Under the new system, there would be an "unranked list" of family and close friends.
In the 2010 pre-season AP poll, LSU was 21st while Mississippi State was unranked.
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No. 3 Duke (pictured), meanwhile, lost to unranked Virginia on Thursday night, continuing a turbulent season at the top.
But Louisville does, every year, sometimes to its detriment, as when the unranked Hilltoppers upset the third-ranked Cardinals in 2008.
Louisville and Rutgers are both unranked, meaning the Golden Flashes will take the final spot with a climb to No. 16.
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And Notre Dame reportedly has another distinction, that of being the first pre-season unranked team making it to the BCS final showdown.
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Higginson is only the second unranked player, after Terry Griffiths in the 1979 World Championship, to appear in the final of a ranking event.
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Giving evidence to the assembly's health committee on Wednesday, Health Minister Lesley Griffiths said she would "reflect" on potential problems with an unranked list.
The data captured a few unranked schools that appeared to vastly outperform their peers in the lower tiers, as well as several ranked schools.
According to STATS, Top 25 teams lost to unranked teams 36 times from Jan. 17 to Feb. 6, the most in at least 17 years.
But it seems the realisation has dawned that the unranked list has the potential to create chaos at exactly the time when it is least needed.
Also, if voters are not familiar with all candidates, and do not rank them all, the unassigned points must be divided up evenly between the unranked candidates.
The Welsh government is proposing to create an unranked list of relatives and friends who would have the right to be involved in decisions about whether to take organs.
Destiny: Already playing with house money, this evening's contest caps an improbable season, which for the Gold and Blue began amidst the green of Ireland, as an unranked team.
With eight North American hotels (Bermuda is unranked) Mandarin Oriental managed four 5-Stars and three 4-Stars, and notably its wonderful Miami hotel was elevated from 4 to 5-Stars this year.
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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.
After Simone Egwu's putback for Virginia, Williams and Alexis Jones scored inside for Duke and the Blue Devils were on their way to their 28th consecutive road victory against an unranked opponent.
But in Peace Corps service, two football powers are bottom feeders: Southern California (unranked, No. 17 in Scout) and Alabama (unranked, No. 3), which had 19 and 10 Peace Corps volunteers, respectively.
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It still takes a lot of skill to get good, but with a fun campaign, a huge selection of custom games and unranked multiplayer, there should be something for everyone at any skill level.
Today, under some forensic questioning, Lesley Griffiths more than hinted that she's getting ready to scrap the plan for the unranked list in the Bill as currently drafted - and instead stick with the ranked list approach currently in place.
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