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From: dday@gymble.UUCP (Dennis Doubleday)
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Subject: Re: USA TODAY College 10/21/85
Message-ID: <407@gymble.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 23-Oct-85 10:34:38 EDT
Article-I.D.: gymble.407
Posted: Wed Oct 23 10:34:38 1985
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Summary: Miami, FL's ranking

In article <1052@mtuxo.UUCP> 45223wc@mtuxo.UUCP (w.cambre) writes:
>Here's the USA Today - CNN Top 25 for 10/21/85
>
>RANK   TEAM        Record   VOTING POINTS     last week
>----   ---------   -------  --------------    ---------
>1)     Iowa        6-0      800               2
>2)     Penn State  6-0      724               4
>3)     Florida     5-0-1    716               5
>4)     Michigan    5-1      709               1
>5)     Nebraska    5-1      655               8
>6)     Auburn      5-1      650               7
>7)     BeWhyYou    6-1      592               9
>8)     Air Force   7-0      552              10
>9)     Oklahoma St 4-1      495              11
>10)    Florida St  5-1      466              13
>11)    Ohio State  5-1      450              12
>12)    Oklahoma    3-1      446               3
>13)    Miami, FL   5-1      422              18

I'm an Oklahoma Sooner fan from way back, but I nevertheless have
this question:  Why is Miami, FL getting so little respect from the
pollsters?  Isn't their only loss to somebody like Florida?  Come on!
This team won a national championship only two years ago and they now
get ranked *behind* an Oklahoma team (with a less impressive record)
that they just pushed all over the field??!! **IN NORMAN, OK, no less.**
I would be angry if that happened to my team.
    The Sooners are going to have to try to pick up the pieces after
the loss of QB Troy Aikman for the season.  Jamielle Holieway, an
untested freshman, is the new starter, which doesn't bode well for
Oklahoma the rest of the way, even though Holieway looks like he could
be very good *someday*.  Maybe the defense can carry OU to the Big
Eight title and an automatic Orange Bowl bid.
    By the way, does anybody else out there hate conference-bowl tie-ups?
Each year, the fans are robbed of the best match-ups by this system.  If
we're not going to have a playoff system (which I'm not sure is a good
idea, anyway), then we could at least have a bowl selection system which 
abolished all tie-ups and forced bowls to wait until the end of the 
regular season to offer bowl bids.  I'm sure the Big Ten is tired of
playing the Pac Ten every year anyway :-).


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