11.   Or it could simply rank the teams according to their winning percentage over several years.

12.   Recruiting classes have always been ranked at the end of the recruiting season just as the teams are ranked during the season.

13.   That was the order in which those teams were ranked in the polls going into the bowls.

14.   The baseball team is ranked in the top five.

15.   The Big East rules state that if no team is ranked, the bowl gets to pick its team.

16.   The lower the total, the higher the team is ranked.

17.   The partial soccer matches Saturday were held to rank teams by ability for further competition.

18.   The RPI is a system that ranks teams by weighing records, conferences and strength of schedule.

19.   The team is ranked seventh.

20.   The teams are ranked according to their predicted order of finish, which, in years past, has been wholly imprecise.