PASADENA, CA - JANUARY 01: Quarterback John David Booty #10 of the USC Trojans throws a pass against the Illinois Fighting Illini during the Rose Bowl presented by Citi at the Rose Bowl on January 1, 2008 in Pasadena, California. The Trojans defeated the Fighting Illini 49-17. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)
Rankings Week continues with a visit to 2007. This really was one of the strangest, most ridiculous, awesome seasons in recent memory.
New 2007 S&P+ Rankings
Official 2007 F/+ Rankings
Expanded 2007 Off. S&P+ Rankings
Expanded 2007 Def. S&P+ Rankings
The F/+ Top 40 for 2007 is below. The entire list can be found at Outsiders. Some quick notes:
- These rankings pretty quickly show you why so many teams lost: because no team was good in all three aspects of the game. No team in the Off. F/+ Top 10 also ranked in the top ten in Def. F/+, and vice versa. And in fact, it wasn't close; the only Top 10 offense in the Def. F/+ Top 40 was BYU, and the only Top 10 defense in the Off. F/+ Top 25 was West Virginia. An odd, odd season.
- It makes sense in such an odd year, then, that a 6-7 team would actually slide into the Top 25. Karl Dorrell's final team ranked well ahead of any of Rick Neuheisel's teams, the best of which ranked 50th (2009).
- It is also wonderfully odd that there were no undefeated teams and only two one-loss teams ... and one of those two didn't even make it into the Top 40 (No. 42 Hawaii). For that matter, none were in the Top 13. The 12-1 Kansas Jayhawks ranked behind four four-loss teams. Odd, odd, odd.
2007 F/+ Top 40
| F/+ Rk | Team | Record | F/+ | Off F/+ |
Rk | Def F/+ |
Rk | Spec. Tms F/+ |
Rk |
| 1 | USC | 11-2 | +26.2% | 1.6% | 41 | 23.9% | 1 | 0.7% | 14 |
| 2 | West Virginia | 11-2 | +25.3% | 6.7% | 21 | 17.8% | 9 | 0.8% | 10 |
| 3 | LSU | 12-2 | +24.1% | 6.2% | 24 | 17.6% | 10 | 0.3% | 36 |
| 4 | Florida | 9-4 | +23.9% | 25.7% | 1 | -2.9% | 72 | 1.1% | 2 |
| 5 | Ohio State | 11-2 | +23.2% | 2.0% | 39 | 20.8% | 5 | 0.4% | 29 |
| 6 | Oregon | 9-4 | +21.6% | 7.3% | 17 | 14.1% | 13 | 0.2% | 47 |
| 7 | Oklahoma | 11-3 | +19.3% | 5.7% | 27 | 12.8% | 16 | 0.9% | 8 |
| 8 | Virginia Tech | 11-3 | +19.1% | -3.9% | 73 | 21.7% | 4 | 1.3% | 1 |
| 9 | South Florida | 9-4 | +16.9% | -2.7% | 65 | 19.4% | 6 | 0.2% | 49 |
| 10 | Georgia | 11-2 | +16.7% | 2.8% | 34 | 13.2% | 14 | 0.7% | 13 |
| 11 | Missouri | 12-2 | +16.5% | 11.1% | 6 | 5.3% | 42 | 0.0% | 62 |
| 12 | BYU | 11-2 | +16.0% | 9.2% | 9 | 6.7% | 35 | 0.1% | 55 |
| 13 | Clemson | 9-4 | +15.2% | -1.3% | 59 | 16.0% | 12 | 0.5% | 24 |
| 14 | Kansas | 12-1 | +15.0% | 1.6% | 40 | 13.0% | 15 | 0.4% | 33 |
| 15 | Auburn | 9-4 | +14.3% | -3.9% | 74 | 18.0% | 8 | 0.2% | 43 |
| 16 | Oregon State | 9-4 | +14.3% | -8.6% | 96 | 23.2% | 2 | -0.3% | 86 |
| 17 | Cincinnati | 10-3 | +13.6% | 0.9% | 45 | 11.8% | 19 | 0.8% | 11 |
| 18 | Boston College | 11-3 | +13.0% | 7.1% | 18 | 6.5% | 36 | -0.7% | 105 |
| 19 | Tennessee | 10-4 | +12.8% | 8.9% | 11 | 3.6% | 47 | 0.2% | 42 |
| 20 | California | 7-6 | +12.7% | 7.5% | 15 | 5.2% | 43 | 0.0% | 69 |
| F/+ Rk | Team | Record | F/+ | Off F/+ |
Rk | Def F/+ |
Rk | Spec. Tms F/+ |
Rk |
| 21 | Texas | 10-3 | +12.7% | 7.0% | 20 | 5.1% | 44 | 0.6% | 20 |
| 22 | UCLA | 6-7 | +12.3% | -11.5% | 109 | 22.8% | 3 | 1.0% | 5 |
| 23 | Michigan | 9-4 | +11.4% | -5.6% | 84 | 17.0% | 11 | 0.1% | 58 |
| 24 | Illinois | 9-4 | +11.4% | 5.9% | 26 | 5.4% | 40 | 0.1% | 57 |
| 25 | Arkansas | 8-5 | +11.2% | 4.3% | 29 | 6.9% | 33 | -0.1% | 70 |
| 26 | Arizona State | 10-3 | +10.8% | 2.3% | 35 | 8.2% | 28 | 0.3% | 40 |
| 27 | Texas Tech | 9-4 | +10.4% | 14.8% | 3 | -4.6% | 85 | 0.2% | 44 |
| 28 | Penn State | 9-4 | +10.1% | 3.7% | 32 | 6.0% | 38 | 0.3% | 37 |
| 29 | Utah | 9-4 | +9.9% | -9.4% | 101 | 18.4% | 7 | 0.9% | 6 |
| 30 | Kentucky | 8-5 | +9.8% | 8.9% | 10 | 1.0% | 56 | -0.2% | 76 |
| 31 | South Carolina | 6-6 | +8.9% | 1.0% | 44 | 7.8% | 30 | 0.1% | 54 |
| 32 | Arizona | 5-7 | +8.1% | 0.6% | 47 | 7.2% | 31 | 0.4% | 32 |
| 33 | Michigan State | 7-6 | +7.8% | 6.4% | 23 | 1.1% | 55 | 0.3% | 38 |
| 34 | Boise State | 10-3 | +7.7% | 5.9% | 25 | 0.8% | 57 | 1.0% | 4 |
| 35 | Rutgers | 8-5 | +7.4% | 5.5% | 28 | 2.1% | 51 | -0.3% | 80 |
| 36 | Wake Forest | 9-4 | +7.2% | -3.8% | 72 | 10.2% | 23 | 0.8% | 12 |
| 37 | Central Florida | 10-4 | +7.1% | -3.6% | 71 | 10.1% | 24 | 0.6% | 17 |
| 38 | Wisconsin | 9-4 | +7.0% | 7.5% | 14 | -1.1% | 65 | 0.6% | 19 |
| 39 | TCU | 8-5 | +6.7% | -5.7% | 85 | 11.8% | 20 | 0.6% | 18 |
| 40 | Alabama | 7-6 | +6.7% | -3.0% | 66 | 9.2% | 25 | 0.5% | 25 |
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