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.
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)
Week 2 of the College Football Season is now in the books and with it a couple of our 25 teams, well for now. It’s hard to imagine that one loss could end your season or at least your ranking in our Top 25 but in the cases of USC, Texas, and Cincinnati, that’s exactly what we think happened. The worst of the three by far is USC, there is no way a team with that much talent should have such a bad offense, they could pathetic not being able to move the ball against what will prove to be a week Washington State team. Anyways, here we go with our Week 3 Top 25 teams of College Football. Come back later in the week when we will do our rewind and see how this Top 25 came together.
| Current Rank | Previous Week | Team |
| 1 | 1 | Alabama Crimson Tide |
| 2 | 2 | Oregon Ducks |
| 3 | 3 | Clemson Tigers |
| 4 | 4 | Ohio State Buckeyes |
| 5 | 5 | Louisville Cardinals |
| 6 | 6 | Florida State Seminoles |
| 7 | 7 | Oklahoma State Cowboys |
| 8 | 9 | LSU Tigers |
| 9 | 12 | Georgia Bulldogs |
| 10 | 11 | Nebraska Cornhuskers |
| 11 | 13 | Stanford Cardinal |
| 12 | 20 | Michigan Wolverines |
| 13 | 18 | Texas A&M Aggies |
| 14 | 29 | Miami Hurricanes |
| 15 | 16 | Baylor Bears |
| 16 | 17 | Washington Huskies |
| 17 | 26 | UCLA Bruins |
| 18 | 15 | Oklahoma Sooners |
| 19 | 19 | Fresno State Bulldogs |
| 20 | 14 | Florida Gators |
| 21 | 8 | South Carolina |
| 22 | 22 | TCU Horned Frogs |
| 23 | 23 | Arizona State Sun Devils |
| 24 | 30 | Wisconsin Badgers |
| 25 | 21 | Northwestern |
| NEXT 5- | ||
| 26 | 27 | Northern Ill Huskies |
| 27 | Unranked | Ole Miss Rebels |
| 28 | Unranked | Michigan State Spartans |
| 29 | Unranked | BYU Cougars |
| 30 | Unranked | Boise State Broncos |
Welcome to our inaugural Rivals Rundown Preseason Top 30 Teams!!! We are excited to present this the morning of the 2013 College Football Season. We have published our Top 5 teams for all of the BCS Conferences and this is the culmination of all that research. This is not our prediction of how the season will end, this is where we rank the teams as of today. Throughout the season we will visit our Top 30 and adjust as we see fit. Sometimes the whole thing might get flipped upside down but that’s College Football. Here is our Rivals Rundown 2013 College Football Preseason Top 30!!!
1. Alabama Crimson Tide
2. Oregon Ducks
3. Ohio State Buckeyes
4. Georgia Bulldogs
5. Clemson Tigers
6. Louisville Cardinals
7. Texas Longhorns
8. Nebraska Cornhuskers
9. Florida State Seminoles
10. Oklahoma State Cowboys
11. South Carolina Gamecocks
12. LSU Tigers
13. USC Trojans
14. Stanford Cardinal
15. Florida Gators
16. Texas A&M Aggies
17. Oregon State Beavers
18. TCU Horned Frogs
19. Boise State Broncos
20. Oklahoma Sooners
21. Michigan Wolverines
22. Northwestern Wildcats
23. Arizona State Sun Devils
24. Fresno State Bulldogs
25. Notre Dame Fighting Irish
26. Baylor Bears
27. Washington Huskies
28. Northern Illinois Huskies
29 Miami Hurricanes
30. Ohio Bobcats
AP Top 25 Released with No Surprises
August 17, 2013
Today the AP Top 25 College Football poll was released with no surprises and very little to spark up new conversation.
1. Alabama
2012 Record: 13-1
Coaches Poll: 1
First Game: vs. Virginia Tech
2. Ohio State
2012 Record: 12-0
Coaches Poll: 2
First Game: Buffalo
3. Oregon
2012 Record: 12-1
Coaches Poll: 3
First Game: Nicholls State
4. Stanford
2012 Record: 12-2
Coaches Poll: 4
First Game: San Jose State
5. Georgia
2012 Record: 12-2
Coaches Poll: 5
First Game: at Clemson
6. South Carolina
2012 Record: 11-2
Coaches Poll: 7
First Game: North Carolina
7. Texas A&M
2012 Record: 11-2
Coaches Poll: 6
First Game: Rice
8. Clemson
2012 Record: 11-2
Coaches Poll: 8
First Game: Georgia
9. Louisville
2012 Record: 11-2
Coaches Poll: 9
First Game: Ohio
10. Florida
2012 Record: 11-2
Coaches Poll: 10
First Game: Toledo
11. Florida State
2012 Record: 12-2
Coaches Poll: 12
First Game: at Pittsburgh
12. LSU
2012 Record: 10-3
Coaches Poll: 13
First Game: vs. TCU
13. Oklahoma State
2012 Record: 8-5
Coaches Poll: 14
First Game: vs. Mississippi State
14. Notre Dame
2012 Record: 12-1
Coaches Poll: 11
First Game: Temple
15. Texas
2012 Record: 9-4
Coaches Poll: 15
First Game: New Mexico State
16. Oklahoma
2012 Record: 10-3
Coaches Poll: 16
First Game: Louisiana-Monroe
17. Michigan
2012 Record: 8-5
Coaches Poll: 17
First Game: Central Michigan
18. Nebraska
2012 Record: 10-4
Coaches Poll: 18
First Game: Wyoming
19. Boise State
2012 Record: 11-2
Coaches Poll: 19
First Game: at Washington
20. TCU
2012 Record: 7-6
Coaches Poll: 20
First Game: vs. LSU
21. UCLA
2012 Record: 9-5
Coaches Poll: 21
First Game: Nevada
22. Northwestern
2012 Record: 10-3
Coaches Poll: 22
First Game: at Cal
23. Wisconsin
2012 Record: 8-6
Coaches Poll: 23
First Game: UMass
24. USC
2012 Record: 7-6
Coaches Poll: 24
First Game: at Hawaii
25. Oregon State
2012 Record: 9-4
Coaches Poll: 25
First Game: Eastern Washington
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