new Sagarin ratings

i expect that when the harris and coaches polls come out here shortly, we’ll see a correction moving us closer to OU, if not ahead. media was very vocal about this all week. see the quotes below.

I suppose I could have followed the lead of the voters in the coaches polls and dropped the defeated Longhorns below the Sooners (by three spots, no less) — but that’s just plain idiotic. Have the Sooners gotten that much better and/or the ’Horns that much worse in the three weeks since Texas beat Oklahoma? Since that game, the ’Horns have beaten two other highly ranked foes and lost on a last-second touchdown to another. I highly doubt it.

- Stewart Mandel, CNNSI

How they combined to plummet Texas from first to seventh after losing at the last second on the road to an undefeated team is unfathomable. The punishment is cruel and unusual — except that this sort of stupidity tends to be business as usual in the coaches’ poll. Consider who the Longhorns fell behind: Oklahoma, a team they beat by 10 points on a neutral field.

- Pat Forde, ESPN

According to the AP poll, Texas is ranked fifth and Oklahoma sixth. Of course, that doesn’t matter because the AP rankings are irrelevant. The two polls that actually influence the world have it embarrassingly wrong and without any possible reasoning. By what possible justification is Texas, who beat the Sooners 45-35, ranked seventh in the Coaches’ Poll while Oklahoma is fourth? According to the Harris Poll, Oklahoma is fifth and Texas sixth.

- Pete Fiutak, CFN

Not enough love – No. 4 Texas. Seriously, how can you drop the Longhorns three spots with a last-second loss on the road to a team that was No. 7 in the BCS? Have we all forgotten, you know, the wins over No. 6 Oklahoma, No. 9 Oklahoma State and No. 14 Missouri? Only Florida—No. 13 Georgia, No. 16 LSU and Miami—can come close to those wins.

- Matt Hayes, Sporting News

in addition, Herbstreit went off on this yesterday, and Todd McShay and Mel Kiper on ESPN radio as well.