As we approach the first official announcement of the College Football Playoff, here is our Four. I would like to point out, that we’re going to do this based on how we see the season shaking out and how the teams are currently ranked, not just one or the other. Anyways our Four: FSU, Miss St, Oregon, TCU.
Week 8 of the College Football season gave us some interesting match-ups with some interesting results and some interesting penalties. Here is what we think the College Football Playoff Top 25 should look like, Week 9 style:
1. Florida State
2. Mississippi State
3. Ole Miss
4. Oregon
5. Notre Dame
6. TCU
7. Alabama
8. Michigan State
9. Auburn
10. Ohio State
11. Kansas State
12. Georgia
13. Baylor
14. Arizona State
15. Nebraska
16. Oklahoma
17. Arizona
18. USC
19. East Carolina
20. Marshall
21. Minnesota
22. Utah
23. West Virginia
24. Duke
25. Clemson
Others: LSU, UCLA, Colorado State
After a week of complete upheaval in College Football, we return to normalcy or something like it. We can’t call it normal in College Football when the State of Mississippi is running the house. As always, we don’t look at the rankings from the week below, this is based on where the teams are now, meaning, who cares if a team like University of Arizona was ranked 10th and loses. We’re not ranking them 17th just because. So here is are Week 8 rankings:
1. Mississippi State
2. Florida State
3. Ole Miss
4. Baylor
5. Oregon
6. Notre Dame
7. TCU
8. Auburn
9. Oklahoma
10. Alabama
11. Georgia
12. Michigan State
13. Ohio State
14. Nebraska
15. Oklahoma State
16. Kansas State
17. Stanford
18. Arizona State
19. Arizona
20. East Carolina
21. Marshall
22. USC
23. Kentucky
24. Utah
25. Washington
Just outside: Virginia, Minnesota, LSU, Texas A&M, Iowa, Rutgers, Oregon State,
It’s a weekend that will live in College Football infamy forever. The weekend that 5 of the top 8 teams in the country fell in defeat. Let that really sink in for a minute… Now here is the questions, is that because of an absurd amount of upsets or did all the pundits get it wrong? I’m going to say, both! I know, that was a stretch but here’s why:
First, we have tons and tons of games as compared to the NFL, this leads to too many unknowns for even the most avid fan. Everyone is guessing on how good a team is based on what information they have been presented. The problem, we try to take the previous year, the program’s history, the coach’s history, the history of the two teams playing, etc. etc… This puts us in a position where College Football is all guessing until we see each team play each other, which doesn’t happen all the time, so then we’re back to where we started which is, the Eye Test.
Our First Top 25 Ranking for College Football of 2014 will be based on the Eye Test, we’re going forward based on what we can tell from what we’ve watched and what we think. Here is our “Eye Test” Top 25 or the Rundown:
1. Florida State
2. Mississippi State
3. Auburn
4. Baylor
5. Ole Miss
6. Notre Dame
7. TCU
8. Alabama
9. Oklahoma
10. Michigan St
11. Arizona
12. Oregon
13. Texas A&M
14. Georgia
15. Ohio St.
16. Oklahoma St.
17. Kansas St.
18. Georgia Tech
19. Arizona St.
20. Stanford
21. Virginia
22. East Carolina
23. Nebraska
24. Utah
25. USC
Just Outside: Marshall, BYU, Washington, Louisville, Wisconsin, Oregon St., Rutgers, West Virginia,
RIVALS RUNDOWN 