Kev's College Football Top 25

[Agent Kev]

The Top 7 this week stay the same as no one distanced themselves from the pack and the team that looked the best was already #1. Auburn, USC and Florida all struggled at times but at the end of the day they won and that's what will be remembered in the record books. The only upset in the Top 10 was Georgia Tech winning impressively on the road at Virginia Tech. Due to this GT vaults up the poll to # 16 and VT takes a dive to #20. Georgia also moves down with another lackluster offensive performance and Oregon and Louisville leapfrog them. Rutgers also makes their debut in the Top 25.

This looks like a really solid week of football with the SEC leading the way with marquee match-ups in Florida/LSU and UGA/Tennessee. Some other interesting match-up in the SEC will be Auburn/Arkansas. The other big game of the weeked is a match-up of one loss teams in Oklahoma and Texas. Oregon and Cal also play in a battle of Top 25 teams in what should be an offensive shootouts. USC gets a challenge from an unlikely team in Washington, who is fresh off a victory two weeks ago against UCLA. Other games of interest are Michigan/Michigan State, Clemson versus undefeated Wake Forest, Iowa/Purdue, Virginia Tech/Boston College, Missouri/Texas Tech and Rutgers/Navy (did I just type that?). Next weekend looks to be really fun.

Top 25:
1 Ohio State (1) 5-0 Next: Bowling Green (3-1)
2 Auburn (2) 5-0 Next: Arkansas (3-1)
3 West Virginia (3) 4-0 Next: @ Mississippi State (1-4)
4 Southern California (4) 4-0 Next: Washington (4-1)
5 Florida (5) 5-0 Next: #9 LSU (4-1)
6 Michigan (6) 5-0 Next: Michigan St (3-2)
7 Texas (7) 4-1 Next: @ #14 Oklahoma (4-1)
8 Louisville (9) 4-0 Next: Friday @ Middle Tennessee State (2-2)
9 LSU (11) 4-1 Next: @ #5 Florida (5-0)
10 Oregon (14) 4-0 Next: @ #21 California (4-1)
11 Georgia (10) 5-0 Next: #13 Tennessee (4-1)
12 Notre Dame (13) 4-1 Next: Stanford (0-5)
13 Tennessee (15) 4-1 Next: @ #11 UGA (5-0)
14 Oklahoma (16) 3-1 Next: #7 Texas (4-1)
15 Clemson (18) 4-1 Next: @ Wake Forest (5-0)
16 Georgia Tech (23) 4-1 Next: Maryland (3-1)
17 Nebraska (17) 4-1 Next: @ Iowa State (3-2)
18 Iowa (12) 4-1 Next: Purdue (4-1)
19 Florida State (20) 3-1 Next: Thurs @ North Carolina State (2-2)
20 Virginia Tech (8) 4-1 Next: @ Boston College (4-1)
21 California (21) 4-1 Next: Oregon (4-0)
22 Boise State (22) 5-0 Next: Louisiana Tech (1-3)
23 Missouri 5-0 (25) Next: @ Texas Tech (4-1)
24 Penn State (24) 3-2 Next: @ Minnesota (2-3)
25 Rutgers 5-0 (-) Next: @ Navy (4-1)

Dropped Out:
TCU (20) 3-1

Next 10:
Boston College 4-1 Next: Oct 12th #20 Virginia Tech (4-1)
Miami 2-2 Next: North Carolina (1-3)
Purdue 4-1 Next: @ #18 Iowa (4-1)
Texas A&M 4-1 Next: @ Kansas (3-2)
Texas Tech 4-1 Next: Missouri (5-0)
TCU 3-1 Next: Thurs @ Utah (3-2)
UCLA 3-1 Next: Arizona (2-3)
Wake Forest 5-0 Next: #15 Clemson (4-1)
Washington 4-1 Next: @ USC (4-0)
Wisconsin 4-1 Next: Northwestern (2-3)

5 Games to watch:
#9 LSU (4-1) @ #5 Florida (5-0)
#7 Texas (4-1) @ #14 Oklahoma (3-1)
#13 Tennessee (4-1) @ #11 UGA (5-0)
#10 Oregon (4-0) @ #21 California (4-1)
Washington (4-1) @ #4 USC (4-0)

[IWSfan4life]

V-Tech really disappointed me and Michigan and LSU looked as good as ever. I'll just give my top 10, you pretty much covered the reasoning.

1. Ohio St
2. Auburn
3. Michigan
4. WVU
5. USC
6. Florida
7. LSU
8. Texas
9. Louisville
10. Notre Dame

The top is really crowded, and there are a lot of big tests left.

-Jason

[Agent Kev]

Definitely a tough pill to swallow in the Ga/Tenn game seeing Tennessee come in and win. Kudos to Tennessee as they won a hard fought game but Georgia made the fatal mistakes which resulted in 4 turnovers when it mattered (5 in all) and each one led directly to a Tennessee touchdown. Erik Ainge played a fantastic game and really took advantage of the weak zone that Georgia played the entire game. The game was definitely a roller coaster ride as Georgia sprung out to a 24-7 lead and looked like it wouldn't look back but Tennessee put up a TD before halftime to halt the momentum. Tennessee then owned the 3rd quarter and 4th quarter despite Thomas Brown trying to get the Dawgs energized with their second special teams return for a touchdown. Story of the game was definitely the turnovers and Tennessee capitalizing on them. Georgia's just got to regroup now and win their next two games before seeing if they can ruin Florida's season.

Kind of funny when the Tennesse faithful sprung up with an "overrated" chant near the end of the game. I know it was in the spur of the moment but when you beat a team in the Top 10 when you chant "overrated" you are basically diminshing your victory. Not sure why anyone would chant that unless you throw up a 57-0 score on someone and they are a bitter rival. It might come since over the last five years Georgia has kind of taken Tennessee's spot as Florida's top opponent in battling for the SEC east title but it looks like Tennessee is back this year. Hopefully Florida slips up somewhere and the race gets more interesting since this is only Tennessee's first conference win of the year.