The Blue Workhorse Week 6 College Football Top 25
Oct.08, 2008 in
NCAA Football
Week 5 was a week of upsets with six of the AP’s Top 25 falling victim.
Week 6, however, was relatively tame. Only three teams fell, and none were major national contenders.
The major story of Week 6 came out of Nashville as Vanderbilt came back to defeat Auburn and get their first win as a ranked team in over half a century.
Another week means another re-evalution, and thus, we give you our new The Blue Workhorse College Football Top 25 after Week 6. Some things to note from this week’s rankings:
- Last week, every single position in the Top 25 saw a new name beside it. This week, the top 11 remain the same except for USC and Texas Tech switching spots.
- With a 4-1 record, Michigan State bounds into the Top 25 at #18. Also moving into the Top 25 for the first time is North Carolina after their 38-12 win over Connecticut. Both teams have an opportunity to prove their new rankings with games against tough opponents: MSU heads to 5-0 Northwestern while UNC hosts 4-1 Notre Dame.
- Biggest gainer: Michigan State was the biggest gainer, but of the teams that were previously ranked, Vanderbilt and Wake Forest each moved up 4 spots.
- Biggest loser: Wisconsin dropped 11 spots last week and continued their fall this week by slipping from the rankings, but the biggest losers were Auburn and South Florida, who fell 8 and 7 spots, respectively. South Florida fell to unranked Pittsburgh and Auburn, once again, wasted an opportunity to be impressive.
- The non-BCS strikes: Four non-BCS teams remain in the Top 25.
- Teams by conference: Big XII - 6; SEC - 6; Big 10 - 4; ACC - 3; MWC - 2; Pac 10 - 1; WAC - 1; Big East - 1; C-USA - 1.
- Despite having a higher point total this week, the Golden Hurricanes of Tulsa fall one spot.
What the Voters Have to Say:
- DRang: “Penn State could be the most fundamentally sound team in all of America.”
- Heisman: “I am now a card-carrying member of the Vanderbilt bandwagon. Although Auburn is not the team I expected them to be, especially on offense, it was a big win for Coach Johnson and the Commodore program. Tony Franklin better hope he doesn’t offer a money back guarantee on his offense in a box.”
- Rosenblogger: “A win this week versus LSU, puts the Gators right back in the national title mix.”
- Shotgun Spratling: “Every other Top 25 team could have lost, and I still wouldn’t have moved Kansas up at all this week. A two point win over Iowa State? Ok, maybe I can forgive that. Being down by 20 at halftime to Iowa State? Unexcusable.”
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| #1 | Oklahoma | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 99 |
| #2 | Alabama | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 93 |
| #3 | LSU | 4 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 92 |
| #4 | Missouri | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 91 |
| #5 | Texas | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 85 |
| #6 | Penn St. | 8 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 78 |
| #7 | USC (+1) | 6 | 8 | 7 | 10 | 73 |
| #8 | Texas Tech (-1) | 7 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 72 |
| #9 | BYU | 9 | 9 | 11 | 8 | 67 |
| #10 | Florida | 12 | 7 | 9 | 11 | 65 |
| #11 | Georgia | 10 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 64 |
| #12 | Ohio State (+1) | 11 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 57 |
| #13 | Vanderbilt (+4) | 16 | 13 | 14 | 13 | 48 |
| #14 | Utah (+2) | 15 | 15 | 15 | 16 | 43 |
| #15 | Kansas | 14 | 14 | 13 | 21 | 42 |
| #16 | Virginia Tech (+2) | 13 | 16 | 19 | 17 | 39 |
| #17 | Boise State (+2) | 17 | 21 | 16 | 14 | 36 |
| #18 | Michigan State (NR) | 25 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 25 |
| #19 | South Florida (-7) | 18 | - | 21 | 19 | 20 |
| #20 | Wake Forest (+4) | 21 | 19 | 25 | 20 | 19 |
| #21 | Oklahoma State (NR) | 19 | - | 17 | 24 | 18 |
| #22 | Auburn (-8) | 20 | 24 | 22 | 23 | 15 |
| #23 | North Carolina (NR) | 22 | - | 20 | 22 | 14 |
| #24 | Tulsa (-1) | - | - | 24 | 15 | 13 |
| #25 | Illinois (NR) | - | 17 | - | - | 9 |
Others receiving votes: Georgia Tech, Wisconsin, Northwestern, Kentucky, Pittsburgh
Dropped out: Wisconsin (LW: 20), Oregon (LW: 21), Fresno State (LW: 21)
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October 8th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
I’m just glad someone has finally jumped on the Tulsa bandwagon with me. I was getting lonely drinking all by myself on the raggedy Golden Hurricane wagon.
October 10th, 2008 at 1:28 am
Seems i was right about Wake Forrest being over rated after their loss last week and tonight slipping by another horrible ACC team. As sad as that makes me… but none the less Shotgun I am proud that you are supporting the Tulsa Golden Hurricane…. I will say that David Johnson’s ungodly video game stats have to come to an end soon, but they won’t have a contest until Arkansas… Which even if they win it won’t prove much because Arkansas is horrible. I hope to see Vandy keep rising and rising, but you have to watch out for Tennessee the team buster… they will eventually pull out that win against a good opponent so Fulmer can keep his job…
October 10th, 2008 at 4:14 am
I completely agree Twink:
- Wake Forest is overrated, but someone has to win the ACC (maybe GT but more realistically probably VT who are undefeated with Tyrod Taylor at QB this season)
- Johnson’s stats are very reminiscent to numbers I would put up throwing to the created WR Shotgun Spratling on NCAA.
- The win against Arkansas won’t say much, but it will still be a win over a SEC opponent. Tulsa will likely still be undefeated when they play ECU in the C-USA championship game.
- And yes, Tennessee will somehow pull off the upset and everyone will back off of Fulmer’s belly for yet another year. I’m just hoping it isn’t this weekend against my Dawgs.