Dullard's College Football Top 25 Week #13

[dullard]

As the football season winds down, the top 25 becomes more important. Here is my version which includes point margin (but it is limited). The top 10 is pretty much unchanged - with one exception, Alabama. Their blowout of LSU thrust Alabama from the center of a 8th place to 12th place tie all the way into a 5th/6th place tie with Ohio State. USC didn't get toppled from their top place, but their Rank advantage over Miami certainly shrunk. One good game by Miami next week should put them finally into first place.

Some other movers of interest. Texas dropped considerably (basically swapped places with Alabama). And of course LSU did too. Colorado dominated my home team and moved up 5 places. Florida and Virginia Tech moved back into the top 25 after a one week shaming - lumped into the bottom 92 teams, but we knew they would be coming back as they always seem to do. Of couse if two teams moved up into the top 25, two teams must leave. This time California and Oregon suffer that fate. But don't dispair (I think there are many Oregon fans here), they are both in the top 28.

Place / Altered Rank / Sch.Diff / Team name
01 / 57.1 / 01 / Southern California
02 / 56.8 / 52 / Miami Florida
03 / 55.6 / 58 / Kansas St.
04 / 53.3 / 46 / Oklahoma
05 / 51.7 / 14 / Alabama
06 / 51.6 / 48 / Ohio St.
07 / 50.9 / 55 / Iowa
08 / 49.6 / 25 / Georgia
09 / 49.4 / 27 / Washington St.
10 / 49.1 / 05 / Florida St.
11 / 48.9 / 33 / Texas
12 / 47.2 / 61 / Maryland
13 / 47.1 / 34 / Penn St.
14 / 46.9 / 19 / Arkansas
15 / 46.3 / 12 / Notre Dame
16 / 46.2 / 07 / UCLA
17 / 45.4 / 110 / Boise St.
18 / 45.3 / 04 / Colorado
19 / 45.1 / 09 / Michigan
20 / 44.8 / 35 / Oregon St.
21 / 43.0 / 67 / Virginia Tech
22 / 42.4 / 43 / Auburn
23 / 41.9 / 13 / Florida
24 / 41.7 / 76 / North Carolina St.
25 / 41.5 / 42 / LSU

 

[SirChadwick]

OMG! So Cal #1......where have I been?

By the way, where did your name Dullard come from? The only thing I can remember is an old Mortal Kombat code from back in the day: Down, Up, Left, Left, A, Right Down... aka Dullard code.

 

[dullard]

Yea, I know people hate my posts with USC up at the top. But their only losses were last minute losses to teams ranked in the top 10 - just one play with a different result in those games and USC would be undefeated. Then the games that USC won they dominated a lot of good teams. USC will drop out of the top spot if Miami wins out - you can be sure of that, but USC certainly deserves a top 5 spot in any poll.

"Dullard" came from me watching other people on forums over the years. Usually there were people with names that were highly exaggerated, but their posts left a lot to be desired. People who post with the name "Einstein" usually can't spell "cat" properly. People with the name "The Hulk" usually ended up being 90 pound weaklings living with their mothers at the age of 35, too wimpy to stand up for themselves. Women named "Beautiful" often had just 3 teeth left, are too fat to fit into a double door, and hair that hasn't been washed in weeks. Basically I thought the more bloated and egotistical the nickname was, the worse the person typing them is. So I went the opposite route. I called myself Dullard, and let my posts speak for themselves.