That Tulsa loss is going to be the most unexplainable game of the year at this rate. My personal philosophy is I can forgive a dreadful loss if you have the win to make up for it and they do at this stage. Last Week: #17

DNP this week. Both the Pokes and Ducks jump a good bit this week, mainly as a consequence of (a) the second-tier SEC collective settling a little lower in the rankings and (b) head-to-head putting Oregon over Boise State. As someone who doesn't often believe in my team much, I do believe in what I've seen of them lately, but I'd be lying if I said I was confident heading into a home matchup against an unimpressive UCF. It's our game to lose, so obviously we're going to lose it.

Idle

[3-1, 1-0 Big 12] (+2) | SOR: #35 | Notable Results: L 10-24 @ Tulsa [3-2], W 39-31 vs #15 Oregon [4-1], W 41-24 @ West Virginia [3-2] |

+3; bye bye

😴

A very weird team to rank. Last week they were 32 in the computer model, but ended up 12th, the highest ranked 1 loss team, largely because I felt that they and Oregon |2| were in the same bucket of teams, and head to head mattered. Oregon was 23 in the computer last week.

This week both teams were on a bye, but the Tulsa |5| loss continues to look worse and worse, while Oregon's opponents have looked better and better. Its going to be a very weird team all year. This week Oklahoma State is ranked 29 in the computer, while Oregon is all the way up to 7, separating them into different tiers entirely.

I might as well be consistent if I'm going to defer all judgement to the head to head this week. I guess we'll pretend Tulsa is a fluke

(3-1) (up 1)
Bye
Next Week: vs UCF (3-2)
Projected Bowl: Alamo Bowl vs UCLA

Down 1

{-1} [3-1] (BYE)
2 P4 Wins

Yeehaw! Tulsa game will haunt them, but this team can definitely overcome.

Loss to Tulsa. Notable win: Oregon, WVU

+6.9085263 (LW: #23)

825 | 3-1 | H2H over Oregon

24. Oklahoma State — Score: 0.127 | Results: 0.908, SOS Rank: #77, Quality: 0.087, Recency: 0.000 | T10W: 1, T25W: 1, T50W: 1, Off Rk: #52, Def Rk: #44

Pat Narduzzi HATES this ballot

Tier 4. Win over Oregon keeping them up here. If they lose again they'd probably drop out of top 25.

You know the drill, Tulsa loss bad, Oregon win good.

Realized I should have Ok State ahead of Oregon when they’re both 3-1. I was overvaluing Oregon’s win over USC and felt like that was good enough to keep them several spots ahead of Ok State, but I’ve reconsidered that after yet another close call for USC.

Bye

(+1)

Oklahoma State would likely be a top 10 team if it weren’t for that season opener loss to Tulsa. They appear to be playing better football now.

-1 - bye