2012 BCS rankings released for Week 9: K-State jumps Oregon, Bama and Florida abide

The debate entering Sunday night's unveiling of Week 9's BCS rankings: should Oregon or Kansas State be ranked No. 3 behind Alabama and Florida? Notre Dame and Oregon State also had cause to enter that discussion, but I didn't hear much of that debate. Just the other one.

We know Bama's No. 1, and we know Florida strengthened its hold on No. 2 in the BCS standings with its convincing beatdown of South Carolina. But with the Ducks flattening everything on their (not-so-tough) schedule and Kansas State now owning two excellent road Big 12 wins, it appeared we'd come down to the battle between man and machine. The machine won.

Both human polls have Oregon ranked ahead of Florida, then Kansas State. The computers, however, love K-State's strength of schedule, even more than they did a week ago, when multiple selectors had the Wildcats No. 1 and within .003 points of the Ducks. This week, the robots have Oregon behind even Oregon State, which the humans rank as low as No. 9 (pffft ... humans). With Kansas State getting Texas Tech next while Oregon fiddles with Colorado, the Cats could extend their lead even further in seven days.

The complete BCS Top 25 with six weeks to go (full selector rankings via ESPN):

		BCS		Harris			Coaches			Computers
Rank	Team	Avg	Pvs	Rank	Pts	%	Rank	Pts	%	AVG	A&H	RB	CM	KM	JS	PW	%
1	Alabama	.9625	1	1	2868	.9976	1	1475	1.0000	4	5	1	4	5	3	3	.890
2	Florida	.9310	2	3	2622	.9120	3	1329	.9010	1	2	5	1	1	1	2	.980
3	Kansas State	.9111	4	4	2571	.8943	4	1326	.8990	2	1	4	5	3	2	1	.940
4	Oregon	.8966	3	2	2727	.9485	2	1403	.9512	6	6	2	6	6	7	7	.790
5	Notre Dame	.8512	5	5	2374	.8257	5	1221	.8278	3	4	3	2	2	5	5	.900
6	LSU	.7862	6	6	2270	.7896	6	1164	.7892	7	7	6	9	7	4	6	.780
7	Oregon State	.7421	8	8	2001	.6960	9	974	.6603	5	3	7	3	4	6	4	.870
8	Oklahoma	.7126	9	7	2021	.7030	7	1084	.7349	8	8	10	13	8	8	8	.700
9	USC	.5767	10	9	1934	.6727	8	1014	.6875	16	16	8	17	19	15	19	.370
10	Georgia	.5379	11	11	1603	.5576	11	850	.5763	13	13	12	16	15	12	17	.480
11	Mississippi State	.5265	12	12	1602	.5572	12	800	.5424	13	9	20	8	17	18	12	.480
12	Florida State	.4925	14	10	1911	.6647	10	948	.6427	21	22	22	15	0	23	20	.170
13	South Carolina	.4797	7	16	1189	.4136	16	598	.4054	10	14	9	12	10	9	11	.620
14	Texas Tech	.4736	17	17	1074	.3736	17	571	.3871	9	10	11	7	9	10	9	.660
15	Rutgers	.4703	15	15	1205	.4191	15	637	.4319	11	12	17	11	14	11	10	.560
16	Louisville	.4196	16	14	1324	.4605	14	720	.4881	18	15	25	14	21	21	16	.310
17	Stanford	.3850	20	18	929	.3231	19	401	.2719	11	11	13	10	11	13	14	.560
18	Clemson	.3692	19	13	1562	.5433	13	788	.5342	27	25	19	24	0	0	0	.030
19	West Virginia	.2178	13	22	363	.1263	22	173	.1173	15	17	15	19	13	16	15	.410
20	Texas A&M	.2123	18	21	465	.1617	21	229	.1553	17	20	0	20	12	14	18	.320
21	Boise State	.2070	22	19	762	.2650	18	407	.2759	24	23	14	21	0	0	0	.080
22	Michigan	.1898	NR	20	490	.1704	20	264	.1790	19	24	16	25	18	19	21	.220
23	Texas	.1221	25	24	237	.0824	24	109	.0739	20	18	21	23	20	20	22	.210
24	Ohio	.1171	NR	23	293	.1019	23	132	.0895	22	19	0	0	0	17	13	.160
25	Wisconsin	.0593	NR	NR	136	.0473	25	104	.0705	25	0	0	22	22	25	25	.060

Fun facts from the National Football Foundation:

• First-time school(s) in the BCS Standings: Ohio. A total of 85 schools have appeared in the BCS Standings since they were created in 1998.

• Schools debuting in 2012 BCS Standings: No. 22 Michigan, No. 24 Ohio, No. 25 Wisconsin. • Dropped out of BCS Standings: No. 21 Cincinnati, No. 23 TCU, No. 24 Iowa State.

• The No. 1 team in the second week of the BCS Standings has gone on to play in the BCS National Championship Game 10 times, including the last two (Auburn - 2010, LSU - 2011).

• The No. 2 team in the second week of the BCS Standings has gone on to play in the BCS National Championship Game seven times, including the last three (Alabama - 2009, Oregon - 2010, Alabama - 2011).

• The Southeastern Conference has had at least one team in the No. 1 or No. 2 position in 34 of the last 35 BCS Standings, dating back to Dec. 2, 2007.

• Kansas State has tied its highest-ever ranking at No. 3 (1998).

• Notre Dame was ranked No. 5 for the second consecutive week, marking the sixth time in the history of the BCS Standings that the Irish have appeared in the top five. The Irish have not been ranked No. 5 in consecutive weeks since Nov. 12 and Nov. 19, 2006.

• The first two weeks of the BCS Standings mark the first time intrastate rivals Oregon (No. 4) and Oregon State (No. 7) have been ranked in the top 10 since 2000; the first time two Big East schools have been ranked inside the top 20 since 2009; and the first time a MAC school has been ranked in the Standings since 2010.

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