2014 Week 5 Rankings

Here are my latest rankings for Week 5:

Preseason						Equal
Ranking	Team	Record	Points	Prev		Ranking	Team	Record	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma	4 - 0	209	1		1	Notre Dame	4 - 0	94	7
1	Oregon	4 - 0	209	1		2	Ole Miss	4 - 0	88	9
3	Baylor	4 - 0	206	5		3	Oklahoma	4 - 0	87	1
4	Alabama	4 - 0	203	3		3	Baylor	4 - 0	87	10
4	Texas A&M	5 - 0	203	4		5	Mississippi St.	4 - 0	86	2
6	Ole Miss	4 - 0	199	8		6	BYU	4 - 0	82	3
7	Auburn	4 - 0	198	9		6	Marshall	4 - 0	82	3
8	Notre Dame	4 - 0	192	10		8	Nebraska	5 - 0	81	11
9	Nebraska	5 - 0	190	12		9	Alabama	4 - 0	76	6
10	Marshall	4 - 0	179	7		10	Auburn	4 - 0	75	17
11	LSU	4 - 1	177	16		11	Oregon	4 - 0	70	8
11	UCLA	4 - 0	177	22		12	Louisville	4 - 1	68	14
13	Michigan St.	3 - 1	174	19		13	Duke	4 - 1	67	5
14	Florida St.	4 - 0	170	20		14	Maryland	4 - 1	64	29
15	Duke	4 - 1	168	6		15	LSU	4 - 1	63	26
16	Ohio St.	3 - 1	167	23		16	Missouri	4 - 1	60	17
17	Mississippi St.	4 - 0	166	13		17	Texas	3 - 1	59	35
18	Missouri	4 - 1	164	14		18	Ga. Southern	3 - 2	58	31
18	Stanford	3 - 1	164	20		19	Arizona	4 - 0	57	14
20	Georgia	3 - 1	161	15		20	Texas A&M	4 - 1	56	20
20	Wisconsin	3 - 1	161	24		21	Temple	3 - 1	54	38
22	USC	3 - 1	160	26		22	Utah	3 - 1	53	13
23	Miami (FL)	4 - 1	159	25		23	Georgia Tech	4 - 0	50	22
24	BYU	4 - 0	155	17		24	Arkansas	3 - 2	47	24
25	TCU	3 - 0	151	33		24	Kentucky	3 - 1	47	33
						24	Stanford	3 - 1	47	36
						24	Minnesota	4 - 1	47	43

2014 Week 4 Rankings

Almost half of the Top 25 were idle this week so there will be a lot of shuffling in my polls this week since you don't get any points if you don't play and therefore will move down in the polls.  I know Duke & Marshall are ranked in the Top 10 of my polls, but you have to remember the 1st four weeks of the season teams are playing FCS and weak FBS schools so you will see them drop in the polls going forward unless they upset good teams.  However, Marshall might be an anomaly since they have a pretty weak schedule so there's a good chance they will go undefeated.  They could still drop since there are good teams behind them that could make up points quickly by playing better opponents and getting bonus points for playing ranked teams.  Here are this week's rankings:

Welcome to the 2014 College Football Season Big Ten

With their 2nd big weekend where they could show some pride, the Big Ten stepped up BIG time.  The only embarrassing loss was Michigan losing at home to Utah 26-10.  Everybody else won their games including some good wins Indiana winning at Missouri 31-27, Iowa winning at Pitt 24-20 and Maryland winning at Syracuse 34-20.  All of the other wins were against inferior teams and they should've won those games.

Week 3 Recap

For me personally, it was not a good week since my team USC played horribly in all three phases of the game and lost 31-37 to Boston College.  I have to give credit to BC.   They played an amazing game and was solid in the trenches on both sides of the ball.  Sure, I can make excuses that they had to travel all the way to the east coast and play a night game.   I could also use the excuse of the limited scholarships due to the Reggie Bush sanctions or how because of the difficult game against Stanford and the depleted roster with no depth, the defense was exhausted having to play the whole game with limited substitutions.  Also, I could use the excuse of the playing of so many true freshmen with very little game experience.   I won't do that though, since it does not give credit where credit is due. Boston College outplayed and out-coached USC.   They were the better team and deserved to win.

2014 Week 3 Rankings

Here are the new rankings based off of the results of Week 3.  As mentioned before, don't be concerned if a team that was highly ranked drops a lot of spots and they didn't play.  My rankings are points-based and teams only get points for playing.  Since both Auburn, Michigan St & Florida St had byes this week, they didn't get any points while others did.  They will make up the points next week when they play and jump up in the polls.

Preseason						Equal
Ranking	Team	Record	Points	Prev		Ranking	Team	Record	Points	Prev
1	Oregon	3 - 0	197	1		1	Notre Dame	3 - 0	75	2
2	Oklahoma	3 - 0	192	2		2	Mississippi St.	3 - 0	74	3
3	Alabama	3 - 0	182	4		3	BYU	3 - 0	73	1
4	Baylor	3 - 0	181	6		4	Oklahoma	3 - 0	70	4
5	Ole Miss	3 - 0	178	5		5	Ole Miss	3 - 0	67	4
6	Texas A&M	3 - 0	174	8		6	Missouri	3 - 0	63	9
7	Notre Dame	3 - 0	173	7		7	Baylor	3 - 0	62	13
8	Arizona St.	3 - 0	170	10		8	Arizona St.	3 - 0	60	10
9	Missouri	3 - 0	167	11		9	Duke	3 - 0	59	11
10	Auburn	2 - 0	165	3		10	Oregon	3 - 0	58	13
11	LSU	3 - 0	163	14		10	Pittsburgh	3 - 0	58	17
12	Duke	3 - 0	159	15		12	Marshall	3 - 0	57	17
13	Nebraska	3 - 0	156	22		13	Alabama	3 - 0	55	21
14	Marshall	3 - 0	154	20		14	Arizona	3 - 0	52	7
15	Mississippi St.	3 - 0	153	25		15	Nebraska	3 - 0	49	34
16	Miami (FL)	3 - 0	150	23		16	Northern Ill.	3 - 0	48	25
16	Stanford	2 - 1	150	23		17	LSU	3 - 0	47	29
18	UCLA	3 - 0	149	13		18	Auburn	2 - 0	43	8
19	Florida St.	2 - 0	148	8		19	Georgia Tech	3 - 0	42	13
20	BYU	3 - 0	146	16		20	North Carolina St.	3 - 0	40	45
20	Ohio St.	2 - 1	146	28		21	Tennessee	2 - 1	39	11
22	USC	2 - 1	139	11		22	Utah	2 - 0	37	13
23	Georgia	1 - 1	136	17		23	Kentucky	2 - 1	36	21
24	Kansas St.	2 - 0	134	19		24	Michigan	2 - 1	35	48
24	Washington	3 - 0	134	31		24	Louisiana Tech	2 - 1	35	60

Penn St Sanctions Being Lifted

For those of you following this blog, you know I'm a USC fan. You might think I strongly disagree with what happened today based on what happened to USC, and you're right and wrong.  First off, I think the Penn St penalties were very harsh, too harsh in my opinion.  I think the NCAA needed to save face and get in front of this because of their poor handling of previous punishments handed out (such as USC, Oregon, Miami, Ohio St, North Carolina, etc.).  The problem is that they rushed this and issued punishments without doing any investigations on their own.

New AP & Coaches Poll - Week 2

I've updated the 'Weekly AP & Coaches Polls' page with week 2 polls.  I'm a little surprised BYU isn't get any love in the Coaches poll.  What else do they need to do?  They have gone across country to beat UConn (I know UConn isn't much, but at least they're an FBS team) and then destroy Texas on their home field.  Sure, Texas is depleted with their starting QB & center out along with a couple other linemen that were suspended, but 41-7 on the road is still pretty impressive.  Next week, UCLA goes to Texas to play the Longhorns and I guarantee the score will be a lot closer than the BYU score.  In fact, I would not be surprised if Texas wins the game outright.

Speaking of UCLA, I'm glad to see pollsters moving them down after their 2nd consecutive week of sub-par play against weaker opponents.  There's no way that game against Memphis at HOME should be that close.  If they don't get their act together, Oregon is going to embarrass them on the Rose Bowl field when they meet next month.  They were so overrated before the season began.  Everyone was picking them to win the Pac-12 and be 1 of the 4 teams in the playoff.  One media member, Tim Brando, even picked them to win the national championship.  Really?!?  Why so much love? 

Week 2 Recap - Big 10 a Power Conference?

This week was set up perfectly for the Big 10 to show the conference is relevant and belong in the talk for the playoffs at the end of the year.  They had 3 big game matchups:  Ohio St vs Virginia Tech, Michigan @ Notre Dame, and the big one Michigan St @ Oregon.  Unfortunately for the Big 10, they went 0-3 and some were ugly losses.  Michigan failed to score a single point in their loss to Notre Dame 31-0.  Ohio St lost at HOME to an unranked Virginia Tech 35-21.  Granted the last TD for the Hokies came on a pick 6, but it was a horrible pass and shouldn't have been thrown.  Michigan St played Oregon very close in the 1st half.  In fact, they had a 24-18 halftime lead.  However, Oregon broke out in the 2nd half and put the game away outscoring the Spartans 28-3 giving Oregon a 46-27 victory.

2014 Week 2 Rankings

Here are my rankings for week 2.  As mentioned before, my polls are very fluid from week to week because it's points based and if you don't play (Georgia), you don't get any points and you will move down the polls for that week.  Everyone has at least one bye (Cincinnati has had 2 bye weeks to start the season....weird) so it evens out.  After about 4-5 weeks, my polls start resembling the AP & Coaches poll (for the Preseason Poll).

The Equal Poll on the other hand is completely different and is solely based on performance on the field with no AP Preseason Poll being used for starting points.  For this reason, BYU is ranked #1 this week.  They have played both of their games on the road and won both by more than 20 points.  Therefore, they get the maximum points for the win and margin of victory.  Plus both Texas & BYU were ranked in the top 10 last week in the Equal Poll so they get bonus points for both top 25 & top 10.

Preseason						Equal
Ranking	Team	Record	Points	Prev		Ranking	Team	Record	Points	Prev
1	Oregon	2 - 0	176	4		1	BYU	2 - 0	64	2
2	Oklahoma	2 - 0	171	1		2	Notre Dame	2 - 0	56	8
3	Auburn	2 - 0	165	2		3	Mississippi St.	2 - 0	49	8
4	Alabama	2 - 0	161	5		4	Ole Miss	2 - 0	46	6
5	Ole Miss	2 - 0	157	13		4	Oklahoma	2 - 0	46	8
6	Baylor	2 - 0	156	5		6	Texas A&M	2 - 0	45	1
7	Notre Dame	2 - 0	154	15		7	Arizona	2 - 0	44	8
8	Florida St.	2 - 0	153	8		8	Auburn	2 - 0	43	8
8	Texas A&M	2 - 0	153	8		9	Missouri	2 - 0	42	25
10	Arizona St.	2 - 0	151	17		10	Arizona St.	2 - 0	41	25
11	USC	2 - 0	146	11		11	Tennessee	2 - 0	38	8
11	Missouri	2 - 0	146	22		11	Duke	2 - 0	38	25
13	UCLA	2 - 0	143	11		13	Baylor	2 - 0	37	8
14	LSU	2 - 0	142	17		13	Oregon	2 - 0	37	25
15	Duke	2 - 0	138	24		13	Utah	2 - 0	37	25
16	BYU	2 - 0	137	30		13	Georgia Tech	2 - 0	37	53
17	Georgia	1 - 0	135	5		17	Marshall	2 - 0	36	21
17	Virginia Tech	2 - 0	135	28		17	Pittsburgh	2 - 0	36	25
19	Kansas St.	2 - 0	134	19		17	Virginia Tech	2 - 0	36	25
20	Marshall	2 - 0	133	23		20	Louisville	2 - 0	35	23
21	Michigan St.	1 - 1	132	8		21	Kentucky	2 - 0	34	25
22	Nebraska	2 - 0	131	16		21	Alabama	2 - 0	34	56
23	Stanford	1 - 1	129	13		23	UTSA	1 - 1	31	2
23	Miami (FL)	2 - 0	129	26		24	USC	2 - 0	30	8
25	Mississippi St.	2 - 0	128	25		25	Minnesota	2 - 0	29	25
						25	Northern Ill.	2 - 0	29	25