College football is a great sport and one of the reasons is because you never know how things are going to turn out. That's mostly because there is so much based on emotions and they vary from week to week. Ole Miss layed an egg against Tennessee last week and they fight LSU in Baton Rouge to the wire. Mississippi State got demolished last week at Alabama and they played a very hot Arkansas team to 2 overtimes. Who knows what will happen, I don't. That MSU was a very entertaining game and even though State lost I'm not to broken up about it. The combined record of the 4 teams State has lost to is 39-5.
I went 6-0 on my SEC picks and 1-2 on the national ones. I'm 71-16 this year in the SEC and 36-26 on the others. Here's my power rankings:
1. Auburn, 11-0 (7-0) - Next week's game has Auburn heading into Tuscaloosa in the same position Alabama came into Auburn last year...Heisman candidate and everything.
2. LSU, 10-1 (6-1) - They survived again. Next week at Arkansas could be for the right to play in a BCS bowl.
3. Alabama, 9-2 (5-2) - The Iron Bowl is going to be huge. Trent Richardson will have had 3 weeks to rest and they should be at full strength.
4. Arkansas, 9-2 (5-2) - If Knile Davis had been a part of this offense at the beginning of the season like he is now, would the Hogs be 11-0 or 10-1?
5. South Carolina, 8-3 (5-3) - Impressive spanking of Troy. The key next week is beating rival Clemson without anyone getting hurt.
6. Mississippi State, 7-4 (3-4) - I thought State played a great game vs. Arkansas it just didn't end with a W. Got to regroup for a pivitol game at Ole Miss with bowl positioning, recruiting implications, and bragging rights on the line.
7. Florida, 7-4 (4-4) - I thought there was a chance they could struggle with App. State but they didn't. I might be pulling against them next week at Florida State becuase it will have an effect of MSU's bowl position.
8. Georgia, 5-6 (3-5) - This hasn't been a good year for UGA but a win vs. GA Tech next week would go a long way towards healing the wounds. A loss and the entire fanbase is going to jump off a cliff.
9. Kentucky, 6-5 (2-5) - The Wildcats had this week off to prepare for Tennessee. This has got to be the year they break the 25-game losing streak.
10. Tennessee, 5-6 (2-5) - Tyler Brey has lead them from the abyess to the brink of bowl eligibility. Huge game next week vs. Kentucky.
11. Ole Miss, 4-7 (1-6) - This year has not gone well for the Rebs but they still almost beat LSU...it's amazing how they can play them so well but State cannot beat them.
12. Vanderbilt, 2-9 (1-7) - I read a few articles last week that questioned Vandy's commitment to the football program. I believe they don't have much of it and if that's the case then they might as well keep Robbie Caldwell...but if they are going to let him go then they need to show more of an effort to support football from a University standpoint.
My Top 5:
1. Auburn, 11-0
2. Oregon, 10-0/Boise State, 10-0
4. TCU, 11-0
5. LSU, 10-1
I was throughly impressed by Boise State beating Fresno State 51-0. Beating a team like Fresno that bad tells me you are a good team...and holding them to no points is amazing. So to prevent myself from being prisoner of the moment I looked at their schedules and the final scores to see who I though should be ranked higher, Oregon or Boise. Oregon's best win was at home vs. Stanford (10-1, would be my #6 team) - very impressive win. Boise's best win is the virtual road game vs. Virginia Tech (9-2, ranked #13 in the AP) - slightly impressive? The rest of both their schedules is pretty unimpressive. Oregon has played better teams, scoring over 50 points on almost all of them and giving up 20-30 points. Boise State has played lesser competition and scored over 50 points on almost all of them and giving up 0-15 points. So it looks like they are pretty even except for the win over Stanford is better then VA Tech, but Boise did beat Oregon in '08 and '09 so I'm just going to have to call it a dead heat for #2 in my book.
JB
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