Florida Jumps to No. 2 in OCGR By Resting Up

There was a lot of movement in this week's OCGR, from Missouri moving out of the standings to Ohio State's jump from No. 17 to No. 7.  Here are the OCGR standings for this week.

(Ratings as of Oct. 19)

Rank	Team	Record	OCGR	PvWk
1	Texas	7-0	84.16	1
2	Florida	5-1	66.92	4
3	USC	5-1	66.90	2
4	Oklahoma	6-1	65.46	3
5	Penn State	8-0	64.18	5
6	Georgia	6-1	63.85	10
7	Ohio State	7-1	62.74	17
8	Alabama	7-0	62.68	6
9	Oklahoma State	7-0	62.57	8
10	Utah	8-0	59.38	9
11	TCU	7-1	58.49	15
12	Pittsburgh	5-1	54.97	NR
13	Boise State	6-0	51.54	12
14	South Florida	6-1	48.32	18
15	LSU	5-1	47.46	25
16	Ball State	7-0	46.54	23
17	Texas Tech	7-0	46.45	22
18	Minnesota	6-1	45.69	NR
19	BYU	6-1	45.44	21
20	Tulsa	7-0	43.48	26
21	Northwestern	6-1	43.36	NR
22	Florida State	5-1	40.69	NR
23	Georgia Tech	6-1	40.27	NR

(Dropped from ratings: No. 7 Missouri, No. 11 California, No. 13 Michigan State, No. 14 North Carolina, No. 16 Wake Forest, No. 19 Virginia Tech, No. 20 Kansas, and No. 24 Vanderbilt)

Texas has completely separated itself from everyone else.  Their 84.16 rating is one of the highest the OCGR has ever seen.  Amazingly, it has room to grow with games against Oklahoma State and Texas Tech.  A loss at this time would not hurt them with such a big lead.

Florida is the surprise of the week, edging out USC by 0.02 points.  Ohio State, LSU, and Pittsburgh are the big movers of the week, with Ohio State and LSU jumping 10 spots, as well as Pitt going from not rated to 12th.

With the BCS debut, let's look at the OCGR Top 10 versus the BCS Top 10.

Rank	OCGR	BCS
1	Texas	Texas
2	Florida	Alabama
3	USC	Penn State
4	Oklahoma	Oklahoma
5	Penn State	USC
6	Georgia	Oklahoma State
7	Ohio State	Georgia
8	Alabama	Texas Tech
9	Oklahoma State	Ohio State
10	Utah	Florida

Nine of 10 teams show up in both the OCGR Top 10 and the BCS Top 10.  However, there are three noticeable discrepancies between the two systems: Florida, Alabama, and Texas Tech. 

Florida is strong in all the categories for the OCGR, but the BCS voters still look at the Ole Miss loss, and the computer polls hit them hard. 

The voters and the computers love the Crimson Tide.  The OCGR is not that in love with them.  With the computer polls mainly looking at wins and losses, they cannot discern between handling an opponent and struggling with one.  The voters still think that Clemson victory is strong, as well as the first half against Georgia. 

As for Texas Tech, the voters are enamored more with the zero in the loss column than anything else.  The OCGR does not look too fondly on teams who play two FCS teams—thus, the No. 17 ranking.

Finally, here are the conference rankings for this week.  There is not much of a change since most of the out-of-conference games have been played.  The SEC and Big 12 still reign supreme.

(Conference strength through games played on Oct. 18)

Rank	Conference	OOC Record	Rating
1	SEC	28-5	0.6691
2	Big 12	38-10	0.6494
3	ACC	32-10	0.6221
4	Big Ten	31-10	0.6110
5	Big East	24-12	0.5883
6	MWC	25-11	0.5852
7	Pac-10	13-15	0.5279
8	WAC	17-17	0.5016
9	Independents	12-15	0.4854
10	MAC	21-28	0.4738
11	Conference USA	17-27	0.4496
12	Sun Belt	9-22	0.4087

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