The college football season is now heading into the clubhouse turn and there are still MANY great scheduled games to be played to determine who will be bowl eligible, playoff bound and entered into my mock field of (16) college football playoff format. At the top of my weekly rankings nothing has changed, Ohio State and Michigan State are split at Number 1 and Number 2 atop the PMT and PMT+ polls. There was some shuffleing among the other (23) ranked FBS teams. Both had bye weeks this past Saturday as they head into the final (4) game run to end the college football season at the end of November. There are probably still 50+ great games scheduled that are going to determine who’s in and who’s out of the playoffs.
The American Athletic Conference (AAC) has been playing very competitive college football and are not receiving any credibility from the sports media except for the small interests showing. And when the AAC teams lose or fall from the 0-loss rankings, the media loses interests or comments with the “I told you so” comments. Temple (7-1) fell from the 0-loss list after losing in the last 2-minutes to Notre Dame 24-20. Houston (8-0) slaps the Schedule Easy Conference around by shutting out the “great” SEC and Vanderbilt 34-0, to remain in that 0- loss group. Memphis (8-0) starts slow versus Tulane (2-6) but finishes strong to show they belong in the CFP talk. Finally, Navy (6-1) increases thier chances to stay in the 1-loss group. If I recall is not the AAC (2-1) versus the Schedule Easy Conference (SEC) and should be by all rights be (3-0) versus the SEC. Wins versus a pre-season ranked Mississippi, a dominating win versus Vanderbilt, Missouri stuggled to win verses Connecticut by kicking the winning field goal at the end of the game and an added note of Toledo (7-0) going into Arkansas and winning. The fans and Schedule Easy Conference media, staff and coaches say “top to bottom” the SEC can beat anyone and anytime. What’s it like to eat crow? The AAC and Group of 5 FBS members belongs in the discussion of the CFP committee and one of those 4-spots.
What the main stream media fails to understand is their are (128) FBS programs, (10) Conferences and (3) Independents competing for the (4) CFP positions but the CFP is only monitoring or selecting from the Power 5 FBS group. No matter what Memphis, Houston or Toledo do this season and remain a 0-loss program at the end, they will never get a “fair and just” opportunity to compete for the $50 Million dollar prize and the right to be called national champions in college football at the end of the season come January 2016. Listening to ESPN radio, or ESPN TV the media members on the air or behind the scenes have been brain washed that only the FBS programs from the Power 5 are “entitled” to compete for that prize. I would love the opportuinty to call into one or all of those ESPN radio or TV shows, ask multiple questions, serve and volley in an intellectual manner and watch thier heads explode with the knowledge and how well versed in this topic I am. Enough for now.. on to the rankings and numbers.
As of November 1; there are (41) FBS programs that are bowl eligible with upto (17) more possibly eligible in the next two weeks. There are now (11) 0-loss FBS members remaining, (11) 1-loss FBS members and (15) 2-loss FBS members. Intersting how the games play themselves out and that the media are only using “crystal ball” methods to impose thier “expertise” on the topic of college footbal of who’s in and who’s out. Another interesting statistic is there are (2) 0-win programs left; Kansas and Central Florida. Will they remove the (0) from the win column?
As of November 1, 2015 here are the (2) groups of standing of my PMT and PMT+ polls.
Group 1 PMT Rankings
| OHIO STATE | (8-0) | ↔ |
| MICHIGAN STATE | (8-0) | ↔ |
| MEMPHIS | (8-0) | ↑ 2 |
| CLEMSON | (8-0) | ↑ 3 |
| IOWA | (8-0) | ↑ 3 |
| TCU | (8-0) | ↑ 3 |
| OKLAHOMA STATE | (8-0) | ↑ 4 |
| HOUSTON | (8-0) | ↑ 4 |
| TOLEDO | (7-0) | ↓ 4 |
| LSU | (7-0) | ↓ 4 |
| BAYLOR | (7-0) | ↓ 1 |
| MARSHALL | (8-1) | ↑ 1 |
| NOTRE DAME | (7-1) | ↑ 2 |
| TEMPLE | (7-1) | ↓11 |
| UTAH | (7-1) | ↑ 1 |
| STANFORD | (7-1) | ↑ 2 |
| OKLAHOMA | (7-1) | ↔ |
| FLORIDA | (7-1) | ↑ 1 |
| APPALACHIAN STATE | (7-1) | ↑ 2 |
| FLORIDA STATE | (7-1) | ↑ 3 |
| ALABAMA | (7-1) | ↓ 7 |
| NORTH CAROLINA | (7-1) | ↑ 2 |
| NAVY | (6-1) | ↑ 3 |
| WESTERN KENTUCKY | (7-2) | ↑ 2 |
| PENN STATE | (7-2) | ↑ 1 |
| NEXT FIVE | ||
| WISCONSIN | (7-2) | ↑ |
| BOISE STATE | (7-2) | ↑ |
| MISSISSIPPI | (7-2) | ↑ |
| BOWLING GREEN | (6-2) | ↓ |
| MICHIGAN | (6-2) | ↑ |
Group 2 PMT+ Rankings
| MICHIGAN STATE | (8-0) | ↔ |
| OHIO STATE | (8-0) | ↔ |
| CLEMSON | (8-0) | ↑ 2 |
| IOWA | (8-0) | ↑ 3 |
| MEMPHIS | (8-0) | ↑ 3 |
| TCU | (8-0) | ↑ 3 |
| OKLAHOMA STATE | (8-0) | ↑ 4 |
| HOUSTON | (8-0) | ↑ 4 |
| TOLEDO | (7-0) | ↓ 5 |
| LSU | (7-0) | ↓ 4 |
| BAYLOR | (7-0) | ↓ 1 |
| MARSHALL | (8-1) | ↑ 2 |
| NOTRE DAME | (7-1) | ↑ 4 |
| FLORIDA | (7-1) | ↑ 2 |
| UTAH | (7-1) | ↔ |
| STANFORD | (7-1) | ↑ 2 |
| TEMPLE | (7-1) | ↓ 13 |
| OKLAHOMA | (7-1) | ↔ |
| ALABAMA | (7-1) | ↓ 6 |
| APPALACHIAN STATE | (7-1) | ↑ 1 |
| FLORIDA STATE | (7-1) | ↑ 1 |
| NORTH CAROLINA | (7-1) | ↑ 1 |
| NAVY | (6-1) | ↑ 3 |
| PENN STATE | (7-2) | ↑ 1 |
| WESTERN KENTUCKY | (7-2) | ↑ 1 |
| NEXT FIVE | ||
| WISCONSIN | (7-2) | ↔ |
| MISSISSIPPI | (7-2) | ↑ |
| BOISE STATE | (7-2) | ↑ |
| MICHIGAN | (6-2) | ↑ |
| UCLA | (6-2) | ↑ |
The college football season the next 4 weeks will be the most exciting part of the season, rivalries, great conference games and lots of upsets and programs you thought would be in the playoffs now out of the disussion.
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