Uberleague Rank: November 28, 2010

We welcome an unprecedented number of new teams to the Uberleague this week. Three new teams (Stanford, Michigan State and Arkansas) made the cut this week. Arkansas and Michigan State finished their regular seasons well: Michigan State with a share of the Big 10 title, and Arkansas with a shot at a BCS bowl game. Stanford blanked Oregon State 38-0 and is a Cal game away from a potential BCS bowl game too. The three teams they displaced, Washington, Louisville and Texas Tech, have failed to be ranked all season. Neither Washington's success in the early 90's nor Louisville's success in the mid-2000s is enough to get them in to the Uberleague, at least as of this week. Texas Tech, a team just barely in for several seasons, is now just barely out.

So where to place them within the Uberleague? Stanford is of course a natural fit in the Western division, and an easy substitute for Washington. Michigan State is a natural fit in the Big Ten-dominated Northern division. But Arkansas, a team located one county away from Oklahoma, could be a natural fit in either the Big 12-dominated Central division or the SEC-dominated Southeast division. If Arkansas was placed in the Southeast division, it would mean that either another SEC team would have to move to another division or a Florida team would have to move to another division. In this case, I chose to maintain geographic ties rather than conference ties (after all, the Uberleague is meant to disrupt conference ties). Therefore Arkansas will go to the Central division, along with their rival LSU from the Texas-bordering state of Louisiana. Virginia Tech, a school just up Interstate 81 a bit from the University of Tennessee, moves to the Southeast division.

Uberleague Rk	Team	Uberleague pts	Change in rank from last week	2010 AP Rating
1	Florida	306.80	-	-
2	Ohio State	290.38	-	6
3	USC	244.16	-	-
4	Texas	234.44	-	-
5	LSU	196.75	-	11
6	Florida State	196.16	+2	20
7	Oregon	195.69	-	1
8	Alabama	195.47	-2	17
9	Oklahoma	193.93	-	10
10	Miami	174.77	-	-
11	Auburn	173.19	-	2
12	Nebraska	167.64	-	13
13	Virginia Tech	156.15	+1	12
14	Georgia	149.71	+1	-
15	TCU	140.50	+3	3
16	Penn State	136.60	-	-
17	Wisconsin	134.03	+2	4
18	Michigan	132.34	-1	-
19	Boise State	124.60	-6	9
20	Tennessee	120.15	-	-
21	Utah	104.79	-	21
22	West Virginia	91.92	+1	23
23	Iowa	78.69	-1	-
24	Notre Dame	68.33	-	-
25	Kansas State	65.01	-	-
26	Missouri	61.83	-	15
27	BYU	61.63	-	-
28	Texas A&M	51.16	-	19
29	Stanford	49.99	+7	5
30	Michigan State	49.91	+8	7
31	Colorado	49.81	-2	-
32	Arkansas	47.20	+8	8
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33	Louisville	47.16	-3	-
34	Texas Tech	46.45	-3	-
35	Washington	46.01	-3	-
36	Boston College	45.58	-3	-
37	Georgia Tech	45.46	-3	-
38	Cincinnati	43.55	-3	-
39	Ole Miss	39.99	-2	-
40	Washington State	38.18	+1	-
41	Oregon State	37.16	+1	-
42	Clemson	36.68	+1	-
43	Cal	32.56	+2	-
44	Arizona State	30.76	+2	-
45	Oklahoma State	30.49	-6	16
46	UCLA	30.33	+1	-
47	Syracuse	28.35	+1	-
48	Kansas	27.06	+2	-
49	Mississippi State	25.62	+3	22
50	South Carolina	25.24	+1	18