Here’s a quick look at the updated CB360 Composite National Rankings, to be used in daily tracking of the Top–50 teams (primarily for the weekend of March 4–6).
CB360 Composite National Rankings #3 (March 4, 2016)
> (rank), team – CNR pts (prev. week rank … preseason)
(1) Florida – 98.75 (1 … #1 preseason)
(2) Vanderbilt – 98.33 (2 … 2)
(3) Texas A&M – 95.16 (4 … 3)
(4) Louisville – 93.01 (3 … 4)
(5) Oregon State – 92.40 (12 … 8)
(6) TCU – 91.82 (10 … 11)
(7) North Carolina – 89.73 (15 … 23)
(8) Oregon – 89.50 (8 … 14)
(9) LSU – 89.10 (6 … 5)
(10) Miami – 87.67 (5 … 6)
(11) Arkansas – 86.90 (14 … 18)
(12) Florida State – 86.38 (9 … 13)
(13) Mississippi – 84.31 (19 … 31)
(14) California – 80.64 (17 … 12)
(15) Virginia – 79.99 (7 … 7)
(16) South Carolina – 77.60 (30 … 29)
(17) UCLA – 76.36 (16 … 9)
(18) North Carolina State – 73.78 (20 … 19)
(19) Mississippi State – 72.54 (29 … 2)
(20) Georgia Tech – 70.46 (23 … 39)
(21) Cal State Fullerton – 68.59 (22 … 16)
(22) Coastal Carolina – 66.55 (28 … 30)
(23) Florida Atlantic – 66.23 (25 … 46)
(24) East Carolina – 66.14 (49 … –)
(25) Missouri State – 65.41 (21 … 26)
(26) Michigan – 65.12 (18 … 27)
(27) Houston – 64.25 (13 … 17)
(28) Louisiana-Lafayette – 61.23 (11 … 15)
(29) Stanford – 60.61 (33 … –)
(30) Oklahoma State – 60.58 (24 … 10)|
(31) Texas Tech – 58.89 (36 … 35)
(32) Alabama – 57.90 (43 … –)
(33) USC – 57.60 (31 … 20)
(34) UC Santa Barbara – 56.53 (38 … 45)
(35) Tulane – 56.05 (34 … 40)
(36) Texas – 56.04 (32 … 25)
(37) Southern Mississippi – 55.15 (41 … –)
(38) South Alabama – 54.78 (46 … –)
(39) UNC Wilmington – 54.76 (48 … 50)
(40) BYU – 54.10 (– … –)
(41) New Mexico – 53.27 (– … –)
(42) Dallas Baptist – 53.03 (26 … 28)
(43) Fresno State – 52.48 (– … –)
(44) College of Charleston – 51.18 (37 … 37)
(45) Michigan State – 50.48 (– … –)
(46) Missouri – 50.35 (50 … 43)
(47) Cal Poly – 49.88 (– … –)
(48) Long Beach State – 49.77 (– … 49)
(49) Rice – 49.30 (27 … 21)
(50) Oklahoma – 47.97 (45 … 34)
Next Five – Kentucky, Notre Dame, Arizona, Arizona State and Clemson
Dropped Out of CNR Top–50:
(35) Maryland
(39) Indiana
(40) Kentucky
(42) Arizona
(44) Arizona State
(47) Notre Dame
> Dropped Out of Top–50 After Week–1:
(41) San Diego State
(42) Illinois
(44) UC Irvine
(47) Auburn
(48) Iowa
(49) Long Beach State (has returned to current top–50)