Missouri TIgers – RIVALS RUNDOWN

After taking a week off and enjoying some music at Austin City Limits, we here at the Rundown have pieced ourselves back together and are ready to get back to some College Football! The Top 6 teams have stayed almost untouched for the first six weeks of the season. Now that both Alabama and Oregon have faced true tests in Texas A&M and Washington and passed, that leaves Louisville as the only untested top 6 team. We will give Louisville some props for avoiding the trap game against Rutgers and while Rutgers is a good team, they are nowhere near A&M or Washington. Other notes… We are still of the opinion that LSU has the best shot of making it to a National Championship game other then Oregon or Alabama at this time, even though we have them ranked at 7. With the showdown between Florida State and Clemson looming, the loser will fall somewhere between LSU and Miami, thus giving everyone a dilemma, does the winner deserve to be 1,2 or 3… That is going to be a huge choice, I think at this time it depends on who the winner is and how they looked. But, it will be tough! It’s too bad Stanford choked on Utah, it hurts the overall street cred of the Pac12 and Washington. Until that we would say that the Winner of Stanford vs Oregon would peg their ticket if they were undefeated and so was Clemson or Florida State but now the Ducks are going to have to be really impressive, not to mention games left against Stanford and Oregon State. (Oregon State is a whole different blog). Even as we sit back and look at our rankings, UCLA and Baylor might be the most underrated teams and we’re not sold on Texas Tech and Auburn but the deserve the rankings for now. Ok, no more rambling, here is our most recent installment of the Rivals Rundown Top 25 Teams, Week 8 Edition!

1	Alabama Crimson Tide
2	Oregon Ducks
3	Clemson Tigers
4	Ohio State Buckeyes
5	Louisville Cardinals
6	Florida State Seminoles
7	LSU Tigers
8	Texas A&M Aggies
9	Baylor Bears
10	UCLA Bruins
11	Miami Hurricans
12	South Carolina Gamecocks
13	Stanford Cardinal
14	Missouri Tigers
15	Virginia Tech Hokies
16	Georgia Bulldogs
17	Washington Huskies
18	Fresno State Bulldogs
19	Texas Tech Red Raiders
20	Northern Ill Huskies
21	Michigan Wolverines
22	Nebraska Huskers
23	Michigan State Spartans
24	Auburn Tigers
25	Oklahoma Sooners

(Stats via Espn.com; Picture via sbnation.com)

Welcome everyone to our week 6 Rivals Rundown Top 25 rankings! As you’ll see below we’ll really rank the Top 30 with those that are on the radar here at the Rundown. Normally, here we write this big rant about what happened the previous weekend in College Football, so… Here is our Rivals Rundown Rant! First Oklahoma State, what happened to our Top 10 team!?! Not to mention one of our preseason favorites in the Big 12! Urgh, the sad part is that game had upset written all over it, coaching buddies, an underperforming West Virginia team that no one was talking about, and an Oklahoma State team that clearly was looking past their early Saturday opponent. The pay the ultimate price, dropping from the Top 10 out of the Top 25!!! They will have to fight their way back, there are too many teams, too many teams playing good football for us to give them respect after that loss. Next, South Carolina and UCF, neither team really moved and UCF had their chances but as we often see in upset games, the team that has been tested already in the season finds a way to close (See Fresno State). Moving to our favorite game of the weekend, Arizona State and USC. Now, this was a good game until Arizona State realized that they could out play USC on both sides of the ball, took the energy from the home crowd and stomped on a team that over the last 10 years had crushed Arizona States dreams over rising to the top of the PAC. We will mention, that USC acted way too early to fire Lane, the program doesn’t want to realize or admit that the NCAA sanctions are affecting them. We welcome back the Sun Devils and the Hokies to the Top 25, why? They both proved that they are Top 25 teams, the Sun Devils for Offense and the Hokies for Defense. The only new team to the Top 25 is the Maryland Terrapins. The Game of the week last weekend was Georgia and LSU, both of which moved a little but we still see each of these teams as outside bet for the National Title. Maryland will get their big test this week to see if they belong or if they are pretenders. Other teams to keep your eye on, Iowa, East Carolina and Northern Illinois, we’re still not sure how the stack up next to the rest of our Top teams. So here is our Rivals Rundown Top 25 for Week 6 of the College Football Season! Enjoy, Share and Comment.


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

Just Outside
	7	Oklahoma State Cowboys	3-1
	Unranked	Iowa Hawkeyes	4-1
	Unranked	East Carolina	3-1
	Unranked	Missouri Tigers	4-0
	26	Michigan State Spartans	3-1
	Unranked	Notre Dame	3-2

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