Usatoday 2013 week 9 rankings

18. Wisconsin (5-2, 3-1)

28. Notre Dame (5-2, 0-0)

33. Brigham Young (5-2, 0-0)

34. Texas (4-2, 3-0)

37. Boise State (5-2, 3-1)

41. Georgia Tech (4-3, 3-2)

42. Houston (5-1, 2-0)

51. Utah (4-3, 1-3)

67. Utah State (4-4, 3-1)

85. Nevada (3-4, 2-2)

90. Middle Tennessee State (3-4, 1-2)

95. Virginia (2-5, 0-3)



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Has anyone noticed that only 3 of our FBS opponents including UVA who beat us early, have losing records so far. Make that 4 counting Idaho State. We are 5-2 vs a pretty decent schedule. And world order has been restored - BYU is the highest ranked team in Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Montana, maybe even AZ.......ie the hood.



World order restored.

Ranking can't take the ignominy away from the 4 in a row to Utah.

Order partially restored.

So, is this schedule panning out to be as tough as people thought? I predicted this summer that the schedule looked tougher on paper and that rankings would compare favorably with last years schedule.

We're 3-0 on the 30-50 teams. Boise win would make 4-0 with two top 30 teams remaining.

Cougs_Rule wrote:
So, is this schedule panning out to be as tough as people thought? I predicted this summer that the schedule looked tougher on paper and that rankings would compare favorably with last years schedule.

Yes. If you had Alabama, Oregon, and Ohio State on the road and a bunch of WAC fodder to fill out the slate you will go 9-3 after three blowout losses and may get lucky and beat one of the big boys. Either way - then beat Washington State or SDSU in a bowl game - bam 10 wins. That is not a tough schedule. It is an easy schedule overall with 3 guaranteed losses.



Conversely, we have a schedule where at least 8 games could go either way. Wait. 9. UVA beat us. So 50/50 gets you 4.5 losses. And that still looks like just abour exactly where we will end up.



UVA was tougher than most expected

BYU started more slowly than most expected

Utah was tougher than pollsters thought early

Texas was not, but looking better every day - our OC outcoached their now former DC badly enough to get him fired in less than 24 hours

MTSU - as expected

USU as expected on D. Loss of Keeton hurt them. But we were handling him pretty well.

GT put up a little more fight than most expected

Houston - nobody expected them to be 5-0. Certainly as good as or slightly better than expected.

ND and BSU and Wisconsin are about where I expected. Dangerous, but beatable.

ISU - cake as expected.

Nevada - not very dangerous, bur do not look past them.



So yeah. I felt 8-4 would be a very good result for BYU vs this schedule. After the U loss, many wondered if we would be Bowl eligible and were certain U would be after their Stanford win.



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If we played UVA now, we would blow them out. Tough opening game loss.

scott715 wrote:
If we played UVA now, we would blow them out. Tough opening game loss.

If we played U in Provo Saturday, we would probably beat them too. Young team. Young QB. Slow start. This is certainly a year where playing U in November would have been better for us - assuming TH can still walk in November.



I think we would have beaten UVA week 1 if Anae called a TH draw instead of the ill-fated pass to Williams. My hesitation being that Arellano was getting punts off slowly and snaps were a little dicey.



And who woulda thunk we would be playing without Hoffman?



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Also Hill was reluctant to run the ball in that game.

As long as we're "if-ing" game one; I was there and have to say that if it doesn't rain, we win!

Ygridiron4ever wrote:
As long as we're "if-ing" game one; I was there and have to say that if it doesn't rain, we win!

Morher Nature sent the rain to prepare us for The Texas game, but she thought Hill would run a QB Draw on that play.



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18. Wisconsin (5-2, 3-1)

24. Notre Dame (6-2, 0-0)

26. Brigham Young (6-2, 0-0)

32. Texas (5-2, 4-0)

33. Houston (6-1, 3-0)

41. Georgia Tech (5-3, 4-2)

45. Boise State (5-3, 3-1)

57. Utah State (4-4, 3-1)

59. Utah (4-4, 1-4)

74. Middle Tennessee State (4-4, 2-2) – UP 16

93. Nevada (3-5, 2-3)

97. Virginia (2-6, 0-4)

scott715 wrote:
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18. Wisconsin (5-2, 3-1)

24. Notre Dame (6-2, 0-0)

26. Brigham Young (6-2, 0-0)

32. Texas (5-2, 4-0)

33. Houston (6-1, 3-0)

41. Georgia Tech (5-3, 4-2)

45. Boise State (5-3, 3-1)

57. Utah State (4-4, 3-1)

59. Utah (4-4, 1-4)

74. Middle Tennessee State (4-4, 2-2) – UP 16

93. Nevada (3-5, 2-3)

97. Virginia (2-6, 0-4)

Wow BYU has yet to play a team with a losing record EXCEPT VA. I so want that game back.

2 toughest games and then the two lowest left in the season.

19. Wisconsin (6-2, 4-1)

25. Notre Dame (7-2, 0-0)

26. Brigham Young (6-2, 0-0)

27. Texas (6-2, 5-0)

30. Houston (7-1, 4-0)

38. Georgia Tech (6-3, 5-2)

41. Boise State (6-3, 4-1)

52. Utah State (5-4, 4-1)

59. Utah (4-4, 1-4)

74. Middle Tennessee State (5-4, 3-2)

92. Nevada (3-6, 2-4)

101. Virginia (2-7, 0-5)

15. Wisconsin (7-2, 4-1)

21. Texas (7-2, 6-0)

28. Notre Dame (7-3, 0-0)

32. Brigham Young (6-3, 0-0)

34. Houston (7-2, 4-1)

39. Georgia Tech (6-3, 5-2)

41. Boise State (6-3, 4-1)

53. Utah State (6-4, 5-1)

67. Utah (4-5, 1-5)

72. Middle Tennessee State (6-4, 4-2)

94. Nevada (3-7, 2-5)

100. Virginia (2-8, 0-6)

15. Wisconsin (8-2, 5-1)

27. Notre Dame (7-3, 0-0)

28. Texas (7-3, 6-1)

30. Brigham Young (7-3, 0-0)

32. Houston (7-3, 4-2)

33. Boise State (7-3, 5-1)

43. Georgia Tech (6-4, 5-3)

55. Utah State (6-4, 5-1)

64. Middle Tennessee State (6-4, 4-2)

70. Utah (4-6, 1-6)

87. Nevada (4-7, 3-5) – UP 7

100. Virginia (2-8, 0-6)

Lets put all the 'rankings' in one post.