Ah upset Saturday, that one weekend of the year when the College Football world gets turned upside down and the polls get ever more shaky as pundits, beat writers and SID's with little clue try to piece together what's left of the wreckage into a Top 25 that makes even less sense than it did at the beginning of the year.
This week's Top 25 is no different.
Some thoughts:
- They've got it right at the top. There shouldn't be any debate about #1. They're last year's defending champions and, so far, they've looked better this year than last. Alabama is, until beaten, the top team in the land.
- The "Coaches" poll is worthless - Just worthless. Being tied to the B(C)S it omits Ohio State, and is completed by school's SID's (for the most part) or coaches who don't get a chance to watch a lot of football.
- What to do with West Virginia? On the one hand, they keep winning. On the other hand, how high can you really rank a team with no defense to speak of?
- How good is K-State? This could be a big question going forward for the Big XII. If K-State is really good, then they could win the conference and compete for the B(C)S championship. They don't have the roughest road in front of them, and we still just don't know.
- Michigan? At 25? As a Wolverine fan even I'm confused by this one. Sitting right behind them is an undefeated Ohio team that has a quality win over Penn St. If voters paid attention this wouldn't have happened.
- Overrated: LSU, Texas, USC, Boise St
- Underrated: Clemson, Louisville, Cincinnati, Ohio
- We'll know more after this weekend about:
- aTm and La Tech. The teams play each other at a neutral site.
- Oklahoma and Texas. See above. Less shine on this game than in year's past however.
- South Carolina - At LSU is a tough place to play, even if the Tigers have no offense to speak of.
