Iggy's Week 10 College Football Rankings

[iggymcfly 0]

All right, here are the new rankings

(Previous week's ranking in parenthesis)

 

1. USC 10-0 (1)

2. Texas 10-0 (2)

3. Miami 8-1 (4)

4. Penn State 9-1 (5)

5. Ohio State 8-2 (6)

6. LSU 8-1 (8)

7. Virginia Tech 8-1 (7)

8. Notre Dame 7-2 (9)

9. Auburn 8-2 (18)

10. Oregon 9-1 (10)

11. Alabama 9-1 (3)

12. West Virginia 8-1 (13)

13. Michigan 7-3 (15)

14. Georgia 7-2 (12)

15. UCLA 9-1 (17)

16. TCU 10-1 (21)

17. Minnesota 7-3 (22)

18. Florida State 7-3 (14)

19. Louisville 7-2 (23)

20. Iowa State 7-3 (NR)

21. Fresno State 8-1 (NR)

22. Boston College 7-3 (NR)

23. Wisconsin 8-3 (16)

24. South Carolina 7-3 (NR)

25. Florida 7-3 (11)

[CanadianChris 0]

Why FSU still in the top 20? Yesterday's loss was pretty bad. Come to think of it, none of their losses were particularly good. I think Boston College deserves to be in there more than FSU, even though BC lost to them head to head. FSU is clearly not the team they were at the start of the season.

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

I agree with your top 4, and since Ohio State's only losses have been to our #2 and #4 teams, it's tough to rank them much lower than #5. Either way, LSU and Ohio State would be my 5/6 in some order, and Ohio State's rough Big Ten slate probably puts them an inch above. I think Virginia Tech is a fairly safe #7 as long as they don't look like the Miami game the rest of the year, but I'm also going to keep 'Bama right after them, because this is still a really good team that has just as good a resume as Notre Dame and Auburn, and still has only one (overtime) loss. They lose in the Iron Bowl, then yeah, drop them; they win the Iron Bowl, and I'll have them leapfrog VT. I also still have Georgia above West Virginia, though I'm more convinced by the Mountaineers this week than last.

 

TCU is a good Mountain West team and have the win over a (then very, very shitty) Oklahoma team, but I would probably not have them inside the top 20. Maybe they've been playing great and just haven't been able to see it, who knows. Also, while I like dropping those posers Texas Tech entirely, I think whichever team wins the OU/Texas Tech game will deserve a place at the end of the rankings, around #23-25.

 

I'm also with Chris on FSU (2-3 over their last 5, with the losses getting progressively more embarrassing), though thinking about it it's tough to think of who'd go above them. Iowa State is playing great and I'll push them up, but I have a tough time moving up a BC team that's struggled similarly and lost to FSU, or a South Carolina team that's truly gotten mauled a couple times this year but has turned it on lately. FSU can stay juuuust inside the top 20 (especially since I'm probably dropping TCU), but South Carolina over Clemson would earn the Gamecocks a leapfrog unless FSU really, really annihilates Florida.

[iggymcfly 0]

I think Florida State's still fairly legitimate. They only let up after they knew they'd clinched the ACC Atlantic division title. The thing about the Clemson game is that they really didn't have much to play for as it didn't affect their ultimate bowl destiny at all. Even with the recent losses, I'm still pretty sure that they're more talented than teams like Wisconsin and South Carolina. The head to head road win in a hyped matchup against Boston College works in their favor as well.

 

The thing about Bama is that they've gotten almost all their big games at home, and they still picked up the loss against LSU. In fact, at this point, the only ranked teams that Bama has beaten are South Carolina and Florida, (#24 and #25 respectively). When I look at the SEC pecking order, I can't honestly say that they're ahead of Auburn right now, especially with the Tigers coming off the huge road victory against Georgia. Oregon's got a similar (somewhat weak) resume, but when you're only loss is to USC, you're more likely to get the benefit of the doubt.

 

As for TCU, they have ben really impressive lately. They've won 9 in a row, despite playing in the highest rated mid-major conference against quite a quality slate, winning by blowouts whenever the stakes are high. With a chance to clinch the conference title last week, (not this week), they beat Colorado State 33-6. Even though they are somewhat unproven, I just honestly believe the Horned Frogs are that talented. Also, as has been stated previously, Oklahoma's "bad losses" have all come against teams currently ranked in the Top 16, so there's really no reason to illegitimize that as a quality win.

[UZI Suicide 0]

Iowa State shouldn't be ranked.

[Guest Leelee]

I think that the higher FSU should be Fresno State.

 

Granted, most of their schedule has been the very weak bottom half of the WAC... but, their only loss is a tight one at a top 10 team in Oregon. And they crushed their opponents in other tough games, Boise State and Toledo.

[iggymcfly 0]

Iowa State shouldn't be ranked.

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They're 4-0 with Stevie Hicks including wins over Iowa and Colorado. I don't think it's fair to penalize them too much for what happened while he was injured.

 

As for Fresno State, I think the Seminoles might be undefeated with their schedule. The Noles were playing well early in the year, and probably would have beaten Oregon. It was only the grind of playing good ACC teams week in and week out that finally wore them down. Fresno basically lost to a good team, beat a mediocre team, and then got a month and a half off before beating another mediocre team.

 

I mean they seem to be talented, but there so untested, that it's hard to make a case that they deserve to be ranked ahead of Florida State.