Below are the top 20 U.S. football teams in the seventh and eighth weeks of the 2003 season, along
with the points awarded to each team by the ESPN/USA Today coaches poll. Research question:
At á = .01, based on this data, is there a significant rank correlation between these two variables?
1575 1622
1502 1470
1412 1320
1337 1241
1281 1026
1263 1563
1208 1226
1135 938
951 1378
932 762
881 605
875 727
827 1260
667 487
645 1041
558 924
544 449
490 149
480 246
369 577