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Bowl Championship Series Standings* [Nov. 2, 2008]

*The BCS Standings give weight to three components — the Harris Interactive College Football Poll, the USA Today Coaches Poll, and the average calculations from six computer ranking services designated by the BCS. The BCS Standings are announced each Sunday by the National Football Foundation during NFL broadcast coverage on Fox, the BCS's network broadcast partner. View an explanation of the poll and of the Bowl Championship Series.
RANK TEAM W-L HARRIS COACHES COMPUTERS BCS
Rk Points % Rk Points % %Prev Avg
1 Alabama 9-0 1 2798 .9818 1 1498 .9823 .9600 2 .975
2 Texas Tech 9-0 3 2644 .9277 3 1409 .9239 .9600 7 .937
3 Penn State 9-0 2 2689 .9435 2 1437 .9423 .9000 3 .929
4 Texas 8-1 6 2322 .8147 7 1227 .8046 .9400 1 .853
5 Florida 7-1 4 2391 .8389 5 1268 .8315 .8100 8 .827
6 Oklahoma 8-1 5 2366 .8302 4 1290 .8459 .7900 4 .822
7 Southern Cal 7-1 7 2273 .7975 6 1232 .8079 .6600 5 .755
8 Utah 9-0 9 1864 .6540 9 1018 .6675 .7700 10 .697
9 Oklahoma State 8-1 8 2021 .7091 8 1066 .6990 .5900 9 .666
10 Boise State 8-0 10 1797 .6305 10 958 .6282 .7000 11 .653
11 Ohio State 7-2 11 1576 .5530 12 843 .5528 .5600 12 .555
12 Texas Christian 9-1 12 1560 .5474 11 862 .5652 .5200 13 .544
13 Georgia 7-2 14 1380 .4842 14 693 .4544 .6700 6 .536
14 Missouri 7-2 13 1416 .4968 13 794 .5207 .4600 14 .492
15 Brigham Young 8-1 16 1179 .4137 16 591 .3875 .3200 20 .374
16 Louisiana State 6-2 15 1241 .4354 15 683 .4479 .2300 19 .371
17 Ball State 8-0 17 1053 .3695 18 503 .3298 .3700 16 .356
18 Michigan State 8-2 18 857 .3007 17 516 .3384 .3700 21 .336
19 North Carolina 6-2 19 670 .2351 19 359 .2354 .3200 22 .263
20 Georgia Tech 7-2 20 561 .1968 20 289 .1895 .1800 0 .189
21 California 6-2 21 432 .1516 22 192 .1259 .0600 0 .112
22 Florida State 6-2 24 237 .0832 24 150 .0984 .0800 15 .087
23 Maryland 6-2 23 249 .0874 21 243 .1593 .0000 0 .082
24 Northwestern 7-2 26 212 .0744 25 120 .0787 .0900 0 .081
25 West Virginia 6-2 22 369 .1295 23 172 .1128 .0000 0 .081

POLL EXPLANATION:

To derive a team’s poll percentages in the Harris Interactive and USA Today polls, each team’s point total is divided by a maximum 2850 possible points in the Harris Interactive Poll and 1525 possible points in the USA Today Poll. Teams are assigned an inverse point total (25 for No. 1, 24 for No. 2, etc.) for each of their respective computer poll rankings to determine the overall computer component. The highest and lowest ranking for each team is dropped, and the sum total of the remaining four rankings is divided by 100 (the maximum possible points). This figure produces a Computer Rankings Percentage. The six computer ranking providers are Anderson & Hester, Richard Billingsley, Colley Matrix, Kenneth Massey, Jeff Sagarin and Peter Wolfe. Each computer ranking accounts for schedule strength within its formula. The BCS Average is calculated by averaging the percent totals of the Harris Interactive and USA Today Polls, and Computer rankings. The highest BCS Average receives the No. 1 ranking, the second highest receives No. 2, and so forth.

ABOUT THE BCS:

The BCS is a five-game arrangement for post-season college football that is managed by the 11 Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division I-A) conferences and Notre Dame. Its purpose is to match the two top-ranked teams in the final BCS standings in a national championship game and to create competitive match-ups in the four other BCS bowl games. The No. 1 and No. 2 teams in the Dec. 7 BCS standings will play in the FedEx BCS National Championship Game Jan. 8, 2009, in Miami, FL. The winner of the game will be presented the American Football Coaches Association National Championship Trophy. For more information, visit http://www.bcsfootball.org.

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