Okay. This week there is some shake-up.
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| Rank | Team | Delta |
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| 1 | Alabama |  2 |
| 2 | Texas | 3 |
| 3 | Penn State | 3 |
| 4 | Oklahoma |  3 |
| 5 | Georgia | 2 |
| 6 | Southern Cal | 2 |
| 7 | Florida | 4 |
| 8 | LSU | 4 |
| 9 | Texas Tech | — |
| 10 | Utah | 5 |
| 11 | Ohio State | 1 |
| 12 | Brigham Young | 2 |
| 13 | Oklahoma State | 13 |
| 14 | Kansas | — |
| 15 | Missouri | 13 |
| 16 | North Carolina | 3 |
| 17 | South Florida | — |
| 18 | Virginia Tech | 2 |
| 19 | Boise State | 1 |
| 20 | Ball State | — |
| 21 | Wake Forest | 1 |
| 22 | Michigan State | 1 |
| 23 | California | 2 |
| 24 | Minnesota | 2 |
| 25 | Georgia Tech | 1 |
Have to concede that Penn State looks pretty damn good. Yes, they beat up a lot of cupcakes, but they did it without any mercy. Wisconsin may have been overrated, but they had lost two straight and were at home and desperate. PSU just dismantled them.
Okay, now I believe that Oklahoma State is a pretty good team.
Essentially swapped spots for Utah and BYU. The Cougars may have had a final of 21-3 vs. New Mexico, but I actually watched a lot of that game. BYU was very unimpressive at home against a mediocre MWC opponent.
Vandy gets Croomed and out they go. Buh-bye Northwestern.
Another impressive turnaround is coming out of Minnesota as Tim Brewster has that team going after a hideous 1st season.
UNC has lost their starting QB and now their star receiver and return guy. Yet they are still winning. Butch Davis definitely didn’t lose anything as a college coach while doing time in Cleveland and the NFL Network.
As always reasoned arguments about teams will help shape the final ballot.
Texas Tech is uncomfortably unchanged. It’s just that I don’t feel much better about anyone behind them.
Jesse W.
http://www.churchofcowherd.com
Anyway, the question becomes: can someone with greater coaching acumen come in, take the existing high end talent that Clemson has, and win right away next season? If that happens, and Wanny caps out at 8 wins or less this year, I think we really need to start thinking about replacement. Clemson spent the last decade spinning its wheels, with little to show for it, and there is no reason for us to recreate those mistakes over the next 5 years.
Your being too tough on Pitt and not putting them in. Your bias as a Panther fan unfortunately hurts them in your poll. Think, about it, you have watched every single game the Panthers have played end to end. You ahve seen the good and bad, impressive and unimpressive. As a pitt blogger you have had to focus on many of the question marks and areas of improvement for the team. Because of this you focus on the negative side of things, which you can’t be blamed with, you’ve seen it all. Now, take the other teams in the top 25, I highly doubt that you have seen all or even half of every teams games. Undoubtedly there are teams that you may not have even seen play this season. As a result, you resort to ESPN highlights and coverage of the game. Which mostly shows the good plays. Conservative plays often aren’t shown, disagreebale play calls, typically not shown. So what you get is the great plays a team makes and the result. If that were the case for Pitt I would guess you would rank them as many others do. But, because you see everything and not just the good you leave them out. There are many teams, WFU, UNC, Mich St., Ball State, that if you watched every game you would probably leave them out. There would be things that disgust you about all of the teams and would cause you to think they aren’t good enough. I believe the Panthers deserve the boost into the rankings even b4 beating Navy this weekend. It’s your choice but at least think about it from this perspective.
Now, by contrast (I am going to get killed for this) PSU has not played a ranked team, but they are dominating every team they play from start to finish. That is why with one less loss than us, they appear at No. 3 in the USA today Top 25 poll, and we don’t appear at all.
