Real Rank: 4th Week of College Football Rankings
The 4th week has just went by and we continue to see teams from the ACC and SEC dominate the college ranks. These two divisions are just a speed ahead of all the other conferences in the country. The PAC 10 continues to get beat up on and today’s latest victim was Oregon taking a beating from Boise State. The final score looks a lot closer than what that game really was and Boise State was in control the entire time. Arizona State didn’t fare much better against a team that had to travel across the country to play them and the Georgia Bulldogs proved once again they are the best team in the nation right now. It was a tough game for Georgia having to face the Sun Devils, the desert conditions and the PAC 10 Officials that gave Arizona State every call on the field. The PAC 10 officiating is horrible and the Ohio State Buckeye fans can attest to this when they had to play the overrated USC Trojans early in the year. The PAC 10 Officials don’t even try to cover it up and they will help out their teams as much as possible. Georgia wins by 40+ if the game would have been called fairly, but a win is a win and Georgia now has 4 wins on the season. No way does USC stay ranked above them now. You have a team with 4 wins being compared to a team with 2 wins and the 4 win team was the preseason favorite going into the season. So USC will lose spots this week in the polls and things won’t get much better for them; because they have to win every game by 40 points now with the PAC 10 going down hill like it has been.
Black Saturday in the PAC 10? What? Now that has to be about the funniest thing I have heard all year long. The real college football fans and experts know that the PAC 10 is a weak division and most of those teams were only ranked in the top 25 to give the USC team quality wins. It’s a system that is so unfair but it has now backfired against USC and they are now out of the National Title picture (unless they win all games by 40+) and they haven’t even added a mark to the loss column yet.
So now we have to count East Carolina and the Oregon Mighty Ducks out of the top 25 teams in the country and here is a look at the real rankings of college football after 4 weeks of play.
1. Georgia
2. Oklahoma
3. Florida
4. LSU
5. Missouri
6. Alabama
7. Texas
8. Missouri
9. Texas Tech
10. Wisconsin
11. Wake Forrest
12. BYU
13. USC
14. Penn State
15. South Florida
16. Kansas
17. Auburn
18. Clemson
19. Illinois
20. Florida State
21. Vanderbilt
22. Virginia Tech
23. Utah
24. Georgia Tech
25. Miami
That is a look at the real college football rankings in the country right now after we have seen these teams for 4 Saturdays now. I think the back to back shut-outs by BYU is very impressive and they might deserve to be a little higher up in the real rankings right now. Several good teams on the bubble of that 25th spot, but I don’t see how the Miami Hurricanes wouldn’t make a top 25 right now with all the young talent they have.
Week 5 in college football looks like a dandy and we will get to see more good games coming up next Saturday. There is about 8 or 9 teams that you could consider as one of the top 5 teams in the nation right now. The AP Poll and USA Today Poll really doesn’t reflect what’s being done on the football field and it should be interesting to see where a two win team that is currently listed as number 1 in the nation goes to; after teams like Georgia, BYU, Alabama and Missouri all have 4 wins. Rankings are suppose to be based on what we have seen and up-to-date with the way things look right this second. USC can’t be ranked number 1 in the country if you have quality teams playing quality games and winning on the road and these teams have twice as many wins. So this will be judgment week after week 4 and see how brave the voters are to knock USC off of their 2 win paper mountain that they are on. USC does not have quality wins! They did not beat the number 5 team in the nation and that team won by 18 against Troy at home today. A USC road win is impressive against Virginia (normally) but Virginia isn’t Virginia this year and they won 16 to 0 against Richmond, but got pounded by Connecticut 45 to 10. So USC has only 2 wins against 1 highly over ranked team and the other one got blew out by Connecticut. So let’s get those polls right this week and move USC out of the top spot on the rankings.
