Here is my ranking of the top ten college football teams: 1. USC 2. Utah 3. Florida 4. Texas
5. Oklahoma 6. Alabama 7. TCU 8. Oregon 9. Penn State 10. Ohio State
This ranking is, of course, irrelevant as Florida has been declared the national champion. But I think if USC were to play any team tomorrow, it would be the favorite. Of course Florida would have had only 2 days rest but that's beside the point. USC was down in the polls and computer rankings compare to some of the one loss teams because the PAC-10 is down this year during the regular season. But its top 5 teams prove otherwise as they went 5-0 in the bowl games. Particulary Oregon's win over OK State was impressive. The Big12 was not impressive as Texas barely beat Ohio State which was clobbered by USC earlier. Texas Tech which beat Texas was humiliated by Mississppi. The SEC was not bad but even there Alabama was beat up worse by Utah than by Florida. Florida's win over OK was not that impressive. Lots of penalties and unexplainable timeouts and self destructions on both sides. So I vote Utah over Florida.
Penn State and Ohio State got into the top ten by default as a team like Texas Tech just looked terrible in its bowl game. The Big Ten does not deserve anyone up there really given its one win bowl record this year. They also had trouble beating their little brothers in the MAC. Witness Mich.'s loss to Toledo. And the MAC lost all of their bowl games against mediocre competition. I think the Big Ten needs to recruit more in Calif., Texas, and Florida if they are going to be competitive in the future.
Friday, January 09, 2009
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We need to end this debate and have a playoff system. Does anybody really care that the season will be too long? I can't agree with your rankings either.
ReplyDeleteI have been mildly impressed with Utah, but there's no way they are the number 2 team. They deserve to be in the top five though because they got through the season unbeaten but they play in a weak conference against weak opponents and they barely beat a bad Michigan team!
My top 5: 1)Florida 2)USC 3)Utah 4)Texas 5)Oklahoma
Just based on watching these teams, I think Texas Tech is still a very good team and probably deserves a top 10 consideration. Ohio State was quite good at the end of the year and could have one that game against Texas too, so I would have them somewhere in the top 10.
-LBOAYM