The Bowl Championship Series released their second rankings of the 2010 college football season and Stanford has dropped from 12th to 13th following their 38-28 victory over the Washington State Cougars. Although Stanford won, there was a significant amount of activity around them that caused the drop. Wisconsin’s narrow victory over the Iowa Hawkeyes propelled them from 13th to 10th. Even though schools like Oklahoma and LSU lost, they did not fall far enough to help the Cardinal.
The new number one team in the BCS is Auburn, which was able to ride its seven point victory over LSU to the top of rankings. Although Oregon walloped on UCLA 60-13, it did not sufficiently impress the computers to climb to number one. In fact, although Oregon’s average climbed from .8921 to .9069, their deficit behind the number one team actually increased from .0294 to .0302.
Your full BCS rankings for week 8 of the 2010 season:
1 Auburn .9371
2 Oregon .9069
3 Boise State .8846
4 TCU .8833
5 Michigan State .8387
6 Missouri .8006
7 Alabama .7100
8 Utah .7049
9 Oklahoma .6691
10 Wisconsin .6584
11 Ohio State .6356
12 LSU .6219
13 Stanford .5185
14 Nebraska .5073
15 Arizona .4492
16 Florida State .4395
17 Oklahoma State .3053
18 Iowa .2834
19 Arkansas .2481
20 South Carolina .2431
21 Mississippi State .1959
22 Miami (FL) .1799
23 Virginia Tech .1367
24 Nevada .0865
25 Baylor .0403