Despite a 1-5 night, MAC improves to 14 in the RPI with Ohio at 8. MAC is 15th in Sagarin, Ohio at 17.
The argument for ranking OHIO in the top 20 of the media polls at this point is growing pretty legit. I'm interested in seeing if we can improve on #40 in next weeks poll.
Relatively speaking, there were few games this week, so your Boxing Day polls may not feature as much movement as others.
Looked at those ranked 20+ (AP) to see who lost and may fall. #25 Illinois dropped a game to #8 Mizzou -- surely will drop them into ORV-land, but probably not behind us, I'd guess.
Stanford dropped a game to unranked, under-.500 Butler. While I still think Butler is a quality team, they'll likely get penalized for that one. I'll say we jump them.
Kansas State (31) and Long Beach State (41) face off on Christmas day. Should K-State lose that one, I think we'll pass them, but LBSU may well leap-frog us. Calling that a wash.
Texas A&M (32) lost to Rice -- we jump them. Cleveland State lost to South Florida the day the last poll came out. Jump them. We jump UNI. Obviously.
Cal lost to #21 UNLV, and Northwestern to #23 Creighton. Neither are terrible, but probably enough to jump at least one.
I think we'll move forward, to around 32-35th, figuring our statement against UNI might help us jump a few of the handful-of-votes teams ahead of us.