Week 9 College Football Rankings in the Asbury Computer Poll

Oklahoma went down last weekend to make it the third straight weekend the #1 team lost after Alabama and Ohio State lost in the previous weeks. It was a tough close game but Missouri came out ahead. Missouri is one team the voters have not given much credit to this year but they quietly have put up a 7-0 record. Well, it was quiet until the win over Oklahoma. Yet they still are only 6th in the BCS standings. My computer has had them at least at that position all season while until this week, they hadn't cracked the top 10 in the official polls.

Another big game last weekend featured 2 top 10 teams from the SEC. Few teams have been able to slow down the Auburn offense this year but it anyone was to do it, LSU would be it, but it didn't happen. The Auburn Tigers piled up 526 yard of offense and Cam Newton rushed for 217 to get his name solidly in the Heisman talk. Meanwhile, LSU could hardly get the ball moving with less than half the number of offensive yards as Auburn, but they managed to keep it close.

Nebraska-Oklahoma State provided a very entertaining game in the Big 12 where teams are known to play little defense. It was a 51-41 shootout with Nebraska coming out on top. Taylor Martinez was impressive, this time doing it with his arm as well as his legs. He passed for over 300 and rushed for over 100 yards in the win.

So, here's how the rankings stand after 8 weeks. With only a few exceptions (Utah, Oklahoma, Oregon), my computer rankings resemble the BCS very closely.

Rank Prev BCS W L Team Total Rtg. SS Rank 1 2 1 8 0 Auburn 99.748 13 2 4 6 7 0 Mizzou 96.134 28 3 1 9 6 1 Okla 90.539 6 4 3 5 8 0 michst 90.067 46 5 6 3 5 0 Boise 89.589 62 6 8 4 8 0 TCU 89.399 75 7 7 2 7 0 Oregon 83.533 104 8 12 11 8 1 OhioSt 81.540 74 9 9 7 7 1 Alabama 81.223 65 10 5 12 7 1 LSU 79.306 19 11 15 10 7 1 Wisconsin 76.522 70 12 11 13 6 1 Stan 75.179 57 13 14 15 6 1 Ariz 74.393 55 14 10 17 6 1 OkSt 72.557 61 15 13 18 5 2 Iowa 72.319 34 16 36 14 5 1 Neb 70.852 78 17 37 22 5 2 Miami 70.684 30 18 16 16 6 1 FSU 69.699 76 19 23 20 5 2 SC 69.681 23 20 20 5 2 NCST 69.645 31 21 27 6 2 hawaii 69.356 64 22 19 24 7 1 nevada 67.896 92 23 24 8 7 0 Utah 67.515 120 24 18 21 6 2 msu 67.505 49 25 28 23 6 2 VT 67.335 79