| WEEK 8 RANKINGS |
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1. |
Oklahoma |
197.990 |
| Road Score 1 |
198.350 |
| Road Score 2 |
198.175 |
| Road Score 3 |
198.075 |
| Home/Road Score 1 |
198.025 |
| Home/Road Score 2 |
197.925 |
| Home/Road Score 3 |
197.750 |
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- OU’s 4th 198 of the season on Sunday (198.175), following a Friday 197.675, cinches a program-best RQS. A 198.100 this coming weekend in Michigan would give the Sooners the all-time RQS record.
- Nichols missed her shot at a 40 by sitting for meet 2 of the weekend, Senior Day Pt 2: Texas Edition, as Lehrmann and Wofford both received first-career 10s on UB.
- Jackson and Capps both scored career-high-tying 9.975s on FX at the same meet.
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2. |
LSU |
197.695 |
| Road Score 1 |
197.700 |
| Road Score 2 |
197.700 |
| Road Score 3 |
197.675 |
| Home/Road Score 1 |
197.975 |
| Home/Road Score 2 |
197.825 |
| Home/Road Score 3 |
197.575 |
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- LSU remains comfortably in 2nd with an away 197.675 at Auburn. With all the scores fairly tightly bunched in the high 197s, LSU’s RQS is unlikely to change all that much in the coming weeks.
- 9.950s from Finnegan (BB) and Gnat (VT, FX) led the team. Hambrick returned to hitting ways to lead the AA. Edney did not compete.
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3. |
Florida |
197.495 |
| Road Score 1 |
197.425 |
| Road Score 2 |
197.325 |
| Road Score 3 |
197.125 |
| Home/Road Score 1 |
197.975 |
| Home/Road Score 2 |
197.900 |
| Home/Road Score 3 |
197.700 |
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- The Gators recorded a second-consecutive home 197.9, featuring Alex McMurtry’s first FX 10 and fifth 10 of her career.
- Hundley went 9.975 on UB and 39.675 in the AA, while Baker remains limited to only UB.
- In RQS, while the home scores are stronger than LSU’s, the road scores lag behind, which takes some of the friction out of this weekend’s visit to LSU as Florida cannot pass LSU in the rankings even with a season-high. A strong road score will still be necessary, however, to ensure fending off UCLA and company.
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4. |
UCLA |
197.305 |
| Road Score 1 |
197.500 |
| Road Score 2 |
197.325 |
| Road Score 3 |
197.150 |
| Home/Road Score 1 |
198.125 |
| Home/Road Score 2 |
197.725 |
| Home/Road Score 3 |
196.825 |
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- The Bruins were able to erase that 195 from Monday with a 197.725 against Arizona over the weekend, accounting for the two-spot jump in the rankings.
- Hallie Mossett’s career-high 9.975 on FX led the team, along with Kocian’s 9.950 on FX and season-high-tying 39.625 AA and Ross’s 9.950s on UB and BB.
- It is possible for UCLA to pass Florida this coming week, but it would take at least a 197.800 along with a weak showing from Florida, so it’s not the most likely outcome. The focus will be on staying ahead of Utah and Alabama. A 197.450 guarantees UCLA remains 4th.
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5. |
Utah |
197.180 |
| Road Score 1 |
197.600 |
| Road Score 2 |
197.150 |
| Road Score 3 |
196.900 |
| Home/Road Score 1 |
197.875 |
| Home/Road Score 2 |
197.625 |
| Home/Road Score 3 |
196.625 |
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- Utah recorded its own 197.600 at Arizona State, featuring Tom Farden’s literal dreamscape of how UB scoring might go that culminated in a 9.975 for Lee and 9.950s for Lewis and Skinner.
- Skinner scored three 9.950s for a 39.750 AA total.
- Utah can’t catch Florida this weekend, and with UCLA having a higher max RQS, the #4 ranking is in the Bruins’ hands. Utah is looking at needing to outscore UCLA by a little under a half point to move ahead.
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6. |
Alabama |
197.085 |
| Road Score 1 |
197.225 |
| Road Score 2 |
197.050 |
| Road Score 3 |
196.700 |
| Home/Road Score 1 |
197.825 |
| Home/Road Score 2 |
197.350 |
| Home/Road Score 3 |
197.100 |
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- Alabama’s home 196.925 over the weekend was not high enough to break into the RQS picture, allowing for both UCLA and Utah to pass.
- Limited without Winston, it was all a little too 9.850, though Sims, Desch, and Bailey did provide 9.925s (FX, FX, VT).
- Alabama heads to Georgia this week, needing at least a 197.200 to have a chance at passing Utah, but probably needing more than that to do it in reality.
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7. |
Denver |
196.875 |
| Road Score 1 |
196.900 |
| Road Score 2 |
196.875 |
| Road Score 3 |
196.500 |
| Home/Road Score 1 |
197.150 |
| Home/Road Score 2 |
197.125 |
| Home/Road Score 3 |
196.975 |
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- Denver continued its assault on the name-teams with a 196.975 home score, following a 196.900 away total in a two-meet weekend.
- Meet 2 was led by 9.950s from Karr on VT and Ross on BB and 9.925 from Chesnok on UB.
- The lack of any of those big-team scores in the higher 197s inhibits Denver’s chances to move any higher for the moment, but also SEVENTH IN THE RANKINGS.
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8. |
Georgia |
196.820 |
| Road Score 1 |
196.975 |
| Road Score 2 |
196.925 |
| Road Score 3 |
196.800 |
| Home/Road Score 1 |
197.075 |
| Home/Road Score 2 |
196.875 |
| Home/Road Score 3 |
196.525 |
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- Georgia scored another 196.9 on the road at Oklahoma but fell behind Denver by a hair, almost entirely on account of not having a 197 that counts. With Denver at home this coming weekend and unable to drop its lowest score, however, Georgia has the inside track to regain #7.
- Snead’s 9.950 on VT and Marino’s equivalent score on FX led the team, as they so often do, in a meet where BB was the highest rotation score. Almost like Georgia is good on beam. Brand new world. It’s really vault and bars that we have to worry about.
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9. |
Oregon State
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196.635 |
| Road Score 1 |
197.125 |
| Road Score 2 |
196.825 |
| Road Score 3 |
196.200 |
| Home/Road Score 1 |
196.900 |
| Home/Road Score 2 |
196.700 |
| Home/Road Score 3 |
196.550 |
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- A season-high 197 away at Stanford sees Oregon State gain another spot in the rankings. Unable to drop that away 196.2 until Pac-12s (only remaining road meet), however, it may be difficult for OSU to keep up this spot and fend off the challenging teams with similar bold scores.
- It was Gardiner taking the AA over McMillan in the great OSU AA battle this weekend, with 9.925 on BB and 9.900 on FX. Colussi-Pelaez also performed career-best routines on BB and FX, both for 9.900.
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10. |
Boise State |
196.605 |
| Road Score 1 |
197.075 |
| Road Score 2 |
196.700 |
| Road Score 3 |
196.675 |
| Home/Road Score 1 |
197.025 |
| Home/Road Score 2 |
196.400 |
| Home/Road Score 3 |
196.225 |
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- A 196.675 away at Alabama allows Boise State to drop a 195.300 from the first meet and move up two spots in the rankings. Unlike Oregon State, Boise State will have a chance to drop its 196.2 this weekend.
- Means limited to one event and McGregor to two inhibited BSU’s scoring potential, though both did still manage team-high-tying 9.875s (BB, VT respectively)
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11. |
Kentucky |
196.535 |
| Road Score 1 |
196.950 |
| Road Score 2 |
196.150 |
| Road Score 3 |
195.850 |
| Home/Road Score 1 |
197.475 |
| Home/Road Score 2 |
197.100 |
| Home/Road Score 3 |
196.625 |
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- A bit of a missed opportunity for Kentucky after a 9.7-heavy floor rotation over the weekend still resulted in a usable 196.625 to keep the #11 spot.
- The winner of the weekly four-woman AA battle was Hyland, using 9.900 on BB and 9.875 on FX to sneak ahead with 39.375.
- Korth’s 9.925 on VT still led the team across all events.
- With that 195.850 available to be dropped this weekend, Kentucky does have the most likely path among the 9-12 teams to get back to #9.
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11. |
Michigan |
196.535 |
| Road Score 1 |
196.475 |
| Road Score 2 |
196.025 |
| Road Score 3 |
195.725 |
| Home/Road Score 1 |
197.825 |
| Home/Road Score 2 |
197.225 |
| Home/Road Score 3 |
197.225 |
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- Michigan exploded for a 197.825 over the weekend, and everyone was like, “Whaaa?” and they were like, “Yeah.” That’s exactly what happened.
- Everyone ever got a 9.9, including the whole floor rotation, and Karas took the AA with 39.600.
- Michigan falls in the rankings because that 197.825 can’t be counted, but it does open up a little more room for the Wolverines to move up even with a home meet this weekend, though the real work will be done the following two weeks in getting rid of those low road scores. Though Michigan has fallen to a tie for 11th for now, a late surge toward #7 is still quite realistic.
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13. |
Nebraska |
196.450 |
| Road Score 1 |
197.125 |
| Road Score 2 |
196.550 |
| Road Score 3 |
196.050 |
| Home/Road Score 1 |
197.125 |
| Home/Road Score 2 |
196.825 |
| Home/Road Score 3 |
195.700 |
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- Nebraska continues providing a good example of how a small and fairly injured roster can peak at the right time, erasing that tragic start with yet another 197.
- Taylor Houchin is the real deal, scoring 39.650 in the AA, the #3 total of the week, even while leading off two events.
- Nebraska is off this coming weekend but has opened up enough of a gap over the trailing teams to stay ranking safe.
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14. |
Iowa |
196.150 |
| Road Score 1 |
196.550 |
| Road Score 2 |
196.400 |
| Road Score 3 |
196.175 |
| Home/Road Score 1 |
196.475 |
| Home/Road Score 2 |
195.975 |
| Home/Road Score 3 |
195.725 |
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- Iowa traveled to the land of season-highs over the weekend to get 196.550 at BYU, featuring 9.925s for Snyder and Youd on FX and BB.
- The Hawkeyes cannot move up even with a season high in the next meet, but you know, 14th. The real trick will be remaining ahead of the rest because teams 14-21 could basically end up in any order next Monday.
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15. |
Missouri |
196.145 |
| Road Score 1 |
196.750 |
| Road Score 2 |
196.350 |
| Road Score 3 |
196.225 |
| Home/Road Score 1 |
196.225 |
| Home/Road Score 2 |
196.075 |
| Home/Road Score 3 |
195.825 |
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- Missouri went to the true and eternal Land of Season-High Road Scores, Florida, for a 196.750, a score that can’t yet be counted and therefore didn’t prevent a drop in the rankings. Missouri has scored consistently this year, but RQS doesn’t so much care about that. RQS cares about big scores.
- Surprise, surprise, Britney Ward was the team’s leading scorer, but this time it came from a 9.950 on BB, not on VT, a score achieved mid-McMurtry-hoopla.
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16. |
George Washington |
196.140 |
| Road Score 1 |
196.725 |
| Road Score 2 |
196.150 |
| Road Score 3 |
196.000 |
| Home/Road Score 1 |
196.400 |
| Home/Road Score 2 |
196.050 |
| Home/Road Score 3 |
196.000 |
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- Similarly, George Washington snatched a massive 196.7 on the road over the weekend but can’t count it and therefore stays relatively steady in the rankings. In gymnastics, it isn’t real unless you do it twice.
- Winstanley was the big winner of this meet, going 9.925 on UB and 9.900 on BB for a 39.550 AA total.
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17. |
Washington |
196.130 |
| Road Score 1 |
196.450 |
| Road Score 2 |
195.825 |
| Road Score 3 |
195.325 |
| Home/Road Score 1 |
197.175 |
| Home/Road Score 2 |
196.750 |
| Home/Road Score 3 |
196.300 |
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- A fine-but-frustrating 196.450 for Washington does the job in erasing a low road score but could have been higher if not for vault errors.
- A 195.325 still to drop this weekend, however, gives Washington another shot at it and the best opportunity among this bunch of teams to move up the rankings with a solid result. Theoretically, Washington could even go ahead of Nebraska with a season-high.
- Burleson records another nationally competitive AA score of 39.475, achieving 9.900 on FX and another couple scores among the bushel of 9.875s that Washington received.
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18. |
Auburn |
196.090 |
| Road Score 1 |
196.450 |
| Road Score 2 |
196.400 |
| Road Score 3 |
195.800 |
| Home/Road Score 1 |
196.100 |
| Home/Road Score 2 |
196.075 |
| Home/Road Score 3 |
196.075 |
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- A fine-not-great 196.100 at home against LSU keeps Auburn stuck in low-196 land and opens up what is becoming a very real possibility that this depleted team may end up unseeded unless the scores start heading into the higher 196s.
- This weekend’s highlight was an exceptionally well-executed BB routine from Krippner that reached 9.925.
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19. |
Cal |
196.000 |
| Road Score 1 |
196.400 |
| Road Score 2 |
195.725 |
| Road Score 3 |
195.550 |
| Home/Road Score 1 |
197.075 |
| Home/Road Score 2 |
196.300 |
| Home/Road Score 3 |
196.025 |
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- Keeping up with the Washingtons in their duel to see which team makes the evening at Pac-12s, Cal also recorded a fine-not-great 196.4 on the road to drop a low road total and will be looking to drop another one this weekend. TWINSIES.
- Lead-off BB routines scoring 9.925 was kind of a thing suddenly, and Sofie Seilnacht joined Houchin and Howard (AZ) on that parade with a team-leading score that took Cal to its best event total.
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20. |
Illinois |
195.995 |
| Road Score 1 |
196.625 |
| Road Score 2 |
196.050 |
| Road Score 3 |
195.450 |
| Home/Road Score 1 |
196.550 |
| Home/Road Score 2 |
196.025 |
| Home/Road Score 3 |
195.900 |
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- A mixed-bag of meets for Illinois this weekend, beginning with a season-high road 196.625 and ending with a bars fall of a 195.450 that still has to be counted, keeping Illinois down in the rankings for the time being.
- The first meet, the good one, featured Leduc going 9.925 on BB and FX, while the second meet…had a lot of 9.7s.
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21. |
Southern Utah
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195.915 |
| Road Score 1 |
196.600 |
| Road Score 2 |
195.800 |
| Road Score 3 |
194.325 |
| Home/Road Score 1 |
196.725 |
| Home/Road Score 2 |
196.700 |
| Home/Road Score 3 |
196.150 |
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- Well, look who decided to show up. Southern Utah finally has an RQS after deigning to compete a third time on the road for 196.600. Because of that 194.325, this ranking is misleadingly low and will remain so until SUU’s two-meet road weekend beginning March 10th. Watch out for a late surge from this one.
- It was a 9.875-parade that took SUU to the 196.600 total, though I was most impressed by Becky Rozsa’s 9.850 on UB.
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22. |
Utah State
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195.775 |
| Road Score 1 |
196.200 |
| Road Score 2 |
195.725 |
| Road Score 3 |
195.700 |
| Home/Road Score 1 |
196.300 |
| Home/Road Score 2 |
195.850 |
| Home/Road Score 3 |
195.400 |
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- Apparently, everything is coming up Utah as Utah State continued challenging the big girls with a 196.200 road score in a third-place finish in Nebraska.
- Madison Ward’s 9.900 led the team, aided by Peel’s 9.875 on BB.
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23. |
Arizona |
195.680 |
| Road Score 1 |
196.275 |
| Road Score 2 |
195.650 |
| Road Score 3 |
195.425 |
| Home/Road Score 1 |
196.100 |
| Home/Road Score 2 |
195.850 |
| Home/Road Score 3 |
195.375 |
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- Finally able to get rid of a hideous early-season 193, Arizona moves up closer to a rank the quality of the team merits after a season-high visit to UCLA.
- Like Seilnacht for Cal, it was Krysten Howard’s lead-off BB score of 9.925 that caught the eye for Arizona, especially because it originally received 9.725, like the judges finally decided to be super critical, but just for her and never again. Schenider also landed her FX passes as well as she ever has for 9.900.
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24. |
Eastern Michigan
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195.670 |
| Road Score 1 |
195.925 |
| Road Score 2 |
195.400 |
| Road Score 3 |
195.325 |
| Home/Road Score 1 |
196.000 |
| Home/Road Score 2 |
195.950 |
| Home/Road Score 3 |
195.750 |
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- After a couple rough early-season meets, EMU is starting to peck around that 196 mark and has been rewarded by reentering the top 25.
- Kendall Valentin’s UB routine has been a staple of the unheralded routines section below, but no more now that EMU is into the 25. She did lead the team once again with a 9.925 this weekend, obviously.
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25. |
Ohio State |
195.595 |
| Road Score 1 |
196.450 |
| Road Score 2 |
195.950 |
| Road Score 3 |
194.375 |
| Home/Road Score 1 |
196.075 |
| Home/Road Score 2 |
195.800 |
| Home/Road Score 3 |
195.775 |
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- Ohio State drops a number of places after a home 195.225, featuring a three-fall beam catastrophe for 47.850, that couldn’t be counted. This does seem to be a temporary state because of the very low road score that can still be dropped, so expect Ohio State to move back up as early as this weekend’s visit to Denver.
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