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30 Oct 2012
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The Confidential’s College Football Top 25 & Bottom 4: Week 9

Each week, the Confidential will provide its ranking of the top 25 teams in College Football, as well as the Bottom 4 BCS-level teams.  Here is the Week 9 version, with analysis of the top 10 and bottom 4:

  1. Alabama (8-0): Alabama keeps on rolling, with a romp over Mississippi State.   The LSU game should be fun!
  2. Oregon (8-0): The Ducks obliterated Colorado.  But what else is new?
  3. Notre Dame (8-0): The Fighting Irish are for real after defeating Oklahoma on the road.  They cannot look ahead to USC though.
  4. Kansas State (8-0):  The polls are starting to love Kansas State.  As well they should after yet another impressive win.
  5. Ohio State (9-0).  The Buckeyes keep on rolling, with a win over Penn State.
  6. Florida State (8-1):  The Seminoles get a week off after blowing out Duke.
  7. LSU (7-1):  And here come the SEC schools.  LSU took care of Texas A&M to improve to 7-1.
  8. Georgia (7-1): Georgia got a big win over Florida in Jacksonville.
  9. Florida (7-1): The Gators struggled offensively against Georgia, but are still a good team.
  10. Louisville (8-0): The Cardinals struggled against Cincinnati before pulling out the win to remain unbeaten.
  11. Oklahoma (5-2).
  12. Clemson (7-1).
  13. South Carolina (7-2).
  14. Mississippi State (7-1).
  15. Nebraska (6-2).
  16. Boise State (7-1).
  17. Southern California (6-2).
  18. Oregon State (6-1).
  19. Michigan (5-3).
  20. Louisiana Tech (7-1).
  21. Texas Tech (6-2).
  22. Stanford (6-2).
  23. West Virginia (5-2).
  24. Toledo (8-1).
  25. UCLA (6-2).

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121.  Illinois (2-6).  With a loss to Indiana, Illinois is at the bottom of the B1G now.  Do they miss Ron Zook now?

122. Virginia (2-6).  With Boston College’s win over Maryland, Virginia drops to the bottom of the ACC barrel.  Enjoy.

123. Colorado (1-7).  The Buffaloes are just plain bad.  70-6 against Oregon.  Has any program fallen farther than Colorado?

124. Kansas (1-7).  Kansas played very well against Texas.  This isn’t the Texas of old, but kudos to the Wildcats for making a game of it.

So there it is.  If you do not like it… sorry.  But feel free to share your reasons why…

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2 thoughts on “The Confidential’s College Football Top 25 & Bottom 4: Week 9”

  1. Typical Vol's avatarTypical Vol on said:

    Hard to justify 5-3 Michigan in the top 25. Results so far give clear demarcation that they’re below Nebraska (two TD loss) and above Air Force (6 pt win at home). Just because their other two losses are to top 5 teams doesn’t make them a good team. Every team in the SEC, with the possible exception of Kentucky, would beat Michigan handily.

    • acaffrey's avataracaffrey on said:

      I reward the teams that play a tough schedule. Michigan scheduled Alabama to go along with the annual Notre Dame game. Losing those games, as well as losing at Nebraska, is reasonable this year.

      Besides, who belongs ahead of Michigan? Make THAT case for me. Texas Tech played one of the weakest OOC slates ever & just got obliterated by KSU. Stanford’s first three games were great, but since then have lost to Washington and barely beating a truly awful Washington State team at home. WVU has given up 50 points a game in the Big XII. Toledo’s win over Cincy was nice, but not worthy of leapfrogging Michigan. A bunch of other teams in the 25 to 35 range were tossups; I went with UCLA on a gut.

      And spare me the SEC chest pounding. There is no reason to believe that Michigan would not beat Tennessee, Arkansas, Auburn, Ole Miss, Vandy, Missouri, and Kentucky. And, based on my rankings, I figured 6 SEC schools would beat Michigan, right? So that is 6 SEC schools that I deem “better” than Michigan.

      The only one I am not sure about is Texas A&M. I almost went with them at #25 and perhaps should have. If they win out, they’ll slide up into the top 12-15.