Week 10: Auburn is Clearly #1 in the Asbury Computer

Missouri held on to #2 this week after the loss at Nebraska despite being clearly beaten. But it was their first loss and came against another top team. The BCS computers also still rank Missouri very highly, at an average of #4, so my computer is not way off, even though the humans mostly rank then around. Meanwhile Oregon is still not getting much respect from my computer, coming in at #6. Auburn's lead at the top grew even bigger after another win with another impressive performance.

Boise State is losing ground by playing weak competition. The Broncos dropped to #8, but they play Hawaii this week which will help their strength of schedule. Boise State also has Frenso State and Nevada,a combined 12-3, so they still have a chance to gain back some ground and finish in the top 2. Speaking of Hawaii, I have them at #20. They have a 7-2 mark with both losses coming early to USC and Colorado. This could be a closer game than people expect.

We all knew Michigan State was not as good as their 8-0 start may have indicated but they had a favorable schedule with Notre Dame being the Spartans only reasonably tough non-conference game and not having to play Ohio State this year. However, Iowa surely ended and possibility of the Spartans making it very far. The Big Ten race will be fun to watch these last 4 weeks as Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan State, and Ohio State all have 1 conference loss.

The SEC is rather unbalanced this year. The western division has possibly 5 teams better than any team from the eastern division. It was only 4 or 5 years ago that the East was the more dominant conference but Florida, Georgia, and Tennessee are all struggling this season. Alabama versus LSU will be the best game in week 10. They are #6 and 10 in the BCS (9 and 15 in my poll). Alabama is very much alive in the SEC championship picture but LSU needs to beat Alabama and have Auburn lose to both Georgia and Alabama to get into the championship game.

Here's the Asbury Computer Top 25 up to date:

1 Auburn 100

2 Missouri 90.359

3 Oklahoma 88.640

4 TCU 87.309

5 Oregon 86.403

6 Iowa 85.114

7 Michigan State 85.006

8 Boise State 84.830

9 Alabama 83.602

10 Ohio State 82.467

11 Oklahoma State 80.582

12 Nebraska 79.001

13 NC State 77.884

14 Wisconsin 77.473

15 LSU 76.779

16 Arizona 75.626

17 Stanford 73.976

18 Utah 72.467

19 Mississippi State 71.110

20 Hawaii 69.949

21 Virginia Tech 68.520

22 South Carolina 68.409

23 Arkansas 68.157

24 Florida State 67.675

25 Nevada 66.839

And look for these scores this week:

Virginia Tech 33, Georgia Tech 24

Alabama 23, LSU 21

TCU 31, Utah 25

Stanford 29, Arizona 27

Oklahoma State 36, Baylor 28

Arkansas 28, South Carolina 27

NC State 29, Clemson 23

FSU 28, UNC 21