Football Crunchy Numbers (Soft Pretzel Logic)

Football Crunchy Numbers

Somehow there's still a week left in the regular season at the I-A level. As Rutgers still has a game left, I guess we have to go yet one more week before we close this thing out. So here we go again...

30. Penn State (30) -- off, season over
38. Rutgers (39) -- off, at Louisville (51) 11/29
81. Delaware (86) -- home win vs. Delaware State (150), at Northern Iowa (40) Dec. 1
98. Villanova (98) -- off, season over
130. Temple (130) -- road loss vs. Western Michigan (106), season over
167. Lafayette (168) -- off, season over
150. Delaware State (144) -- road loss vs. Delaware (81), season over
174. Lehigh (172) -- off, season over
186. Penn (185) -- off, season over
242. La Salle (242) -- off season over

Of note, Northern Iowa is by miles the highest-rated I-AA team. Among the teams ranked below the Panthers are Alabama, Maryland and Louisville.

And now for what has to be the screwiest Top 10 comparison of the season:

Rank	AP	Coaches	BCS	Sagarin
1.	Missouri	West Virginia	Missouri	West Virginia
2.	West Virginia	Missouri	West Virginia	Ohio State
3.	Ohio State	Ohio State	Ohio State	Missouri
4.	Georgia	Georgia	Georgia	Kansas
5.	LSU	Virginia Tech	Kansas	Florida
6.	Virginia Tech	Kansas	Virginia Tech	LSU
7.	Kansas	LSU	LSU	Oklahoma
8.	USC	Oklahoma	USC	USC
9.	Oklahoma	USC	Oklahoma	Virginia Tech
10.	Florida	Hawaii	Florida	Georgia

So who do you think should be No. 1? And more importantly, who do you think should play for the national championship?

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Posted by Jonathan Tannenwald on November 27, 2007 4:49 PM | Permalink

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dmac:

Who should play for the National Championship? Whoever wins the two semifinal playoff games. Oh.

Also, I believe the La Salle entry should read "program over."

Posted by dmac | November 27, 2007 7:26 PM

Posted on November 27, 2007 19:26

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