{"id":3108,"date":"2016-11-22T08:40:23","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T14:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/?p=3108"},"modified":"2016-11-22T08:40:23","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T14:40:23","slug":"jessup-pope-jp-college-football-rankings-week-beginning-nov-21-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/2016\/11\/22\/jessup-pope-jp-college-football-rankings-week-beginning-nov-21-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessup Pope (JP) College Football Rankings: Week Beginning Nov. 21, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by guest blogger, Noah Bastable<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The most notable game this week happened\u00a0<span class=\"m_7263274833276260807gmail-aBn\"><span class=\"m_7263274833276260807gmail-aQJ\"><span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Thursday<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0when the Houston Cougars beat Louisville in a tumbling loss for the Cardinals as they fell down from #5 to #14, even though both teams have a 9-2 record. This is, in part, how the Jessup-Pope College Football Rankings (much like life) works. If you notice the bottom 6 teams on the chart, their PageRank scores do not differ as much as the top 4 teams. Even the difference between Alabama and Ohio State is huge. This just goes to show it&#8217;s easy to get to the top, but it is hard to stay on top (even though Alabama may say otherwise).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3109\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/files\/2016\/11\/jp-rankings-11.22.16-461x490.jpg\" alt=\"jp rankings 11.22.16\" width=\"461\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/files\/2016\/11\/jp-rankings-11.22.16-461x490.jpg 461w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/files\/2016\/11\/jp-rankings-11.22.16-141x150.jpg 141w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/files\/2016\/11\/jp-rankings-11.22.16-282x300.jpg 282w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/files\/2016\/11\/jp-rankings-11.22.16.jpg 592w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The University of Houston Cougars were previously ranked #46 and are now ranked #17 on the Jessup Pope College Football Ranking system.<\/p>\n<p>We hope that everybody has a great week off of school and work and enjoys their Thanksgiving meals, perhaps while watching the 9-1 Cowboys face the Redskins on Thanksgiving day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by guest blogger, Noah Bastable The most notable game this week happened\u00a0on Thursday\u00a0when the Houston Cougars beat Louisville in a tumbling loss for the Cardinals as they fell down from #5 to #14, even though both teams have a 9-2 record. This is, in part, how the Jessup-Pope College Football Rankings (much like life) works. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5020,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[818,6633,2750,467],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-coba-faculty","category-current-students","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5020"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3110,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3108\/revisions\/3110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}