CJ Brown – RIVALS RUNDOWN

Here is our Top 25 Ranking for Week 5 of the College Football Season. Week four was a lackluster week of games in college football, which would leave one to believe we’d have little movement in our Top 25 Rankings… it’s kinda true. So our top teams went unchanged but after watching some of the performances by our next 15 we had to do a little housecleaning to make sure that everyone is where they belong. We saw Michigan continue to drop after what was a dominating performance against Notre Dame two weeks ago, while they have won both games since, neither wins have impressed us enough for them to maintain and if it wasn’t for the Notre Dame game, they would be with Maryland and Texas Tech as questionable unbeatens. Speaking of Maryland, if you have followed our blog or rankings, you’ll know that we called this and that we have started the unofficial campaign for CJ Brown’s Heisman candidacy. Other notables, was our Sun Devils getting thumped by what looked like an NFL team in Stanford. The silver lining was that the Devils fought till the end and came within a 4th down of having a chance to pull within 11 points with 4 minutes still left. Either way, they drop out of the top 25, again because of the performance. A top 25 team should be competitive within the rankings, sans Alabama and Oregon (maybe Stanford, we’ll see). Side note, keep you eye on UCF, the Knights might still be one of the better teams that no one is talking about. Also Washington and Baylor could both be considered outside contenders in their respective conferences to win! While we’re sharing random thoughts, how about Utah, they beat their instate Rivals Utah St and BYU to Own the State but a slip vs Oregon St who lost to Eastern Washington, keeps them off of the National Radar and ours. We’ll Utah, let’s see what you can do against the Pac12 South! Big game this week that we are personally stoked about and might get some play, Maryland and Florida State. Check back this week as we will have our Rivals Rundown Rewind and games to look forward to this weekend. Enjoy your NFL Sunday Funday! Update: We missed Texas Tech as the 25th ranked team when we originally published, so we had a couple of moves made to 25-30 and out…

RIVALS RUNDOWN TOP 25 WEEK 5


Current Rank	Previous Week	Team
1	1	Alabama Crimson Tide,	3-0
2	2	Oregon Ducks,	3-0
3	3	Clemson Tigers	3-0
4	4	Ohio State Buckeyes	4-0
5	5	Louisville Cardinals	4-0
6	6	Florida State Seminoles	3-0
7	7	Oklahoma State Cowboys	3-0
8	8	LSU Tigers	4-0
9	9	Georgia Bulldogs	2-1
10	13	Texas A&M Aggies	3-1
11	11	Stanford Cardinal	3-0
12	15	Baylor Bears	3-0
13	13	UCLA Bruins	3-0
14	14	Miami Hurricanes	3-0
15	17	Oklahoma Sooners	3-0
16	16	Washington Huskies	3-0
17	21	Ole Miss Rebels	3-0
18	18	Fresno State Bulldogs	3-0
19	19	Florida Gators	2-1
20	20	South Carolina	2-1
21	25	Northwestern	4-0
22	24	Wisconsin Badgers	3-1
23	12	Michigan Wolverines	4-0
24	Unranked	Notre Dame	3-1
25	30	Texas Tech Red Raiders	4-0
Next 5-
26	28	Boise State Broncos	2-2
27	Unranked	UCF Knights	3-0
28	26	Michigan State Spartans	3-1
29	Unranked	Maryland Terrapins	4-0
30	27	Nebraska Cornhuskers	3-1

Out-
	23	Arizona State Sun Devils	2-1
	29	Northern Ill Huskies	3-0

(stats via espn.com; photo sbnation.com)

Rivals Rundown Standout Player

We wanted to find a player this week that has really performed above and beyond anyones expectations in their first two games of the 2013 season. While there were plenty of candidates there was only one that caught our eye and to be honest the reason this player is going to be our very first Rivals Rundown Standout Player of the Season, is because we completely overlooked them in our preseason. In fact we overlooked their team too, one that we like, albeit extremely early, to make some waves in their last year in the ACC. Our first player is: C.J. Brown, Senior QB of the Maryland Terrapins.

C.J. came on our radar last week as we randomly checked ESPN’s QBR for College QB’s after the first week of the season. We were surprised to see C.J. as the number one QB and then we saw his stat line for last weeks game:

Passing- 20 of 23 for 281 yards and 3 TD’s, no INT’s
Rushing- 11 for 105 yards and 2 TD’s QBR= 98.1

Now we understand that this was against Florida International but for whatever reason C.J. got no play nationally for what is impressive no matter who they were playing. So after last week C.J. was on our radar, which brings us to his second performance of 2013 against Old Dominion. Now, Old Dominion is in a transition year making the move to FBS and they by now means have the talent level as Maryland but let’s check our C.J.’s stat line:

Passing- 14 of 22 for 275 yards and 2 TD’s, no INT’s
Rushing- 4 for 30 yards and 2 TD’s
QBR= 95.3

Week two was a minor step back but C.J. still had a solid passer rating and accounted for 4 TD’s, 9 for the season. So let’s look at C.J. a little closer and check out what we might expect in the coming weeks from this Rivals Rundown Standout Player.

Brown came to Maryland in 2009 as a three star prospect (Rivals.com) from Seneca Valley Senior High School in Cranberry Township, PA. After a redshirt season in 2009, he played four play against Morgan State in 2010 before a broken collarbone ended his season. In 2011 he had a breakout game against Clemson where he set Maryland’s single game rushing record by a QB recording 162 yards, a record which had stood since 1950. So how did we miss this guy, well in 2012 he missed the entire season with an ACL injury and that brings us to 2013. With a match-ups against UConn and West Virginia on deck for the Terps we’ll be watching to see what Brown can do. If Brown and the Terps can win those two, setting the stage for a game at Florida State, look for the National Media to start talking about C.J. Brown vs. the Freshman Winston down in Tallahassee. We’ll be cheering for that to happen and see if C.J. Brown can steal the show.

(Stats from ESPN.com and Wikipedia)

(Photo via CSNBaltimore.com)

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Standout Player: C.J. Brown