After a week off from hard hits and Herbert touchdowns, your Oregon Football team has moved up just a tad in the Associated Press’ weekly rankings, from 18th to 17th. The week of nothingness for the Ducks was certainly unparallel to the rest of the country as the week as a whole was wild. From Georgia Tech’s 66-31 victory on Friday to Utah’s upset of Stanford, and everything in between, a lot went down.
In the wake of another great weekend of college football, here are your rankings heading into week 7, via the Associated Press:
- Alabama
- Georgia
- Ohio State
- Clemson
- Notre Dame
- West Virginia
- Washington
- Penn State
- Texas
- UCF
- Oklahoma
- Michigan
- LSU
- Florida
- Wisconsin
- Miami (FL)
- Oregon
- Kentucky
- Colorado
- NC State
- Auburn
- Texas A&M
- South Florida
- Mississippi State
- Cincinnati
Others receiving votes: Iowa 87, Stanford 59, Washington St. 46, San Diego St. 24, TCU 20, Appalachian St. 11, Utah 9, Utah State 5, South Carolina 2, Hawaii 1
As you can see, the Ducks are now the 17th rated team in the country, sandwiched between Kentucky and Miami (FL).
Conferences
SEC, will ya calm down, please. EIGHT TEAMS! EIGHT! This one conference has over half of its teams ranked in the Top 25. That’s about a third of total ranked teams. And 8 of the 14 teams in the entire conference are ranked. That’s ridiculous. Good luck being in that conference.
The Pac-12, on the other hand, has just 3 teams ranked. Oregon, along with next week’s foe Washington, and the Colorado Buffaloes.
Most Underrated Teams
Texas A&M: Texas A&M is one of three ranked teams (along with SEC counterparts Auburn and Mississippi St.) with two losses. Who did those losses come against? Alabama and Clemson. Excusable. If not for some ref malpractice, the Aggies would’ve defeated Clemson. Saturday night, their defense handled a potent Kentucky offense led by Heisman hopeful Benny Snell Jr. UK ran 0 plays in the A&M half of the field until the overtime period. This Aggies squad is legit. Despite two losses, they are honestly probably a top 10-15 caliber team.
Notre Dame: Even though they are the fifth ranked team in the country, I think their resume perhaps should have them ahead of Georgia, Clemson and Ohio State. They’ve beat three (at the time) ranked teams already — Michigan, Va Tech, Stanford — and blew the doors off Virginia Tech and Stanford. Despite some early season unfocus in games against Vanderbilt and Ball State where they struggled to win, the Fighting Irish have showed up when it matters. They look playoff-bound, especially since they’ll avoid the challenge of a conference championship.
Most Overrated Teams
Colorado: Sorry, Pac-12 brethren, I’m not impressed with you whatsoever. Here’s a number to chew on: 6-22. That is the combined record of Colorado’s opponents this year. They haven’t played anyone! Seriously, my high school football team has played tougher competition than Colorado’s pathetic schedule. And before playing mediocre ASU, their opponents were even worse, with a combined record of 1-16. Colorado has to prove that they can beat someone of any quality at all before I go patting them on the back. They are very overrated.
Wisconsin: How are they even ranked? Seriously. They lost to BYU…at home! BYU STINKS! Oh, well since they’re ranked in the top 15 perhaps, like any reasonable man would assume, they’ve beaten some quality football teams. Sorry, they haven’t. Their best win? Iowa. Unranked Iowa. Plenty of one-loss (hell, even two-loss) teams behind them have done way more than them. I’m just plain puzzled. Why do preseason narratives continue to dictate AP rankings? I’m ready for the playoff rankings.