Blue Through and Through's Top 25 College Football Teams

When you see polls with wild week-to-week swings, it generally means the voters are reacting to the latest results rather than thinking through the process.  If they have the rankings right, the teams in fact shouldn't move much, as you will note week to week later in the year as the season progresses.

Remember as you follow the poll that since both the Pac-12 and Big 12 had a request from Boise State to join their respective leagues and they did not invite the Broncos, the "strength-of-schedule" argument does not work against Boise State for those two conferences, and thus their teams will always be ranked behind Boise State with the same number of losses.  As it should be.  

Two specific things you will note about these rankings.  First, this is the only college football ranking to have Oregon State ranked last week.  Second, it is still the only ranking to have Notre Dame #1.



1-1.    Notre Dame (4-0, defeated Michigan 13-6; biggest win over Michigan State)

2-2.    Alabama (4-0, defeated Florida Atlantic 40-7; biggest win over Michigan)

3-3.    Stanford (3-0, idle this week; biggest win over USC)

5-4.    Oregon (4-0, whipped Arizona 49-0; biggest win over Arizona)

4-5.    Texas (3-0, did not play; biggest win over Mississippi)

6-6.    LSU (4-0, edged Auburn 12-10; biggest win over Auburn)

8-7.    Georgia (4-0, beat Vanderbilt 48-3; biggest win over Missouri)

9-8.  South Carolina (4-0, defeated Missouri 31-10; biggest win over Missouri)

10-9.  Michigan State (3-1, beat Eastern Michigan 23-7; biggest win over Boise State)

12-10.  Florida State (4-0, beat Clemson 49-37, biggest win over Clemson)

11-11.  West Virginia (3-0, defeated Maryland of the ACC 31-21; biggest win over Maryland)

13-12.  Florida (4-0, shut out Kentucky 38-0; biggest win over Tennessee)

19-13.  Kansas State (4-0, came from behind to beat Oklahoma 24-19; biggest win over Oklahoma)

14-14.  TCU (3-0, beat Virginia 27-7; biggest win over Virginia)

17-15.  Boise State (2-1, beat BYU 7-6; biggest win over BYU, lost to Michigan State)

18-16.  USC (3-1, beat Cal 27-9; biggest win over Cal, lost to Stanford)

7-17.    Oklahoma (2-1, lost to Kansas State 24-19; biggest win over UTEP, lost to Kansas State)

16-18.  Louisville (4-0, beat Florida International 28-21; biggest win over North Carolina)

15-19.  Clemson (3-1, lost to Florida State 49-37; biggest win over Auburn, lost to Florida State)

22-20.  Oregon State (2-0, beat UCLA 27-20; biggest win over Wisconsin)

20-21.  Rutgers (4-0, beat Arkansas 35-26; biggest win over South Florida)

23-22.  UCLA (3-1, lost to Oregon State 27-20; biggest win over Nebraska, lost to Oregon State)

21-23.  Michigan (2-2, lost to #1 Notre Dame 13-6; biggest win over Air Force, losses to Alabama and Notre Dame)

24-24.  Nebraska (3-1, pounded Idaho State 73-7; biggest win over Southern Mississippi, lost to UCLA)

-----25. Mississippi State (3-0, beat South Alabama 30-10; biggest win over Auburn)



Also Considered: , Arizona (3-1, lost to Oregon 49-0; biggest win over Oklahoma State, lost to Oregon) 

Iowa State (3-0, biggest win over Iowa)

Virginia Tech (3-1, beat Bowling Green 37-0, biggest win over Georgia Tech, lost to Pittsburgh)

Tennessee (3-1, beat Akron 47-26; biggest win over North Carolina State, lost to Florida)

Oklahoma State (2-1, biggest win over Louisiana-Lafayette, lost to Arizona)

Dropped:  Fresno State