This college football seson has seen it share of great games and surprises. Alabama stills holds onto the Number 1 ranking in my weekly poll. However, there were some position changes with GREAT FBS programs below Alabama, who could and CAN pose a challenge to Alabama. Alabama (8-0) travels to Baton Rouge this week to play (5-2) LSU. Do not be surpired if Aabama falls out of the small group of 0-loss programs after playing at LSU. This college fotball season has seen its share of upsets, surprises and great story lines.
With four weeks of college football left in the regular season schedule, excluding the traditional Army/Navy game, we are now down to five 0-loss teams left and still Western Michigan is not receiveing any credit in the weekly polls outside of mine. I rank the Western Michigan Broncos 4th in my poll. The published polls of the AMWAY Coaches Poll (a.k.a. USA Today Coaches Poll), and the AP Poll has Western Michiagn ranked 18th and 17th. When the CFP Polls are announced November 1st live on the “expert” sports channel, I bet Western Michigan is not ranked any higher than 20th. Just curious of those FIVE 0-loss programs left, who will remain standing at 0-losses? My bet is if Western Michigan is the ONLY remaining 0-loss FBS program standing at the end of the season, then the very in-experienced CFP committee won’t even give them a sniff or credibilty to compete for the “National Championship”, the $50 Million Dollars at stake and national acccolades for college football because of “CFP Protocol”. Can anyons say Sherman Act breach of anti-trust.
As of the completion of this past weekends games, 37 FBS programs have earned bowl eligibilty. with a group of 24 5-win FBS programs waiting in the wings within the coming two weeks to secure bowl eligibilty. If all 24 5-win programs win this week and or next, that makes the bowl eligible group total to be 61. Right behind that group of 5-win programs, is a group of 25 4-win programs who are working towards bowl eligibilty. If all 25 of those 4-win programs earn bowl eligibilty, then we have a group of 86 FBS programs eligible for post season bowls and not enough slots. My guess is, that someone gets left out.
As we get towards the end of the college football regular season, you will find that FBS programs will maintain thier rankings the majority of the time. Wyoming (6-2) makes my Top 25 rankings this week after pulling off a (30-28) win over Boise State, now (7-1). There were some other great games this past weekend, besides the Wyoming win over Boise State. If I were to select my field of 16 FBS teams for my mock playoff format, then my research and data holds true. The field would possess 11 Power Five Programs and 5 Group of Five Porgrams.
Here is this weeks weekly rankings:
| RANK | CONF | TEAM | RECORD | OPP W/L | OPP % | CONF W/L | CONF % |
| 1 | SEC | ALABAMA | (8-0) | (39-27) | 0.591 | (12-13) | 0.480 |
| 2 | B10 | MICHIGAN | (8-0) | (32-33) | 0.492 | (8-17) | 0.320 |
| 3 | ACC | CLEMSON | (8-0) | (37-18) | 0.673 | (11-14) | 0.440 |
| 4 | MAC | WESTERN MICHIGAN | (8-0) | (27-32) | 0.458 | (9-10) | 0.474 |
| 5 | P12 | WASHINGTON | (8-0) | (29-36) | 0.446 | (9-18) | 0.333 |
| 6 | B10 | OHIO STATE | (7-1) | (35-29) | 0.547 | (12-13) | 0.480 |
| 7 | MWC | BOISE STATE | (7-1) | (33-30) | 0.524 | (10-7) | 0.588 |
| 8 | ACC | LOUISVILLE | (7-1) | (31-33) | 0.484 | (11-15) | 0.423 |
| 9 | B10 | NEBRASKA | (7-1) | (29-36) | 0.446 | (10-15) | 0.400 |
| 10 | SEC | TEXAS A&M | (7-1) | (33-23) | 0.589 | (14-11) | 0.560 |
| 11 | MWC | SAN DIEGO STATE | (7-1) | (20-39) | 0.339 | (5-15) | 0.250 |
| 12 | AAC | HOUSTON | (7-2) | (34-29) | 0.540 | (13-15) | 0.464 |
| 13 | AAC | SOUTH FLORIDA | (7-2) | (32-33) | 0.492 | (11-14) | 0.440 |
| 14 | P12 | UTAH | (7-2) | (31-34) | 0.477 | (13-18) | 0.419 |
| 15 | SEC | FLORIDA | (6-1) | (26-31) | 0.456 | (9-16) | 0.360 |
| 16 | B12 | WEST VIRGINIA | (6-1) | (25-23) | 0.521 | (11-9) | 0.550 |
| 17 | SBC | TROY | (6-1) | (25-23) | 0.521 | (5-12) | 0.294 |
| 18 | B12 | BAYLOR | (6-1) | (17-31) | 0.354 | (6-14) | 0.300 |
| 19 | B10 | WISCONSIN | (6-2) | (41-23) | 0.641 | (16-9) | 0.640 |
| 20 | B10 | PENN STATE | (6-2) | (43-23) | 0.652 | (15-10) | 0.600 |
| 21 | SEC | AUBURN | (6-2) | (36-26) | 0.581 | (10-12) | 0.455 |
| 22 | B12 | OKLAHOMA | (6-2) | (34-31) | 0.523 | (9-16) | 0.36 |
| 23 | SBC | APPLACHIAN STATE | (6-2) | (32-32) | 0.500 | (8-9) | 0.471 |
| 24 | P12 | COLORADO | (6-2) | (39-26) | 0.600 | (11-17) | 0.393 |
| 25 | MWC | WYOMING | (6-2) | (33-24) | 0.579 | (8-9) | 0.471 |
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Let the last four weeks of college football be fun, crazy, exciting and full of surprises.