Tuesday, November 3, 2009

The Most Accurate Poll?

Every week Las Vegas Sports Consultants, the world's largest oddsmaking company, releases their top polls/rankings for the major sports. They describe their polls as ones in which "teams are ranked purely by the numbers, without media, regional, league, conference or any other biases – just the facts as determined by LVSC’s team of experts." Because they use the same information that is used to make the betting lines, it is perhaps the most complete and accurate poll. We will post the updated college football poll here every Tuesday and the updated NFL rankings on Wednesdays.

WEEK 10 RANKINGS


The two most interesting teams on the list would have to be Oklahoma and USC. Oklahoma is in the fourth spot despite being twenty spots lower in the BCS. USC drops only one spot from last week after being destroyed by Oregon, who is one spot below. The oddsmakers, like many around the country, do not have much confidence in the undefeated Iowa Hawkeyes putting them outside the top 10. I am not sure you would get much argument with that thought outside of Big Ten country.

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