<p>If Oregon takes care of business this week, they’ll still be #1 when they play USC. I’m excited, I already have my ticket. It’s been a very long time since a #1 team played at USC.</p>
<p>What’s wrong with the gators is that it’s incredibly hard to stay on top for long. Attrition of players to graduation, the NFL, coaches to other schools, the whole system is set up to make it hard. Sometimes 5 star recruits just don’t pan out.</p>
<p>It’s not that bad either, the Gators are in contention for a decent bowl if they finish strong.</p>
<p>Quarterback doesn’t fit the system, lost a lot of talent to the draft/graduation.</p>
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<p>There’s still the Big XII title game. They have a tough game at Mizzou this week and a tough game at Oklahoma State at the end of November. OU isn’t likely to go undefeated. </p>
<p>Cam Newton will win the Heisman if Auburn stays in NC contention. Haha and to think that he was waiting in the wings as Tebow’s successor at UF. I bet Urban Meyer is kicking himself that Newton left UF.</p>
<p>Can’t believe I never saw this thread before now. I LOVE college football and have been an Alabama fan all my life (third gen. UA grad here and my dad was a professor there, so I grew up in T-Town)</p>
<p>It was good that Alabama got back on the “winning” track against Ole Miss, but they did NOT look good doing it. I am very, very concerned about LSU and, in particular, about Auburn. Very interesting season!!</p>
<p>One thing I will say (since I live in the Atlanta area and am well aware of all the UGA players’ problems in this area) is that none of Nick Saban’s boys ended up in jail after their potentially devastating loss last weekend. He is doing a great job of coaching and teaching values and character, according to what I have read. Hopefully they learned a lot and on many levels from that loss…</p>
<p>I was kind of disappointed that all the rankings have Oklahoma and Oregon ahead of Boise St. Oregon did nothing during their bye week and got #1. Oklahoma destroyed Iowa st is nice but Utah did the same thing at Iowa St too. Oklahoma doesn’t have any impressive win so far while Boise St blanks every opponents they face every week.</p>
<p>It’s still early to say but if they pair up Boise St and TCU in another meaningless bowl, I’ll never watch college football again</p>
<p>Yeah super happy that Wisconsin kicked butt against OSU! But I highly doubt the Spartans will be losing anytime soon… Iowa vs. Wisconsin next week should be a good one though.</p>
<p>Rutgers would blank every opponent in the WAC. They’re basically intramural teams. There are even FCS teams that are ranked higher in SOS than some WAC teams.</p>
<p>Are you implying that Saban is a “better” coach than Richt becaues his players are caught less often by police? The fact that LSU or UF or [insert school here] football players are not arrested as often as UGA players does NOT mean that Saban is a better coach than Richt; if anything, it means that Gainesville and Baton Rouge police are more willing to issue citations or overlook crimes as opposed to arresting people.</p>
<p>People who put up pointless statistics like this and claim that, “Team A beat team B by only 20 but team C beat team B by 60! OMGzzz team C would destroy team A!!!” are complete idiots and not real football fans. </p>
<p>Wisconsin’s smash mouth offense would destroy the Broncos by the way regardless of all the trick plays in the book.</p>
<p>Given all the crap that’s gone on this season between arrests and BS NCAA suspensions, I think I have good reason to be defensive. :)</p>
<p>On a brighter note, might Georgia win out in conference games and make it to that game in Atlanta? Looks like it’s possible, given the performance of UF and USC.</p>
<p>Comparing scores is really hard, it’s even hard to compare wins.</p>
<p>Example. UCLA beat Texas, who beat Nebraska, who beat Washington, who beat USC, who beat Cal, who beat UCLA.</p>
<p>Most of those were dominant wins (except Washington over USC) and you can’t really tell out of all of the 6 teams which is the best just from those games alone.</p>
<p>I think Boise State is fairly ranked at #2 in the human polls and #3 in the BCS. I’m mostly convinced that they’re better than Wisconsin. But blowing out teams like San Jose State shouldn’t make you #1, USC beat San Jose State 56-3 last year and ended up 9-4 overall.</p>
<p>I think it’s fair to look at a team’s schedule and make an assumption based on the consistency of their performances. Boise St has been blowing out all their opponents. They’ll go perfect for sure unless their QB gets injured. Oregon has been beating their opponents by 10+ points. those 2 are pretty obvious.</p>
<p>Hang on, I didn’t make those claims. I was saying that the implication that any mediocre BCS team could crush a WAC team was clearly wrong. I brought up OSU because that’s where the specific poster was from. Now obviously Wisconsin has had its share of troubles with WAC <a href=“%5B/color%5D%5Bcolor=#00ffc6%5Da%5B/color%5D%5Bcolor=#00ffc8%5Dn%5B/color%5D%5Bcolor=#00ffcb%5Dd%20%5B/color%5D%5Bcolor=#00ffce%5D%20%5B/color%5D%5Bcolor=#00ffd0%5DC%5B/color%5D%5Bcolor=#00ffd3%5Da%5B/color%5D%5Bcolor=#00ffd5%5Dl%20%5B/color%5D%5Bcolor=#00ffd8%5D%20%5B/color%5D%5Bcolor=#00ffda%5DP%5B/color%5D%5Bcolor=#00ffdd%5Do%5B/color%5D%5Bcolor=#00ffe0%5Dl%5B/color%5D%5Bcolor=#00ffe2%5Dy%5B/color%5D%5Bcolor=#00ffe5%5D”>color=#00ffc3</a> [/color] teams in recent years.
But the whole point is that it would be idiotic to say something completely unsupportable, like “Wisconsin’s smash mouth offense would destroy the Broncos.”
<p>I wouldn’t say that Boise State has been blowing out all their opponents or that Oregon hasn’t blown out people</p>
<p>Against the only two decent opponents they’ve faced so far Boise State has won by 3 and 13 points. Boise State beat Toledo 57-14, but so did Arizona (41-2). Oregon beat Tennessee by 35 (Tennessee later nearly beat LSU but blew the final play of the game and lost by 1) and also beat #12 Stanford by 21.</p>
<p>I don’t mean to say that Boise State shouldn’t be given credit for consistently demolishing teams it should demolish, but in the past way too many teams from BCS conferences have been overhyped in the early season because of big wins vs lower tier teams and then exposed when they hit the tougher conference schedule. </p>
<p>I don’t think so. Wisc is one dimensional. One dimensional team doesn’t go very far into the season. But we won’t know the result unless they play each other. I think that given sufficient time to prepare, Boise St will beat ANY TEAM in college football and it’s proven. Last year they beat Oregon and TCU as an underdog. This year they beat Virginia tech away from home and Oregon St at home. They are consistent in that they blow out every opponent they’re supposed to beat.</p>
<p>The question shouldn’t be who have they beat? it should be who haven’t Boise st beat?
How can you go undefeated for 2/3 consecutive seasons and still ranked behind 2-loss Ohio State in preseason? It seems like they always make sure at least 2 teams are ahead of Boise St and TCU every week.</p>
<p>I would agree they are a mainly running team, but they are much less one-dimensional since say the Ron Dayne era. Sure they ought to run the ball 2/3 of the time because that’s where their offensive strength lies with the O-line, however their throwing offense isn’t bad either. We have one of the best TEs in the country and Tolzein can be pretty good when he has time in the pocket.</p>
<p>Obviously I have nothing to prove my opinion, but just based on the way Boise and Wisconsin play I think the Badgers would pull off a win.
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<p>Despite the fact people love the underdog Boise will never get respect because of it’s schedule and that will never change unless they get into a BCS conference which is unlikely in the forseeable future. Based on pure talent perhaps a team like OSU deserves to be ranked ahead of them, but we all know college football isn’t all about pure talent. Look at the Florida gators for instance. They had what, 15 of the top 150 recruits this year and they are in the dumps. It’s about coaching and chemistry which Boise has excelled in recently, but that’s not going to get you into the Championship when people doubt you based on schedule despite the blowout wins.</p>
<p>My current top 10 is mostly based off of the eye test (how impressive a team looks) and the rest is based off of who each team has played and who they have beaten. I could care less what a team was ranked to start the season. Here goes:</p>
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<li>Oregon (#1 by a large margin)</li>
<li>Auburn</li>
<li>Boise State
4.Stanford</li>
<li>TCU</li>
<li>Oklahoma (close wins vs Utah St, Cincy, AF. 1 good win vs FSU).</li>
<li>Iowa</li>
<li>Alabama</li>
<li>Mizzou</li>
<li>Arkansas (Wisconsin is a close #11).</li>
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<p>jbusc- I think that you were crazy to have Florida State in the top 10. Did you see them play Oklahoma?</p>
<p>The transitive property doesn’t apply to college football.</p>
<p>Rule #1 about college football: Perception is reality. Example: 3 weeks ago Alabama was “by far the best team in the country” and they were going to cruise to the NC game. Use the eye test. They didn’t look that good vs their only good opponent at that point, Arkansas (Ryan Mallet gave the game away), and didn’t deserve to win. I used the eye test and Oregon looked like the best team in the country to me. Most people thought that they wouldn’t stand a chance vs Bama or tOSU. A few weeks later Bama loses, Oregon is legitimized as the best team in the land and now all of a sudden can beat those SEC teams and Ohio State. Funny how things work in college football.</p>
<p>Oh and we need to get rid of official preseason polls. Bama and tOSU can lose early in the year to above avg teams and make it back up to #1 because they started in the top 2 and only dropped 7 or 8 spots. Meanwhile, Stanford starts unranked, moves up into the top 10, loses to a very good Oregon team and falls to around #20. It’s now basically impossible for Stanford to make it to the top 2 or 3 because of being unranked in the preseason. And yes Stanford is that good that they should be in the top 10.</p>
