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Following its 29-26 win against Pittsburgh, Notre Dame dropped one spot in the BCS Rankings and are now No. 4.
The Irish were leapfrogged by Oregon, who beat No. 17 USC 62-51 on Saturday. Notre Dame needed three overtimes to get past Pittsburgh, with the close result likely hurting them in the computer rankings. After being ranked first or second in all six of the computer rankings last week, Notre Dame was ranked third in two of the polls this week.
While the Irish's BCS ranking dropped slightly, Oregon also improved. The Fighting Irish had a BCS average score of .9050 in Week 11, down from .9147 last week. Oregon improved its BCS average, going up from .9136 to .9166. Once again, there was a significant drop following the No. 4 team with No. 5 Geogria well behind Notre Dame at .8171.
Even though there was some change in the top 5, Alabama and Kansas State remained the top two teams in the BCS standings. Alabama had an average BCS score of .9957 in Week 11 while Kansas State came in at .9318. The complete Week 11 BCS standings can be found below.
| BCS | Harris Poll | USA Today | Computer Rankings | ||||||||||||||
| RK | TEAM | AVG | PVS | RK | PTS | % | RK | PTS | % | AVG | A&H | RB | CM | KM | JS | PW | % |
| 1 | Alabama | .9957 | 1 | 1 | 2867 | .9972 | 1 | 1475 | 1.0000 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | .990 |
| 2 | Kansas State | .9318 | 2 | 3 | 2664 | .9266 | 3 | 1370 | .9288 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | .940 |
| 3 | Oregon | .9166 | 4 | 2 | 2735 | .9513 | 2 | 1399 | .9485 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 4 | .850 |
| 4 | Notre Dame | .9050 | 3 | 4 | 2533 | .8810 | 4 | 1289 | .8739 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | .960 |
| 5 | Georgia | .8171 | 6 | 5 | 2345 | .8157 | 5 | 1218 | .8258 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 6 | .810 |
| 6 | Florida | .7863 | 7 | 7 | 2154 | .7492 | 7 | 1091 | .7397 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | .870 |
| 7 | LSU | .7054 | 5 | 8 | 2011 | .6995 | 9 | 998 | .6766 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 7 | .740 |
| 8 | South Carolina | .6206 | 8 | 11 | 1654 | .5753 | 11 | 880 | .5966 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 10 | .690 |
| 9 | Louisville | .6040 | 10 | 10 | 1825 | .6348 | 10 | 940 | .6373 | 13 | 10 | 14 | 8 | 15 | 23 | 11 | .540 |
| 10 | Florida State | .5969 | 9 | 6 | 2223 | .7732 | 6 | 1147 | .7776 | 19 | 18 | 20 | 15 | 25 | 0 | 17 | .240 |
| 11 | Oregon State | .5965 | 11 | 12 | 1588 | .5523 | 12 | 807 | .5471 | 8 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 10 | 8 | .690 |
| 12 | Oklahoma | .5812 | 12 | 13 | 1556 | .5412 | 13 | 800 | .5424 | 10 | 12 | 9 | 16 | 8 | 8 | 9 | .660 |
| 13 | Clemson | .5772 | 13 | 9 | 1969 | .6849 | 8 | 1013 | .6868 | 16 | 16 | 13 | 14 | 23 | 0 | 15 | .360 |
| 14 | Stanford | .5086 | 14 | 14 | 1431 | .4977 | 15 | 705 | .4780 | 12 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 12 | 12 | 14 | .550 |
| 15 | Texas A&M | .5060 | 16 | 15 | 1320 | .4591 | 14 | 736 | .4990 | 11 | 13 | 16 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 13 | .560 |
| 16 | Nebraska | .3976 | 20 | 16 | 992 | .3450 | 16 | 513 | .3478 | 14 | 15 | 17 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 12 | .500 |
| 17 | Texas | .3593 | 23 | 17 | 860 | .2991 | 17 | 485 | .3288 | 15 | 14 | 11 | 18 | 16 | 13 | 16 | .450 |
| 18 | UCLA | .2533 | NR | 21 | 587 | .2042 | 19 | 333 | .2258 | 17 | 17 | 0 | 17 | 18 | 18 | 18 | .330 |
| 19 | USC | .1706 | 17 | 18 | 690 | .2400 | 22 | 224 | .1519 | 23 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 21 | 19 | 24 | .120 |
| 20 | Louisiana Tech | .1584 | 25 | 19 | 659 | .2292 | 18 | 363 | .2461 | 30 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
| 21 | Mississippi State | .1453 | 15 | 20 | 603 | .2097 | 23 | 186 | .1261 | 25 | 23 | 0 | 20 | 24 | 22 | 25 | .100 |
| 22 | Texas Tech | .1422 | 18 | 25 | 203 | .0706 | NR | 68 | .0461 | 18 | 19 | 15 | 0 | 19 | 15 | 20 | .310 |
| 23 | Rutgers | .1214 | NR | 22 | 475 | .1652 | 20 | 264 | .1790 | 28 | 24 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .020 |
| 24 | Northwestern | .0962 | NR | 24 | 259 | .0901 | 21 | 234 | .1586 | 27 | 21 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .040 |
| 25 | Toledo | .0796 | NR | NR | 160 | .0557 | 25 | 108 | .0732 | 24 | 22 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 19 | .110 |