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For those of you that care about movement from week to week, Stanford had 695 points in the preseason AP poll, and we were 99 points behind #13 LSU (794) and just 5 points ahead of #15 Georgia (690).  In this week's poll, Stanford has 772 points, 101 points behind #13 Auburn (873) and 87 points ahead of #15 Georgia (685).  That tells me that a few voters had shortchanged us in the preseason poll but reversed course, the most extreme example of that being the LA Daily News' Scott Wolf, who had us unranked in the preseason, but #10 in this week's poll.  (FYI, Wolf doesn't think much of the top of the Pac-12 this year, though he has 6 Pac-12 teams in the top 25. He puts SC at #14 and UW at #15; he's each school's worst voter.)

In the coaches' poll, Stanford had 732 points in the preseason poll, and we were 87 points behind #13 Auburn (819) and 31 points ahead of #15 Georgia (701).  In this week's poll, Stanford has 839 points, 24 behind #13 Auburn (863) and 72 ahead of #15 Georgia (767).  That looks like a marginally improved position, despite the ranking remaining the same. 

Of course, Stanford will either have a big jump or somewhat of a drop after this week's game, even though a rational ranking system wouldn't punish #14 too much for losing to #5, nor would #5 fall too far if it lost to #14 (though #5 would necessarily fall behind wherever #14 ended up, of course, given how few data points we have so far). 

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For those of you that care about movement from week to week, Stanford had 695 points in the preseason AP poll, and we were 99 points behind #13 LSU (794) and just 5 points ahead of #15 Georgia (690).  In this week's poll, Stanford has 772 points, 101 points behind #13 Auburn (873) and 87 points ahead of #15 Georgia (685).  That tells me that a few voters had shortchanged us in the preseason poll but reversed course, the most extreme example of that being the LA Daily News' Scott Wolf, who had us unranked in the preseason, but #10 in this week's poll.  (FYI, Wolf doesn't think much of the top of the Pac-12 this year, though he has 6 Pac-12 teams in the top 25. He puts SC at #14 and UW at #15; he's each school's worst voter.)

In the coaches' poll, Stanford had 732 points in the preseason poll, and we were 87 points behind #13 Auburn (819) and 31 points ahead of #15 Georgia (701).  In this week's poll, Stanford has 839 points, 24 behind #13 Auburn (863) and 72 ahead of #15 Georgia (767).  That looks like a marginally improved position, despite the ranking remaining the same. 

Of course, Stanford will either have a big jump or somewhat of a drop after this week's game, even though a rational ranking system wouldn't punish #14 too much for losing to #5, nor would #5 fall too far if it lost to #14 (though #5 would necessarily fall behind wherever #14 ended up, of course, given how few data points we have so far).