Top 25 Team Rankings of the Harris Interactive College Football Poll

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Nov 21, 2010, 05:12 ET

NEW YORK, Nov. 21, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Today's Harris Interactive College Football Poll(SM) shows the Top 25 results compiled from rankings submitted by the Harris Interactive panel of former coaches, players and administrators, and current and former members of the media. All the teams in the top five maintained their positions as #1 Oregon, #2 Auburn, and #4 TCU were idle this weekend. Boise State and Wisconsin both won this week and held on to the #3 and #5 rankings respectively.

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Highlights of November 21 Harris Interactive College Football Poll
Rank	Team	Record	Points	Previous Game (weekend of Nov 20)	Next Game (weekend of Nov 27)	Previous Week's Rank
1	Oregon (68)	10-0	2,793	Idle	No. 21 Arizona (Fri)	1
2	Auburn (31)	11-0	2,727	Idle	at No. 11 Alabama (Fri)	2
3	Boise State (14)	10-0	2,619	Beat Fresno State 51-0	at No. 19 Nevada (Fri)	3
4	TCU (1)	11-0	2,557	Idle	at New Mexico	4
5	Wisconsin	10-1	2,295	Beat Michigan 48-28	Northwestern	5
6	LSU	10-1	2,227	Beat Mississippi 43-36	at No. 12 Arkansas	6
7	Stanford	10-1	2,209	Beat California 48-14	Oregon State	8
8	Ohio State	10-1	2,131	Beat No. 19 Iowa 20-17	Michigan	7
9	Oklahoma State	10-1	1,805	Beat Kansas 48-14	No. 13 Oklahoma	12
10	Michigan State	10-1	1,797	Beat Purdue 35-31	at Penn State	10
11	Alabama	9-2	1,783	Beat Georgia State 63-7	No. 2 Auburn (Fri)	11
12	Arkansas	9-2	1,589	Beat No. 22 Mississippi State 38-31 (2OT)	No. 6 LSU	13
13	Oklahoma	9-2	1,412	Beat Baylor 53-24	at No. 9 Oklahoma State	14
14	Virginia Tech	9-2	1,322	Beat No. 24 Miami (FL) 31-17	Virginia	15
15	Nebraska	9-2	1,199	Lost to No. 20 Texas A&M 9-6	Colorado (Fri)	9
16	Missouri	9-2	1,176	Beat Iowa State 14-0	at Kansas	16
17	South Carolina	8-3	1,037	Beat Troy 69-24	at Clemson	17
18	Texas A&M	8-3	936	Beat No. 9 Nebraska 9-6	at Texas (Thur)	20
19	Nevada	10-1	894	Beat New Mexico State 52-6	No. 3 Boise State (Fri)	18
20	Utah	9-2	495	Beat San Diego State 38-34	BYU	21
21	Arizona	7-3	471	Idle	at No. 1 Oregon (Fri)	23
22	Florida State	8-3	439	Beat Maryland 30-16	Florida	25
23	North Carolina State	8-3	330	Beat North Carolina 29-25	at Maryland	NR
24	Iowa	7-4	284	Lost to No. 7 Ohio State 20-17	at Minnesota	19
25	Mississippi State	7-4	178	Lost to No. 13 Arkansas 38-31 (2OT)	at Mississippi	22
Number of first place votes shown in parentheses.

Other teams receiving votes: Northern Illinois 94; West Virginia 49; Navy 42; Florida 41; Central Florida 30; Hawaii 24; Penn State 11; Miami (FL) 9; Southern Miss 9; Ohio 7; Air Force 6; San Diego State 5; Tulsa 5; Maryland 3; Syracuse 3; Notre Dame 2; Temple 2; Clemson 1; Miami (OH) 1; Northwestern 1.

Dropped out of Top 25: Miami (FL).

Poll Methodology and Process

The 2010 Harris Interactive College Football Poll is comprised of former players, coaches, administrators and current and former members of the media who have committed to submit rankings for the top 25 college football teams each week. These panelists were randomly selected from among more than 300 nominations submitted by the 11 Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division I-A) offices and the independent schools. The panel has been designed to be a statistically valid representation of all 11 Football Bowl Subdivision conferences and independent institutions. Today, 114 poll participants submitted their top 25 college football team rankings. Harris Interactive applies a standard statistical practice that allows it to identify potential instability, error or bias associated with unusual ranking patterns. Those rankings that are identified through the analysis are verified to ensure that each panelist's intent is accurately reflected.

This week's rankings and other information about the poll can be found at www.harrisinteractive.com/bcspoll and www.bcsfootball.org.

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