With the help of Nielsen we then ranked teams by their local market television ratings.
There are eight ranked teams and 13 strong NCAA hopefuls between the tournaments.
John's (15-9, 7-5) had won six of seven, the only loss coming last week at Georgetown, and was 2-2 against ranked teams this season.
Its purpose is to match the two top-ranked teams in a national championship game and to create competitive match-ups in the four other BCS bowl games.
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The Orange had lost four of five coming into the tournament, all to ranked teams, before knocking off Seton Hall, Pittsburgh and Georgetown the past three days.
They are joined by an additional ten teams that have received NCAA Tournament bids and hope to upset higher ranked teams on the road to the Final Four.
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Every four years it's still part of the Ashes, but the rivalry between Australia and India, currently the world's fourth- and second-ranked teams respectively, has become almost as fierce.
The best-ranked teams in each division are promoted to the next-highest division, and at the same time, the worst-ranked teams in the higher division are relegated to the lower division.
The first two weeks of ESPN 3D's inaugural college football season will open up with telecasts involving three of the top five ranked teams in an ESPN.com early preseason Top 25 poll.
How could the dominant No. 1 team, which had already beaten three ranked teams, two decisively, fall all the way to No. 8 by losing to a worthy opponent on the road?
The Orange are seeded behind Notre Dame and Connecticut, while Louisville (23-7, 11-5) dropped to the fourth spot and fell to 1-4 against ranked teams, also losing to Kentucky, UConn and Notre Dame.
The Orange are seeded behind Notre Dame and Connecticut, while Louisville (23-7, 11-5) dropped to the fourth spot and fell to 1-4 this season against ranked teams, also losing to Kentucky, UConn and Notre Dame.
In England's Premier League, for example, at the end of each season when competition points have been accrued, the three bottom-ranked teams will be relegated (demoted) to the level below (in England's case the second-tier Championship).
Now, with the team on a high after the wins over Fiji and Australia this month, Johnstone hopes that coach Andy Robinson can direct his team to a clean sweep in the autumn Tests against higher-ranked teams.
According to data from the Broadcasters' Audience Research Board, the most-watched FA Cup games of the past 20 years, by peak audience, were the 1996 Manchester United-Liverpool final (13.3 million) and the 2005 Arsenal-Manchester United final (12.8 million), while the most popular FA Cup game in history was the 1970 Leeds-Chelsea final, when the country's second and third-ranked teams drew a peak audience of 28.5 million.
The teams ranked one to four in the current world rankings were kept apart by the seeding system, with the next four teams - those ranked fifth to eighth - the second names into each pool.
Of the 50 most valuable teams ranked by Forbes, 41 are American, including all 32 NFL teams.
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There have been 13 teams ranked in the top five this year, the most since 2003-04 (18 teams).
The highest ranked among the 8 teams would play the lowest ranked, and so forth.
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Teams ranked above them domestically were guaranteed a European spot, apart from Europa League finalists Fulham.
Michigan and Ohio State were meeting for the first time with both teams ranked in the top 10.
Of the teams ranked in the BCS Top 25, can you name more of those schools Presidents than you can their football coaches?
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Teams ranked in the Associated Press top five have lost 19 games to unranked opponents, the most since 2006-07 when 20 top-five teams lost to unranked teams, according to Stats LLC.
North Korea and the United Arab Emirates earlier kicked off the Group D schedule with a 0-0 draw at the Qatar Sports Club in match between teams ranked 105th and 108th in the world respectively.
Out of the 345 teams ranked by Pomeroy, No. 1 seeds Syracuse (223), Michigan State (287), Kentucky (306) and North Carolina (340) rank among the bottom in percentage of shots taken from beyond the arc.
The "Dance Card" rankings, as Coleman and Lynch call their system, make a couple of assumptions: All teams ranked 25 or better in the RPI will make the tournament, and no team ranked below 80 will receive an at-large bid.
His teams consistently ranked near the top of the league in walks and on base percentage.
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Granted, it doesn't matter where teams are ranked, since that has no bearing on the NCAA tournament.
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The second is within the boardrooms of the International Cricket Council, where the way teams are ranked is under review.
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