Boise State #10 in Blue Through and Through College Football Top 25 Rankings

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.  For now, you will still get those wild swings as everything sorts out.

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.  You can't deny a team a place in your conference and then complain about their strength of schedule.  

A team that beats another head-to-head on the field will always be ranked ahead of that team if they have the same record.  As it should be.  If the winner of that game has more losses, further evaluation regarding the closeness and location of the game needs to take place, as well as week-to-week evaluation of all season results.




1-1-1-1.    Notre Dame (6-0, edged #16 Stanford 20-13 in overtime; biggest wins over #16 Stanford and #23 Michigan, Michigan State)

4-4-2-2.    Oregon (6-0, did not play; biggest wins over #24 Washington, Arizona and Fresno State)

2-2-3-3.    Alabama (5-0, whipped Missouri 42-10; biggest win over #23 Michigan)

12-10-4-4.  Florida (6-0, took care of Vanderbilt 31-17; biggest wins over #6 LSU, Tennessee and Texas A&M)


13-11-7-5.  Kansas State (6-0, topped Iowa State 27-21; biggest wins over #11 Oklahoma and Iowa State)

6-5-8-6.    LSU (6-1, turned back #7 South Carolina 23-21; biggest wins over #7 South Carolina and #24 Washington, lost to #4 Florida)

8-7-5-7.    South Carolina (6-1, lost to #6 LSU 23-21; biggest wins over #9 Georgia, loss to #6 LSU)

20-17-15-8.  Oregon State (5-0, throttled BYU 42-24; biggest wins over #25 UCLA, BYU, Wisconsin and Arizona)

7-6-10-9.    Georgia (5-1, did not play; biggest wins over Tennessee and Missouri, lost to #7 South Carolina)

15-13-11-10.  Boise State (5-1, got by Fresno State 20-10 biggest wins over BYU and Fresno State, loss to Michigan State)

17-19-16-11.    Oklahoma (4-1, pounded #14 Texas 43-21; biggest wins over #12 Texas Tech and #14 Texas, loss to #5 Kansas State)


-------------12.  Texas Tech (5-1, rocked #13 West Virginia 49-14; biggest wins over #13 West Virginia and Iowa State, lost to #11 Oklahoma)

11-8-6-9-13.   West Virginia (5-1, lost to #12 Texas Tech 49-14; biggest wins over #14 Texas and Baylor, lost to #12 Texas Tech)

5-3-9-14    Texas (4-2, lost to #11 Oklahoma 63-21; biggest win over Oklahoma State, lost to #11 Oklahoma and #13 West Virginia)


16-18-17-15.  USC (5-1, topped #24 Washington 24-14; biggest win over #24 Washington, loss to #16 Stanford)

3--16-13-16.   Stanford (4-2, lost in overtime to #1 Notre Dame, 20-13; biggest win over #15 USC, losses to #1 Notre Dame and #24 Washington)

14-12-18-17.  TCU (5-1, took care of Baylor 49-21; biggest win over Baylor, lost to Iowa State)

10-9-14-18   Florida State (5-1, creamed Boston College 51-7, biggest win over #20 Clemson, loss to North Carolina State)

18-20-19-19.  Louisville (6-0, beat Pittsburgh 45-31; biggest win over North Carolina)

15-23-20-20.  Clemson (5-1,idle; biggest win over Auburn, loss to #18 Florida State)

20-24-21-21.  Rutgers (6-0, defeated Syracuse 23-15; biggest win over South Florida)

------------22.  Mississippi State (6-0, beat Tennessee 41-31; biggest win over Tennessee)

21-25-23-23.  Michigan (4-2, blanked Illinois 45-0; biggest win over Air Force, losses to #1 Notre Dame and #3 Alabama)

----15-22-24.  Washington (3-3, lost to #15 USC 21-14; biggest win over #14 Stanford, losses to #2 Oregon, #6 LSU and #15 USC)

23-21-25-25.  UCLA (5-2, got by Utah 21-14; biggest win over Nebraska, lost to #8 Oregon State and California)



Dropped Out:  Tennessee, Michigan State


Also Considered:  Ohio (7-0), Texas A&M (5-1), Nebraska (4-2),  Cincinnati (5-0), North Carolina State (4-2)