CFR's Top Teams List: Week Nine

As always, these are power rankings.

1. Ohio State---Cruise control
2. Michigan---Laying low
3. West Virginia---Can almost smell the desert air
4. Tennessee---Choppy
5. California---Three weeks to USC
6. Florida---Choppy
7. Auburn---Choppy
8. USC---Had 'em pegged
9. Notre Dame---Found a third receiver
10. Texas---Had 'em pegged
11. Louisville---Still undefeated
12. Arkansas---Fire Coach Nutt!!! Er...
13. Clemson---Being in the top 10 too much to handle
14. LSU---Lurking
15. Wisconsin---Choppy

Lurking
Rutgers, Oklahoma, Boise State, Texas A&M 

Comments

[BC]

Where's Boston College? Not even lurking? Below Clemson? Do you watch anything besides Pac 10 football?

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Clemson's in the Pac 10? Since when?

[Hold'EmandHook'Em]

Boston College does not even deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as teams such as Ohio State, WVU, Texas, USC, Michigan, Florida, Tenn., Notre Dame, even Louisville. All these teams would blow BC out of the stadium - a win by 21 or more.

[Paxil]

no way you just kept USC in the top10.

[CFR]

I've watched nearly every BC game this year.

Paxil,

See my entry above about USC and Texas.

[BC]

Did you watch the game where Boston College beat Clemson, a team in front of them on this mess of a list?

[patrick]

imagine that..every sec team is "choppy"...too funny. Florida, ahead of a team that beat them 2 weeks ago, and has the same record. Arkansas behind them all...what gives?

[CFR]

And USC's ahead of Oregon State on this "mess" of a list.

Yes I did watch that game. I saw BC get lucky with a special teams kick return touchdown in that game to keep it close.

Folks, can't stress this enough, these are power rankings. I don't rank teams based on this weird slotting by losses concept. It's fruitless.

Auburn beat Florida at home, thanks to probably the wildest crowd outside of Tennessee's opening night against California.

Once they got away from that game they've gone out and been pretty average for themselves. To me that says that Florida was in fact the better team and ran into a buzzsaw on that specific night.

[Cupcakes]

If ">" is "beats" and ">>" is "kills", then we get:

Cal >> OreSt > USC >> Ark >> Aub > Fla > Tenn >> Cal

Does it mean than Cal would kill Cal if they were to play right now?

Who should be ranked ahead of whom based on heah-to-head alone?

[Brooks]

I'd really like to know what completely deranged method you use to rank Texas at #10 in your power poll? You either have no clue about what a top team is made of or you have jumped on the Big 10 smoke and mirrors wagon. Look..I know UT lost the 2nd matchup in the series at home, but gimme a break... We went in the horeshoe and beat them as well. It was the 2nd game a RS Freshman had ever played in college. He needed more reps to be ready for that stage. Also, if you watched the game, we were running all over them in the 1st half...like butter. I blame Greg Davis for that completely. He has needed to go for a while. I guess when you have Vince, who made most of his major impact by improvisation, you get jaded. What is the logic though of going from a successful ground game in the 1st half...to panic FUBAR mode? A clear case of being out coached offensively.

IN ANY CASE...my point is, we have only lost to the #1 team in the nation. That is all. There is NO reason we should not be the top ranked 1 loss team....NONE.

Another note...Louisville should not be ranked as high as they are. Conference USA? Gimme a break. Yes, they beat Miami, which is probably the worst UM team I have ever seen...EVER. And West Virginia...please. That pansy 'so called' Heisman candidate Slaton sat out for 5 minutes in the 2nd half. UNREAL, no heart.

I give OSU credit for coming to Austin and taking it to us, but the only way this season will be legit in my eyes is if Texas and Ohio St. strap it on again. Our young quarterback has grown by leaps and bounds. I'll take all bets....GO HORNS!!

[patrick's crow feast]

for your digestion...

Muschamp, a former NFL assistant, will install a package that Auburn has not run all year. The players are able to pick up on it because they ran it in two-a-days. The other teams don’t know what is coming because Auburn has yet to show that blitz package yet.

Auburn is third in the conference in overall defense (276 yards allowed) and third in sacks (25). Georgia coach Mark Richt said it has become evident that Muschamp is using his NFL knowledge at this level. Georgia has only one coach with NFL coaching experience on its roster: Jon Fabris, defensive ends coach, spent time with the Cleveland Browns.