team | AP | Coaches | Average | High | Low |
Florida Gators | 8 | 11 | 6.4 | 1 | 19 |
Alabama Crimson Tide | 10 | 9 |
8.4 | 1 | 27 |
Texas A&M Aggies | 9 | 10 | 8.4 | 2 | 20 |
LSU Tigers | 6 | 5 | 13.3 | 3 | 37 |
Ole Miss Rebels | 13 | 12 |
19.0 | 4 | 45 |
Georgia Bulldogs | 30 | 28 | 34.1 | 2 | 65 |
Mississippi State Bulldogs | 29 | 30 |
34.9 | 19 | 74 |
Tennessee Volunteers | 42 |
38.3 | 16 | 68 | |
Kentucky Wildcats | 35 | 32 |
44.9 | 22 | 78 |
Missouri Tigers | 47.5 | 16 | 72 | ||
Auburn Tigers | 48.6 | 4 | 68 | ||
Arkansas Razorbacks | 48.6 | 12 | 80 | ||
South Carolina Gamecocks | 73.4 | 53 | 97 | ||
Vanderbilt Commodores | 76.1 | 47 | 99 |
Alabama in the Computer Rankings
Alabama is #2 in eight sources, #1 in five sources and #27 in Vern's ridiculous rankings.