POLLS AND LINKS

[RazorNick]

........just seen it.

http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/polls

[HawgPilot]

18th in the USA Today poll

[Dr. Porkenstein]

Only up 2 spots.....

[BloodRedHog]

link?

[hogs25]

link?

[Dr. Porkenstein]

http://www.sportsline.com/collegefootball/polls

[SwinedMelon]

# 18 in coaches poll.

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/usatpoll.htm

[missippihog]

At least the AP is. We are 15th behind 14th ranked LSU who has lost 2 games, 1 to a team we dominated at their place and the other that just lost to the team we dominated. What a joke.

[Pyotr Tchaikhogsky]

We're getting a royal screw job.  We beat Auburn, Auburn beats Florida, and both of them end up ranked way ahead of us.  Even LSU, who lost to Auburn AND Florida, is ahead of us.  I guess the only way to get respect is to keep winning.  The pressure is on.  I hope the team deals with pressure better than they have in the past.

[UADrummer]

We're getting a royal screw job.  We beat Auburn, Auburn beats Florida, and both of them end up ranked way ahead of us.  Even LSU, who lost to Auburn AND Florida, is ahead of us.  I guess the only way to get respect is to keep winning.  The pressure is on.  I hope the team deals with pressure better than they have in the past.

You have to understand how polls work, you're not going to jump that drastically no matter who you beat.  They are an average of what people think, so you should expect an average amount of movement, some people will have it the way that you stated, however some of the voters are more conservative and will not move teams hardly at all.  It takes an entire season for the polls to balance out and by the end of the season they will be balanced.  But don't expect to make that drastic of movements. 

Most voters actually base the polls off of the week before, so if we are 17 that week and perform well you could expect us to move up a little.  If we were #2 and lost then we would move down.  But they aren't going to rewrite the entire rankings every week just to explain that weeks games, that would never be an accurate representation of the polls.  One game at time, and we will be where we deserve as the season finishes up.

[hogs25]

Didn't we start the season ranked 48?  15 is good.

[Hawgz4Life]

Well, 15 is not bad....who'd have thought at the end of the USC game that we'd have such audacity to go and get ourselves nationally ranked? In the Top 15, no less? LOL! I love it.

[ErieHog]

I'm hoping for a single digit ranking this week in the AP myself. The Auburn win over Fla. made us look REALLY good. IMO.

News flash: the AP has been out for about an hour now.  We're 15th.

[RazrHog4Life]

I'm hoping for a single digit ranking this week in the AP myself. The Auburn win over Fla. made us look REALLY good. IMO.

Too late, as the previous people have stated, we are 15
http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/polls

[Hawgz4Life]

Yeah, Hero...I noticed that and changed my post. It's amazing at how eagerly some people around here are just sitting and waiting for someone else to make a mistake. Stop trying to belittle others and worry about posting something intelligent. You know who you are.

[football17]

ok,just so everyone will know, all voters ranked Arkansas this week.. as high as 7 in one vote to as low as 22 I think in another...

[HOBBITHater]

Movin' on up!  :razorback:

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2626932

[Lando Calrissian]

ok,just so everyone will know, all voters ranked Arkansas this week.. as high as 7 in one vote to as low as 22 I think in another...

What I find funny about this is:

Someone wouldn't rank us after we embarrass Auburn AT Auburn, yet they WILL rank us after we beat SEMO at home.

God bless newspaper guys...and the NCAA!

[Pyotr Tchaikhogsky]

We're getting a royal screw job.  We beat Auburn, Auburn beats Florida, and both of them end up ranked way ahead of us.  Even LSU, who lost to Auburn AND Florida, is ahead of us.  I guess the only way to get respect is to keep winning.  The pressure is on.  I hope the team deals with pressure better than they have in the past.

You have to understand how polls work, you're not going to jump that drastically no matter who you beat.  They are an average of what people think, so you should expect an average amount of movement, some people will have it the way that you stated, however some of the voters are more conservative and will not move teams hardly at all.  It takes an entire season for the polls to balance out and by the end of the season they will be balanced.  But don't expect to make that drastic of movements. 

Most voters actually base the polls off of the week before, so if we are 17 that week and perform well you could expect us to move up a little.  If we were #2 and lost then we would move down.  But they aren't going to rewrite the entire rankings every week just to explain that weeks games, that would never be an accurate representation of the polls.  One game at time, and we will be where we deserve as the season finishes up.

Yeah, I understand how polls work.  Last week, there were many AP voters that admittedly FORGOT to vote for Arkansas.  Yeah, that's a system that we should trust.  If you don't start the season ranked, you're gonna get screwed over.  Polls should not come out until mid-season.  But even that wouldn't work because ESPN, who loves to over-analyze everything, would come out with their own rankings which would still influence voters when it came time to vote.  So even though we can't do anything about it, what I said remains true; we're getting a royal screw job.  The only solution is to keep winning.

[WxHog]

The BCS Standings will be released at approx. 3:15.  FOX will announce them after the NFL game. 

[1836andon]

Looks like we only gained 2 spots. 

#15 in the AP poll

[mj4president]

We are 15th in the AP. I saw it on ESPN on the main page of college football under the Title that says Ohio St. is 1 and Mich is 2. In the aritcle it lists the rankings for the AP.

[ZAP743]

Yeah, I saw that...Not much, but we did play SEMO! Just keep winning and it'll take care of itself!! WPS!!

[Hollywood_HOGan]

wonder how many voters still didnt put us on the ballot.

Be interesting to see where that freakin Alabama person put Arkansas who didnt even put us in last week.

[Hogz87]

Man if we could play a High School team until the end of the year we would be in the Top 5. 

We seemed to have got more credit for this Saturday's win, than last Saturday's win.

That's probably because they thought last week was just a fluke, but when we came out this week and handed SEMO their arses they realized we're actually pretty good. 63-7 is good no matter who you're playing.

Wrong, 63 - 7 does matter w/ who you are playing.  Did you already forget that USC hung 70 points on us?  Yes we could have scored more yesterday, but so could have USC last year.

So yes it does matter who you are playing when you score 63 points.

I agree it does matter who you are playing but when is the last time Arkansas has beaten a team of SEMO's quality that badly?

[deserthawg]

http://www.sportsline.com/collegefootball/polls/ap

[HAM ELLIOT]

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2626932

[Tusks]

I hit that nail on the head by the way....check the post.

[HAM ELLIOT]

I do not understand how they have LSU ahead of us. 

[HogHillbilly]

Arkansas is 15th............................Here's the link

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2626932

[football17]

you're about an hour and few dozen posts late...

[HogHillbilly]

you're about an hour and few dozen posts late...

Well.............What do you expect..............About 15 threads have been combined in this one freaking thread................Who the hell can keep up

[jdhoover]

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/appoll.htm

[jdhoover]

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/appoll.htm

[Doug]

Coaches poll moved us up from 23 to 18, so we're getting a little more respect from coaches now. 

[1BADHOG]

During NFL postgame.

[HoopS]

Which channel will it be on, CBS or Fox?

[THROWITDEEP]

Which channel will it be on, CBS or Fox?

FOX

[HoopS]

Thanks

[cookie52]

so, did they say what the rankings were?

[hogstorm]

not yet

[John Futrall]

BCS:

OSU 1
USC 2
UM 3
AU 4 (that's Auburn)
WVU 5
FLA 6
Louiville 7
ND 8
TX 9
CAl 10

[ErieHog]

Arkansas 13

[John Futrall]

http://msn.foxsports.com/cfb/poll?poll=BCS

BCS Standings
Rk Team W-L Harris Coaches CPU % BCS
   Rk Points % Rk Points %  Prev Avg
1 Ohio State 7-0 1 2848 .000 1 1575 1.016 .000 4 .973
2 USC 6-0 2 2621 .000 2 1476 .952 .000 1 .956
3 Michigan 7-0 4 2557 .000 3 1430 .923 .000 20 .934
4 Auburn 6-1 10 1728 .000 7 1122 .724 .000 9 .748
5 West Virginia 6-0 5 2434 .000 4 1411 .910 .000 11 .745
6 Florida 6-1 3 2599 .000 10 1045 .674 .000 17 .738
7 Louisville 6-0 7 2181 .000 6 1205 .777 .000 19 .718
8 Notre Dame 5-1 9 1917 .000 8 1068 .689 .000 6 .694
9 Texas 6-1 6 2246 .000 5 1314 .848 .000 2 .684
10 California 6-1 11 1712 .000 11 981 .633 .000 0 .668
11 Tennessee 5-1 8 1959 .000 9 1060 .684 .000 0 .653
12 Clemson 6-1 12 1499 .000 12 896 .578 .000 0 .504
13 Arkansas 5-1 22 532 .000 18 532 .343 .000 0 .471
14 Oregon 5-1 20 822 .000 15 660 .426 .000 5 .449
15 Boise State 6-0 21 803 .000 17 575 .371 .000 0 .432
16 Rutgers 6-0 24 416 .000 19 415 .268 .000 0 .395
17 Nebraska 6-1 19 830 .000 16 596 .385 .000 0 .354
18 LSU 5-2 16 1035 .000 14 682 .440 .000 12 .350
19 Georgia Tech 5-1 15 1084 .000 13 703 .454 .000 24 .340
20 Boston College 5-1 25 204 .000 21 321 .207 .000 21 .259
21 Wisconsin 6-1 26 194 .000 22 288 .186 .000 18 .254
22 Oklahoma 4-2 23 430 .000 20 354 .228 .000 23 .158
23 Iowa 5-2 13 1244 .000 23 172 .111 .000 0 .070
24 Missouri 6-1 17 914 .000 27 89 .057 .000 0 .680
25 Tulsa 5-1 38 4 .000 - - .000 .000 0 .064

[HAM ELLIOT]

Arkansas 13

According to ESPN, we are the new #15 in the poll.  I posted the link a few posts back, but somehow it has been skipped.

I do not understand how they have LSU ahead of us. 

[ErieHog]

13 in the BCS Poll, which is what we've all been waiting on for the last hour +

Arkansas 13

According to ESPN, we are the new #15 in the poll.  I posted the link a few posts back, but somehow it has been skipped.

I do not understand how they have LSU ahead of us. 

[FAABrad]

Anyone else notice the Harris poll is identical to last weeks?  Even the teams that lost stayed in the same place.

http://msn.foxsports.com/cfb/poll?poll=Harris

[HoopS]

Yes, I'm not happy that Auburn is 4th and we, the team that shite kicked Auburn are 13th.  I know, it's just how the polls worked.  And I also know that 13 is pretty good.  I still think it is a load of crap...

[HolcombeHog]

http://msn.foxsports.com/cfb/poll?poll=BCS

BCS Standings
Rk Team W-L Harris Coaches CPU % BCS
   Rk Points % Rk Points %  Prev Avg
1 Ohio State 7-0 1 2848 .000 1 1575 1.016 .000 4 .973
2 USC 6-0 2 2621 .000 2 1476 .952 .000 1 .956
3 Michigan 7-0 4 2557 .000 3 1430 .923 .000 20 .934
4 Auburn 6-1 10 1728 .000 7 1122 .724 .000 9 .748
5 West Virginia 6-0 5 2434 .000 4 1411 .910 .000 11 .745
6 Florida 6-1 3 2599 .000 10 1045 .674 .000 17 .738
7 Louisville 6-0 7 2181 .000 6 1205 .777 .000 19 .718
8 Notre Dame 5-1 9 1917 .000 8 1068 .689 .000 6 .694
9 Texas 6-1 6 2246 .000 5 1314 .848 .000 2 .684
10 California 6-1 11 1712 .000 11 981 .633 .000 0 .668
11 Tennessee 5-1 8 1959 .000 9 1060 .684 .000 0 .653
12 Clemson 6-1 12 1499 .000 12 896 .578 .000 0 .504
13 Arkansas 5-1 22 532 .000 18 532 .343 .000 0 .471
14 Oregon 5-1 20 822 .000 15 660 .426 .000 5 .449
15 Boise State 6-0 21 803 .000 17 575 .371 .000 0 .432
16 Rutgers 6-0 24 416 .000 19 415 .268 .000 0 .395
17 Nebraska 6-1 19 830 .000 16 596 .385 .000 0 .354
18 LSU 5-2 16 1035 .000 14 682 .440 .000 12 .350
19 Georgia Tech 5-1 15 1084 .000 13 703 .454 .000 24 .340
20 Boston College 5-1 25 204 .000 21 321 .207 .000 21 .259
21 Wisconsin 6-1 26 194 .000 22 288 .186 .000 18 .254
22 Oklahoma 4-2 23 430 .000 20 354 .228 .000 23 .158
23 Iowa 5-2 13 1244 .000 23 172 .111 .000 0 .070
24 Missouri 6-1 17 914 .000 27 89 .057 .000 0 .680
25 Tulsa 5-1 38 4 .000 - - .000 .000 0 .064

The reason that wer aren't higher is  because the Harris Poll has us at #22.  The harris poll updates on Monday, so the Harris poll used in this calculation is actually from last monday, so the whole calculation is messed up if you ask me.

[HolcombeHog]

Anyone else notice the Harris poll is identical to last weeks?  Even the teams that lost stayed in the same place.

http://msn.foxsports.com/cfb/poll?poll=Harris

The Harris poll doesn't update until Monday, that is why we are still #22 on that poll.