College Football ranking. Please help me understand?

Question

Like Thursday night. Wake Forest is playing Baylor.

23 Wake Forest

Baylor

Wake Forest Has 23 next to it

Baylor does not have a number.Why?

I am completely ignorant when comes to this college sports stuff.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

the rankings they show are only 1-25 Baylor is not in the top 25.

Answer 2

because wake forest is the 23rd best team in the nation, and they only rank the top 25, so anyone above 25 dont have their rank by their name

Answer 3

Wake Forest is ranked #23 in the country, so they have a 23 next to them. They put numbers by America's top 25 teams, and then there are 95 other teams that don't get a ranking.

They are ranked based on Performance of the previous season, returning star players, and expectations of the team. For example, Auburn finished ranked #14, and begin this season ranked as high as #5 in America and #10 in the AP because they have high expectations.

See?

Answer 4

To start off with the ranking you see now has nothing to do with BCS

rankings, the BCS no longer talley's from this list you see now. In about week 6 or 7 is when you see the rankings, this is what matters to the programs.

The pre-season rankings is what we are seeing now, most of the teams in the top 25 will drop off from the rankings as the season progresses.

They talley votes from sports writers all across the nation, each vote tally's certain amount points, then these points get caculated to end up placeing a team in its order. A georgia team recieved like 120 first place votes, 237 second place votes and so on, the totla amount of points may be something like 1447 pts more than any other team.

That gives them the pre-season number 1 ranking. Reason why bcs is dropping this poll for the use of help calculating points for the nc game plus other bcs bowls is the fact that they are too many biased voters out their, too many times has it been known that a sportwriter lets say in Miami will give more points to a Miami team that is 2-2 at the time and less points to a unbeaten BYU team. This the AP has to go back and ask that sports writer is he smoking crack or what ?, this simply caused way too much contreversy and the bcs simply dropped the AP poll for the bcs rankings. This AP poll is soley for entertainment now.

With little or no signifigance towards the bcs rankings anymore.

Answer 5

The 23 is Wake's national rank. The rank is only accounted for up to 25. Baylor is not in the top 25, therefore no number.