Georgia (7-0) is the newly ranked number one FBS team in my third weekly college football ranking poll. At this point in time of the college football season, Georgia is statistically better than any other (7-0) FBS teams in multiple categories, in which I use to assist in ranking weekly. However, as the season winds down and progresses forward, anything can happen with many great remaining scheduled games left to be played in many conferences. Within my rankings, there are still many of the ranked FBS programs that have not had a bye week yet. With at least six weeks to go in the college football season, ANYTHING can happen.
With the season just past the half way point, there are eight (8) 0-loss programs left and of those eight remaining programs, only two will compete against each other in the regular season. Those two programs are Central Florida and South Florida. Both will meet at the end of the regualr season in the American Athletic Conference. The other remaining 0-loss programs wont possibly meet until the conference championship games and that’s if they remain at 0-losses. In addition to those 0-loss programs, there are still 18, 1-loss programs. There is plenty of college football left in the remaining part of the schedule in the upcoming weeks. NO ONE really knows how the season will play out, not even the “experts” of college football. Trust me there are still many great games left on the schedule and UPSETS are going to occur. Just let the season play out before you start making guesses into who will be in the playoff picture.
The one primary problem with the sports media “experts” from ESPN and FOX is that every week before and after college football games are played, they believe they are entitled to select which four (4) FBS teams will compete for the CFP. The funny thing is they change their minds weekly and sometimes daily just trying to be right. I say at this point of the season, pick four and stick with it. Your job is not to play “Carnac The Wonderful” and always guess what will happen. Maybe guessing wrong should effect their employment status when they find it difficut in selecting between vanilla or choclate ice cream.
For this weeks rankings, I am only going to post the Top 25 in rank order, with team names and overall records. I will return to posting the important statistical data next week. I have the updated data. However, it’s interesting that between the AP voters and the Coaches Poll that they never match or use the same data I do. I have no vested interests in who is ranked where, just need to rank each FBS program with a fair ranking. All of which takes knowing what data points to use in evaluations.
Here is this weeks rankings:
| A | B |
| 1 | GEORGIA (7-0) |
| 2 | ALABAMA (7-0) |
| 3 | WISCONSIN (6-0) |
| 4 | PENN STATE (6-0) |
| 5 | TCU (6-0) |
| 6 | SOUTH FLORIDA(6-0) |
| 7 | USC (6-1) |
| 8 | OHIO STATE (6-1) |
| 9 | SAN DIEGO STATE (6-1) |
| 10 | NC STATE (6-1) |
| 11 | CLEMSON (6-1) |
| 12 | WASHINGTON STATE (6-1) |
| 13 | MIAMI (FLA)(5-0) |
| 14 | CENTRAL FLORIDA (5-0) |
| 15 | OKLAHOMA STATE (5-1) |
| 16 | MARSHALL (5-1) |
| 17 | NAVY (5-1) |
| 18 | OKLAHOMA (5-1) |
| 19 | MICHIGAN STATE (5-1) |
| 20 | NOTRE DAME (5-1) |
| 21 | MICHIGAN (5-1) |
| 22 | TOLEDO (5-1) |
| 23 | MEMPHIS (5-1) |
| 24 | KENTUCKY (5-1) |
| 25 | VIRGINIA (5-1) |
Honorable Mentioned: Virginia Tech (5-1), Stanford (5-2), Army (5-2), Ohio (5-2), Colorado State (5-2), Auburn (5-2), LSU (5-2), South Carolina (5-2) and Texas A&M (5-2).
There are many SEC programs at (5-2), but its the programs from one specific division within the conference. This will change as the weeks play out.
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