1989 -- Top 25 Open
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Rank Team Power Rating Wins Losses Last Week
1 Texas 1799 6 2
2 Stanford 1793 23 4
3 U.C.Santa Barbara 1746 21 4
4 U.C.Berkeley 1741 24 2
5 Columbia 1610 27 7
6 U. Penn. 1514 33 6
7 Carnegie-Mellon 1501 13 5
8 Oregon 1484 6 4
9 UNC-Wilmington 1478 19 3
10 East Carolina 1477 18 5
11 Tufts 1473 20 8
12 Kansas 1405 12 6
13 Cal Poly-S.L.O. 1396 7 7
14 Michigan 1395 11 3
15 U.C.Davis 1372 7 9
16 Florida 1371 8 6
17 Chico State 1353 6 7
17 Indiana 1353 14 5
19 Cornell 1338 9 6
20 U.C.Santa Cruz 1337 8 12
21 S.U.N.Y. Purchase 1314 21 13
22 Hampshire 1277 17 12
23 Wesleyan 1276 21 13
24 Carleton 1254 16 5
25 Vermont 1243 14 11
26 Las Positas 1228 14 17
27 Washington 1217 5 9
28 Chicago 1215 8 5
29 M.I.T. 1210 9 9
30 San Francisco State 1192 2 6
31 Wisconsin 1185 15 8
32 Princeton 1181 6 7
33 St. Louis 1170 7 5
34 Navy 1169 14 4
35 Brown 1152 10 12
36 Illinois 1149 4 2
37 Lehigh 1142 11 9
38 Yale 1134 10 14
39 U.C.San Diego 1069 10 9
40 U.C.Irvine 1067 11 7
41 U. Mass. 1045 4 9
42 San Jose State 1028 2 8
43 Ohio Univ. 1026 4 3
44 Oberlin 1019 6 3
45 William and Mary 1015 4 4
46 Haverford 1008 5 4
47 Humboldt State 992 2 5
48 Cal Tech 979 9 10
49 Winona 967 4 5
50 Kansas State 957 1 4
51 Dartmouth 956 4 8
52 Ohlone College 954 2 10
53 Georgia Tech 943 3 4
54 Williams 927 3 12
55 Harvard 916 2 10
55 U.C.L.A. 916 6 6
57 S.U.N.Y. Albany 892 6 14
58 N.C.State 888 3 5
59 S.U.N.Y. Binghamton 879 1 7
60 Virginia Tech 876 3 3
61 Boston College 855 1 10
62 Rutgers 847 4 11
63 Trinity 845 3 2
64 Johns Hopkins 825 3 6
65 Bucknell 806 2 3
65 Occidental 806 2 3
67 Michigan State 799 4 6
68 St. Mary's 797 4 6
69 Ohio State 782 4 3
70 Purdue 762 8 11
71 Earlham 753 3 7
72 Vasser 714 5 3
73 Cincinatti 710 1 5
74 Duke 690 0 5
75 Penn State 681 3 4
76 Virginia 680 1 6
77 Wake Forest 667 1 7
78 Northwestern 639 1 5
79 Boston Univ. 623 1 9
80 Ball State 618 1 7
81 Miami (Ohio) 605 0 6
82 Pitzer 578 2 13
83 Drew 574 1 8
84 N.Y.U. 536 0 6
84 San Diego State 536 0 5
86 Kalamazoo 527 1 6
87 Maryland 419 0 5
88 Dayton 398 0 8
89 Hope College 384 0 6
90 Drexel 316 1 7
(Note: Santa Barbara beat Stanford in the finals of Nationals that year -- in part because UCSB tanked a game at Nationals -- the following is what I wrote at the time. Perhaps the cut off should have been higher)
Notes: The first question anyone would have is: why is Texas ranked number one? The answer goes to the heart of the flaw in our "system." It's not necessarily the computer formula that is used, but, rather, the fact that there were so few scores called in from the South. Teams that have less than ten games in here can not be rated as accurately as a team that has played nearly 30. Furthermore, no scores were reported that involved Texas and weak competition, which probably would have brought their rating down. As far as Stanford being rated higher than Santa Barbara, much of that was probably due to Santa Barbara's "meaningless" loss to Columbia, 17-9, at Nationals. The computer can't tell which games "mean" more than others. (It's possible that the computer thinks that, except for the overtime College finals, Stanford had a better season than Santa Barbara.) In the Open Division, every team that had five or more games reported is included; scores were not called in from the South Regional. In the Women's Division, the cut-off was three games; score were not called in from the South, Northeast, and West Regionals.
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