Crunchy football numbers (Soft Pretzel Logic)

Crunchy football numbers

Sorry it took me so long to get to this; I've been working on a couple of big projects all week. There's some good stuff in both papers today that I don't have time to link to but check the headlines feed at right.

34. Penn State (29) - home loss vs. Ohio State (2)
42. Rutgers (28) - home loss vs. West Virginia (5)
72. Delaware (98) - road win at Navy (78)
96. Villanova (111) - home win vs. Hofstra (102)
129. Temple (117) - off
140. Delaware State (146) - road win at South Carolina State (153)
151. Lehigh (161) - road win at Georgetown (231)
190. Lafayette (187) - road loss at Colgate (154)
201. Penn (186) - road loss vs. Brown (184)
242. La Salle (242) - home loss vs. Assumption (n/a)

What a huge win that was for Delaware. It's no coincidence that on yesterday's ESPN college football podcast, Mel Kiper pronounced Blue Hens quarterback Joe Flacco and stud running back Omar Cuff to be legit NFL prospects.

And the First State's other representative here got a shoutout from Mike Kern as the local team of the week in his column this past Monday.

Now for the Top 10 chart:

Rank	AP	Coaches	BCS	Sagarin
1.	Ohio State	Ohio State	Ohio State	Kansas
2.	Boston College	Boston College	Boston College	Ohio State
3.	LSU	LSU	LSU	Arizona State
4.	Oregon	Oregon	Arizona State	LSU
5.	Oklahoma	Oklahoma	Oregon	West Virginia
6.	Arizona State	Arizona State	Oklahoma	Oregon
7.	West Virginia	West Virginia	West Virginia	Boston College
8.	Kansas	Kansas	Kansas	Oklahoma
9.	Missouri	Missouri	Missouri	South Florida
10.	Georgia	Georgia	Georgia	Florida

That's some difference between the computers and the humans. Who do you believe?

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Posted by Jonathan Tannenwald on October 31, 2007 4:48 PM | Permalink

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