Monday, September 9, 2013

HTR's Top 25: Week 3


I didn't do this last week, so might as well start here post-Week 2. My top 25:


Rank
Team
1
Alabama
2
Oregon
3
Ohio State
4
Clemson
5
Stanford
6
Texas A&M 
7
LSU
8
Florida State
9
Louisville
10
Georgia 
11
Michigan
12
South Carolina
13
Oklahoma State
14
Miami (FL)
15
Oklahoma
16
Northwestern 
17
Wisconsin 
18
UCLA 
19
Washington
20
Nebraska 
21
Baylor 
22
Florida
23
Ole Miss
24
TCU
25
Notre Dame

Bullets: 

  • As always, the bottom five of the top 25 is a jumbled mess of interchangeability. 
  • In the Big Ten, Wisconsin once again rolled against a hilariously overmatched opponent. Next up for the Badgers? 2-0 Arizona State, in Tempe. Iowa won! Purdue didn't lose to Indiana State. Nebraska only gave up 13 points this week to Southern Miss. The Huskers also face a Pac 12 team this week (UCLA), but they'll get them in Lincoln. Michigan State's offensive issues are well-publicized, Illinois actually look pretty good against what seemed to have been at least an okay Cincinnati squad, the Buckeyes rolled against San Diego State but Braxton Miller got hurt in the process. Penn State demolished poor Eastern Michigan, Minnesota crushed New Mexico State, and the only B1G loss of the week came from Indiana, who lost at home to Navy, 41-35. 
    • Michigan of course won, and, last but not least: the Northwestern Fighting Warrior Poets emerged victorious in the Prose Bowl against Syracuse, 48-27. M-E-D! I-L-L! Ahem, *straightens tie*. All right then. But first, Glopknar: 
  • A very nice bounceback win for Mark Richt's UGA squad. Aaron Murray was quite efficient, going 17/23 on the day for 309 yards, four touchdown passes and zero picks. That'll get it done. With Florida once again lacking any sort of offensive ability, UGA should come away with the SEC East. 
  • I just don't know what to do with Louisville. Teddy Bridgewater is very obviously a big time talent and would be in any conference, but it's hard to feel too bullish about this team given their schedule, which is truly abominable
  • Washington State beat USC, 10-7. Also, Oklahoma and West Virginia faced off and scored a combined 23 points (OU won 16-7). Nothing makes sense. 
  • All the talk this week will be about Alabama-Texas A&M, and rightfully so. But the most important games in Big Ten land will be the contests against the PAC 12 (Wisconsin-ASU and Nebraska-UCLA). Win both of those and the conference is looking pretty good. Oh, also, the Buckeyes travel to Cal, but that should be an easy win, even if Miller sits that one out. 

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